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Packard Plant in Detroit
I found this interesting, maybe others will too.
http://www.freep.com/interactive/art...parison-photos
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Re: Packard Plant in Detroit
It was thanks for posting Gary.
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Re: Packard Plant in Detroit
Outstanding photos and History lesson. Then came the unions and ........
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Re: Packard Plant in Detroit
That is so cool!
What a shame. JimR
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Re: Packard Plant in Detroit
I listen to Detroit radio, I guess it' s become a bit of a joke that Packard plant has been sold so many times , but nobody comes up with any money. ---Trevor
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Re: Packard Plant in Detroit
I read a post on this site many years ago, of a young woman realizing the damage her and her generation had cause her father's beloved Ford plant, by exercising her rights to buy German (BMW) automobile and to forgo the company that had put food on her table and sent her to school to the fruit of her father's labor. Wonder if anyone remembered this well written apology. Claude Ruel
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Re: Packard Plant in Detroit
Remember driving a neighbor's 54 Packard back in 1966, I was amazed how plush it was. Even with all the muscle cars around I recall my own amazement upon looking at that straight eight and hulking body lines.
Thanks for posting...
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Re: Packard Plant in Detroit
The latest news is that the 40 acre Packard complex was sold to a developer from Peru, he has until December 18 to finish paying for the 405,000 dollar sale price.
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Dick.... Are you baiting me again. ?..All right, I'll bite.. The rank and file just assembled them .The various systems did not work. They did not start, when they did they did not run right. The emission systems made them pulsate, they rusted out as soon as they were drove off the lots, they broke down entirely too much, and on, and on, and on.. The rank and file just did what they were told, and used the parts they were told to. All the members do is bolt the cars together. The cars were engineered horribly. Remember, at the time, the Big 3 was loaded. It wasn't until the problem's with their product started rearing its ugly head that the sales collapsed. It takes five years to engineer a car. The damage was already done. And then after the problem was discovered, they were in either denial, or just stubbornness about remedying it. Where do you come up with the Unions were all to blame?. Are they somewhat to blame? Yea, they all were,....but it was a group effort. Do you think if all those members would have been making minimum wage ,the outcome would have been any different? I don't
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Jeff, Packard is a special case is it? I do not know the per hr there. I had to harrass you because you and I see the same problems just different.
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