Packard procar pics

Hangar 1 Moffett Field in Sunnyvale (currently Mountain View), CA. Look like headlights are in fenders to you - '41 Henney or so? Enjoyable not just for being vintage and a service car but a plain unadorned military example as well! :thumb:

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Henney ambulances

Fentress Mortuary (Ft. Smith, AR)
1940

R. F. Drummond & Co. (Little Rock, AR)
1936

(SL collection)
 

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'39 Henney 892L 3-way hearse and '53 Henney 5396 flower car, both on display @ Stephenson County Historical Society in Freeport, IL.

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Freeport is 130 miles from Milwaukee. A meet planner should contact museum inquiring if coaches can travel there.
 
New '53 Henney at the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation (aka Convair) snapped September 24, 1953.

Photo from Where the West Begins: Capturing Fort Worth's Historic Treasures collection.

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Couple Packards used for the service of Kenneth Kaiser, the first of California's 40th Division KIA dated 3/28/52. '52 CA license plate (COM)N26274 left and (BE)X73611 right. Shown in last two images are FD Lawrence Hall and Sergeant George Fitzwater.

Images from Los Angeles Examiner Collection.

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Utter-McKinley owned post-war Henney 3-way used for an unnamed motorcycle officer's funeral from their Wilshire Chapel location, dated 10/4/51.

Note Utter-McKinley nameplate facing inward. Double sided or photographer staged?

Images from Los Angeles Examiner Collection.

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that would be a Korean war KIA. one always wonders if they paid the same attention to the ones in the middle as they do the first and last
 
Another Packard 3-way, this one bearing CA plate (COM)R15163. Being used for the funeral of Ruby Ann Payne from Friends' Church in Yorba Linda to Loma Vista Memorial Park, dated 8/11/52.

Paegel photographer. Image from Los Angeles Examiner Collection.

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Another Packard 3-way, this one bearing CA plate (COM)R15163. Being used for the funeral of Ruby Ann Payne from Friends' Church in Yorba Linda to Loma Vista Memorial Park, dated 8/11/52.

Paegel photographer. Image from Los Angeles Examiner Collection.

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Based on the trim, this is a 1948 Henney-Packard
 
Utter-McKinley owned post-war Henney 3-way used for an unnamed motorcycle officer's funeral from their Wilshire Chapel location, dated 10/4/51.

Note Utter-McKinley nameplate facing inward. Double sided or photographer staged?

Images from Los Angeles Examiner Collection.

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The trim on this say's it is a 1950 Henney-Packard. The name plate is probably two sided. Common on three-ways so the name was always visable when the door was open or closed.
 
Couple Packards used for the service of Kenneth Kaiser, the first of California's 40th Division KIA dated 3/28/52. '52 CA license plate (COM)N26274 left and (BE)X73611 right. Shown in last two images are FD Lawrence Hall and Sergeant George Fitzwater.

Images from Los Angeles Examiner Collection.

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They are loading into a 35-37 Packard (may not be a Henney). Notice the roof is not steel, but leather. Full steel roofs did not come until the new designed Packard in 1938. 1938 was also the first year Henny had the exclusive contract with Packard. The other hearse in the picture is a later Henney-Packard, 1938-1941?
 
just curious hasn't any one noticed that the newspaper photos are reversed for printing? you reverse them you can read the writing on the pictures.
 

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just curious hasn't any one noticed that the newspaper photos are reversed for printing? you reverse them you can read the writing on the pictures.

The writing must have been on the negative. The word PACKARD on the door sill is correct when the handwriting is backwards. Also, the window switch on the closed front door only has one switch, making it a passenger door, not the drivers door. So, while the handwriting is backwards, the photo is correct.
 
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