Packard Plant in Detroit
 

I found this interesting, maybe others will too.

http://www.freep.com/interactive/art...parison-photos

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It was thanks for posting Gary.

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Outstanding photos and History lesson. Then came the unions and ........

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That is so cool!

What a shame.

JimR

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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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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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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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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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What about Studebaker?????

Studebaker was the only nationally-known wagon manufacturer to survive the transition from horses to horsepower. In the early 1930's, during the Depression, the First was passed, allowing Labor Unions to organize. The workers at Studebaker were among the first automobile companies to organize into an Industrial Union -- becoming Federated Labor Union 18310 under the American Federation of Labor (AFL). The Studebaker's aggressive union, which saddled the company with the highest labor costs in the industry. The company always seemed to cave in to union demands rather than risk a strike.

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Thread about to be blown out of the water in 3-2-1 ---union you can't spell communism without it ---Trevor

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Good one Trevor....LMAO


I was not trying to start anything with my union friend.....other that give him an elbow in the ribs.....Besides, Studebaker and Packard happened a long time ago, before Unions.....ah.....ah.....well never mind.

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MOM....DAD....Dick started it...Tell him to quit, LOL

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Yea but Jeff likes it.....I totally understand your position , it has been your life work defending your fellow workers and from the sound of it you are to be thanked by all for your dedication and support. Fairness to workers wasnt exactly started out of the goodness of the hearts of Scrooge et al.
Somewhere along the way some issues became too costly the other direction in the US.

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To see stuff in it's current state and slide back and forth to see it in it's glory is pretty sad.
Cool how they did that with the pictures mind you, but sad to see it as it is now.