Packard Motor Car Company

Packard Motor Car Company is a Michigan historical marker in Detroit, Wayne County, dedicated 1982.

Wayne County · dedicated 1982 · 1580 East Grand Blvd, Detroit

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The Packard Motor Car Company, which built Detroit’s first, and for many years most prestigious, luxury cars, produced over 1.5 million vehicles on this site from 1903 to 1954. The factory complex, designed by Albert Kahn, included the city’s first use of reinforced concrete for industrial construction. At its opening, it was considered the most modern automobile manufacturing facility in the world. In it skilled craftsmen practiced over eighty trades.

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