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.

The 1958 Packard Hawk was essentially a Studebaker Golden Hawk 400 with a fibreglas front end and a modified deck lid.

It was decided by Packard President James J. Nance ( 1952 – 1956 ), and his manufacturing Vice-President, Ray Powers ( 1954 – 1956 ), ; that their East Grand Boulevard complex was no longer able, due to age and deterioration of that facility, to be further modified to handle the expected increase in production for the company in 1955 and beyond.

The removal of Miss Packard 18 years earlier had caused them great sorrow, but they still had Miss Giles.

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.

The Company assists people and companies world wide, requesting specific Packard parts and puts them in touch with suppliers.

Jim Packard kept them apprised of their point status, and when the team earns three points, bells signal that they have won the game.

If a team earns three points without missing a single question, they have the option of going for the " Mother Lode " by answering two more questions correctly without missing one, or else a fictitious penalty is put upon them ( usually made up on the spot by Packard and related to a joke from earlier in the show ).

Packard's Utica, Michigan engine plant was leased to Curtiss-Wright during 1956 ( and eventually sold to them ), marking the end of genuine Packard production.

Packard's plant in Detroit, Michigan had been leased to Curtiss-Wright ( and would be soon sold to them ), and Packard models in this dying-gasp year were all rebadged and retrimmed Studebaker products.

Some of them could be used ( via HP-IL ) to control the instruments other Hewlett Packard divisions produced.

Dealers complained that the only thing that allowed them to sell Clippers was the prestige, though declining, of the Packard name on the car itself.

Unlike Cadillac, Packard refused to market its cheaper models by a different name and remained wedded to them long after prosperity had returned.

" Around 1940, Packard called and asked if I'd design a new standard line car for them.

Power door locks were introduced on the luxury Scripps-Booth in 1914, but were not common on luxury cars until Packard reintroduced them in 1956.

Henney produced thousands of custom built limousines, ambulances, and hearses ( most of them built on Packard chassis ), before being contracted to begin the Kilowatt project.

`` That will be so nice for you, Mrs. Packard '', she said.

In 1890 when the trip to Europe and the Holy Land was arranged for Miss Packard, it was Miss Upton who planned the trip, and `` with rare executive ability '' bore the brunt of `` the entire pilgrimage from beginning to end ''.

So strenuous it was physically, with its days of horseback riding over rough roads that it seems an amazing feat of endurance for both Miss Packard and Miss Upton.

If organized as a division then the top manager is often known as an Executive Vice President ( for example, Todd Bradley who heads the Personal Systems Group in Hewlett Packard ).

Sam the Sham of the Pharaohs ( known for Wooly Bully and Lil ' Red Riding Hood ) was known for transporting all his equipment in a 1952 Packard hearse.

The design is also referred to as HP / PA for Hewlett Packard Precision Architecture.

The Stanford trustees also oversee the Stanford Research Park, the Stanford Shopping Center, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University Medical Center, and many associated medical facilities ( including the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital ).

In the United States the Packard Motor company was licensed by Rolls-Royce to produce the Merlin as the Packard V-1650 for use in the North American P-51 Mustang.

In parallel with but independent of the work at Xerox PARC, Hewlett Packard developed and released in late 1978 the first commercial WYSIWYG software application for producing overhead slides or what today are called presentation graphics.

Gettys, Packard and several others began discussing in detail the requirements for the effective governance of X with open development.

A short time later, Keith Packard created xwin. org, which mainly served as a meeting point for cultivating the XFree86 fork.

While this was claimed to be the fork of XFree86, Keith Packard later refined this to " a forum for community participation in X ".

Packard built the Rolls-Royce Merlin aero engine under license alongside the 4M-2500, but with the exception of the PT-9 prototype boat brought from England for Elco to examine and copy, the Merlin was never used in PTs.

Many terminal emulators have been developed for terminals such as VT100, VT220, VT320, IBM 3270 / 8 / 9 / E, IBM 5250, IBM 3179G, Data General D211, Hewlett Packard HP700 / 92, Sperry / Unisys 2000-series UTS60, Burroughs / Unisys A-series T27 / TD830 / ET1100, ADDS ViewPoint, Sun console, QNX, AT386, SCO-ANSI, SNI 97801, Televideo, and Wyse 50 / 60.

The Hewlett Packard HP 2640 terminals had a key for a " display functions " mode which would display graphics for all control characters, including Esc, to aid in debugging applications.

Packard developed the Simplex mechanism for automatic record changing, and sold the device to Wurlitzer.

Packard, an avid blacksmith, personally designed and created several exhibit elements for the aquarium at his forge in Big Sur, including the wave machines in the Kelp Forest and aviary.

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 ).

* The Packard Music Hall provides its users, guests and community a venue for civic, arts and entertainment events, also hosts the Warren G. Harding High School graduation.

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.

His daughter, the marine biologist Julie Packard, is currently Executive Director of the aquarium.

Packard also made large aeronautical and marine engines.

Using three Packard marine engines, they were capable of around 37 knots.

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.

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.

The Company uses the trademark by licensing various companies to use the Packard name, and the Company also manufactures and markets Packard branded automobile parts.

In order to produce an engine of appropriate power for a Packard, a McCulloch-supercharged version of Studebaker's 289 in³ ( 4. 7 L ) small-block V8 was used, giving 275 bhp ( 205 kW ), equivalent to the Packard engines in use the year before ( and likewise used in the Studebaker Golden Hawk ).

In this new DRIVE range, it would use the low ratio and torque converter to start off, switching to the high ratio and ultimately to direct drive as the car accelerated ; effectively automating what many Packard drivers had been doing manually with the older Ultramatic Drive.

A new facility was therefore planned and built for use by Packard as a transmission and engine facility in Utica Michigan.

Some automotive historians have argued that Packard should have dropped the Ultramatic after 1954, and purchased a more modern transmission design from another manufacturer but such opinions prove worthless when considering Packards use of a locking torque converter was not only up to date but ahead of its time.