Re: Miss Packard

[JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

According to the Hemmings article referenced by Ken
Ames, Henry Ford was asked to build the Merlins first.
 He turned the War Department down because he was such
an isolationist.  This is before December 1941.

Joe Fulton

--- farna@xxxxxxx wrote:

> On December 6, 2005 andrew hay wrote:
> 
> > those 8s could've been packards; they had an air
> history much like
> > rolls royce or bmw, up to ww2.  it's not by
> accident that packard
> > built the merlins for the aaf in ww2; also not by
> accident that they
> > were better at it than rr.
> 
> It could've helped that the Packard factories
> weren't being bombed... ;> 
> 
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