* 1930: First US diesel-power passenger car ( Cummins powered Packard ) built in Columbus, Indiana ( USA )

Hoping to catch still more of the market, Packard decided to issue the Packard 115C in 1937, which was powered by Packard's first six-cylinder engine since the Fifth Series cars in 1928.

During World War II, Packard again built airplane engines, licensing the Merlin engine from Rolls-Royce as the V-1650, which powered the famous P-51 Mustang fighter, ironically known as the " Cadillac of the Skies " by GIs in WWII.

Chief engineer Jesse Vincent developed a V12 airplane engine called the " Liberty engine " that was used widely in entente air corps during World War I. Packard powered boats and airplanes set several records during the 1920s.

The Merlin powered many World War II aircraft: the British Hawker Hurricane, Supermarine Spitfire, De Havilland Mosquito ( twin-engined ), Avro Lancaster ( 4-engine ); it also transformed the American P-51 Mustang into one of the best fighters of its time, its Merlin engine built by Packard under licence.

In 1958 the idea resurfaced when there were a least four theoretical nuclear powered concept cars proposed, the American Ford Nucleon and Studebaker Packard Astral, as well as the French Simca Fulgur designed by Robert Opron and the

Packard at that time only offered an Electromatic Vacuum Clutch option, which required manual shifting, and as most vacuum powered shifting, and clutching devices, was generally unreliable.

The Franco-American Facel-Vega four-door sedan, which was powered by a Chrysler V8 engine, would have been rebadged as a Packard.

Reeqiupped with Spitfire Mk XVIs ( Spitfire XI powered by a Packard Merlin 266 ) 485 Sqn ended the war based at airfield B. 109 / Drope, Germany.

They also had slightly less luxurious interiors, and were powered by the President's 289 cubic inch ( 4. 7 L ) V-8 with 210 horsepower ( 157 kW ) standard and 225 horsepower ( 168 kW ) optional ( rather than the Packard 352 of the Golden Hawk ).

Note: MGB 509 was powered by three Packard supercharged petrol engines giving a total output of and a maximum speed of 31 knots ( 27 knots continuous ).

She has featured in campaigns for: Benetton, Bulgari, Cartier, Clarins, Cortefiel, Dirk Bikkembergs, Fortunoff, Graff, Hewlett Packard / Intel, HS, Intimissimi, John Lewis, Lancaster, La Perla, La Senza, Maidenform, Max Factor, Pantene Pro-V, Passport, Playtex, Rampage, Schwarzkopf, Victoria's Secret, and Wild Orchid.

These engines were built by the Packard Motor Car Company, and were a modified design of the 3A-2500 V-12 liquid-cooled aircraft engine.

A cooperation with the Packard Motor Car Co. of Detroit culminated in the first Diesel engined aircraft, the Stinson Detroiter SM1B-X7654.

While Compaq shareholders unanimously approved the deal, there was a public proxy battle within HP as the deal was strongly opposed by numerous large HP shareholders, including the sons of the company founders, Walter Hewlett and David W. Packard, as well as the California Public Employees ’ Retirement System ( Calpers ) and the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan.

Servers use those processors and other readily available non-x86 processor choices, including the Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC, Fujitsu SPARC64 III and later, SGI MIPS, Intel Itanium, Hewlett Packard PA-RISC, Hewlett-Packard ( merged with Compaq which acquired first Digital Equipment Corporation ) DEC Alpha, IBM POWER and Apple Computer PowerPC ( specifically G4 and G5 series, as well as earlier PowerPC 604 and 604e series ) processors.

In essence, Sporck took four of his personnel from Fairchild with him as well as three others from TI, Perkin-Elmer and Hewlett Packard to form a new eight man team at National Semiconductor.

Dell's low spending on R & D relative to its revenue ( compared to IBM, Hewlett Packard, and Apple Inc .) which worked well in the commoditized PC market prevented it from making inroads into more lucrative segments such as MP3 players.

In mid-1956, the Packard V8 and TwinUltramatic transmission was phased out and replaced by AMC's new V8 engine, as well as GM's Hydra-Matic and Borg-Warner transmissions.

In addition to excellent luxury cars, Packard built trucks as well.

The idea was to gain volume for the years ahead, but that target was missed: Packard simply was not big enough to offer a real challenge to the Big Three, and they lacked the deep pockets a parent company could shelter them from as well as the model lineup to spread the pricing through.

Packard did well during the early post-war period and supply soon caught up with demand.

Packard, ever the innovator, was the originator of AC in automobiles in the 1930s, as well as the first car to use a steering wheel.

Ironically, it was considered that the Packard name might be used for the new fiberglass sports car, as well as Pierce-Arrow, the make Studebaker controlled in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Packard offered a 12-cylinder engine — the " Twin Six "— as well as a low-compression straight eight, but never a 16-cylinder engine.

It was used extensively in European cars Renault, Citroën and Volkswagen, as well as by Packard in the 1950s.

Only 2, 034 of the three standard models ( sedan, hardtop and station wagon ) were produced ; an additional 588 Packard Hawks were built as well.

Packard became a Debian Developer in 2004, maintaining fontconfig ( as well as being the upstream maintainer ) and other packages.

Along with R. A. Montgomery, his original publisher at Vermont Crossroads Press, Packard wrote many more books in the series, contributing well over 60 titles by 1998, when the series ended.

Current Peerless owners held onto their cars, which ran very well ; new money buyers of luxury cars were attracted to LaSalle, Packard, and the Studebaker President series.

After completion, Packard moved the machinery, and production line for the Ultramatic, as well as it's yet to be introduced V-8 engine during the summer and early fall of 1954.

Studebaker agencies in areas not covered by separate Packard dealers were allowed to sign Clipper franchise agreements ( and could also take on the regular Packard line as well, subject to factory approval ).

Arguably its conservative design philosophy had stood Packard well in the years leading up to the Clipper.

The engine was mounted well forward and the rear shocks were angled to assist the traditional Packard fifth shock in controlling side-sway.

Although it was as well engineered and was as fine a performer as before, the 1948 iteration no longer looked the part of a luxury Packard.

In his review of the The Simpsons-Gone Wild DVD set, David Packard of DVD Verdict wrote: " This episode has always been one of my favorites, and while the following episode Mansion Family " is a nice inclusion as well, this episode is the best on the disc.

A number of faculty are nationally and internationally recognized for their research and writing achievements, including Joseph Ellis ( historian ), Susan Barry ( neurobiologist ), Mark McMenamin ( geologist and paleontologist ) and Becky Wai-Ling Packard ( psychologist ).

By the fourth quarter of 2006, Dell lost its title of the largest PC manufacturer to rival Hewlett Packard which was invigorated thanks to a restructuring initiated by their CEO Mark Hurd.

The earthquake led to the temporary evacuation of the Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation, which at the time was hosting a town hall event for U. S. Senator Mark Warner.

Mark Bedau and Norman Packard developed a statistical method of classifying evolutionary systems and in 1997, Bedau et al.

In 1995 he joined up with fellow Indiana alum Mark Cuban and the two launched AudioNet, broadcasting live sporting events and radio stations over the Internet, at first with only a Packard Bell 486 PC and a single ISDN line.