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The Clipper, although a graceful classic automobile, became outdated as the new envelope bodies started appearing led by Studebaker and Kaiser-Frazer.
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Available in just two body styles, Town Sedan ( 4-door sedan ) and Country Sedan ( 4-door station wagon ), they were powered by Studebaker's V8 with McCulloch supercharger, delivering the same as the 1956 Clipper Custom, although at higher revolutions.
Following the closure of Packard's Detroit, Michigan factory in 1956, the Clipper marque was discontinued, although the Clipper name was applied to 1957 Packards built at Studebaker's South Bend, Indiana factory.
Emmett repeated this story in the May 19, 1877, New York Clipper, although other details changed.
Clipper and classic
1995 saw the release by publisher U. S. Gold of Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer by video game developers Clipper Software, a classic point-and-click adventure game.
Clipper and automobile
* Clipper ( automobile ), an American automobile make ( 1901 and 1956 )
* Packard Clipper, an American automobile model ( 1941-1947 ; 1953-1955 ; 1957 )
Clipper was a stand-alone make of automobile produced by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation in 1955 – 1956 for the 1956 model year only.
Nance believed that as a Packard model, the Packard Clipper was diluting Packard's standing as a luxury automobile marque.
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In these events, we can see that the Clipper represented a continuum: Packard's timeless styling hallmarks combined with the modern envelope body was as effective a mating of the old and the new as anyone could point to in American automobile history.
The Packard Clipper Constellation was a two-door hardtop automobile produced by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation in model years 1955 and 1956.
Clipper and became
For 1956, the Clipper became a separate make, with Clipper Custom and Deluxe models available.
Pan Am became the first airline to cross the Pacific Ocean with the famous Clipper flying boats.
Returning to Hollywood, he became politically active, joining the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, co-editing a left literary magazine, The Clipper.
In 1965, the post-war Excambion became USTS Texas Clipper for service with the Texas Maritime Academy until being sunk as an artificial reef on November 17, 2007.
After being nursed back to health from a suspected lung abscess by his wife, Chichester became inspired while writing his book Along the Clipper Way, which charts the voyage taken by 19th century wool clippers returning from Australia.
The initial Clipper microprocessor produced by Fairchild was the C100, which became available in 1986.
Its owners Moe and Joe Wendell became the Clipper to steal people's hair to improve their business.
However, by March 21, 2006, Pan Am Clipper Connection became the first announced non-charter service to connect to the growing Tunica Municipal Airport in Tunica, Mississippi.
Clipper and new
The new design hid its relationship to the Clipper.
Packard that year ( total production 89, 796 ) comprised the bread-and-butter Clipper line ( the 250 series was dropped ), Mayfair hardtop coupes and convertibles, and a new entry level long-wheelbase sedan named Cavalier.
In the factory, any new telephone or other device with a Clipper chip would be given a " cryptographic key ", that would then be provided to the government in " escrow ".
Even with this new route, however, Clipper could never draw the numbers it needed to remain profitable.
Built by Upper Clyde Shipbuilders of Glasgow, Scotland in 1970, the new vessel was named the Texas Clipper II as per tradition.
A new, high-end mixed-use development at Clipper Mill, directly in front of the Woodberry Light Rail station, has spurred additional economic activity in the area.
That same year, the District implemented a new TransLink ( now called Clipper ) fare payment system on all bus and ferry services as an initial " pre-launch " test.
The gap in between was filled by a new make, the Clipper.
Although Nance was presumably right, dealer resistance against the Clipper as a new entry in the intermediate field was big.
For model year 1956, when the Clipper had at last become a stand-alone make, the vehicles received new rear sheet metal and tail-light treatments.
The Packard Clipper was initially a single model of the Packard Motor Car Company introduced in April, 1941, midyear, much as was the 1964 1 / 2 Ford Mustang and other new departures.
However, with the attack on Pearl Harbor pulling the United States into war, the fate of the radically new Clipper was irrevocably altered.
Faced with the same conundrum of appearing modern, an envelope body at odds with a mandatory trademark, a vertical radiator grille, Rolls-Royce could do little better in autumn, 1955 than offer a razor-edged 1941 Packard Clipper, albeit with a curved, one-piece winshield, as their new Silver Cloud and concurrent Bentley S-series.
" And as it turned out, this new look guaranteed the Clipper an appearance never compromised by competitive imitators.
In 1942 Cadillac and Buick adopted the same pontoon fender line, but the Clipper still looked unique, apart from and slightly above the crowd, especially the new 1942 senior Clippers, which alone retained the debut 1941's 127-inch wheelbase, longer hood and front fenders.
Nance originally had hoped to introduce the new " Clipper " as a stand-alone marque, targeting the mid range price field which he felt was dragging the Packard image down.
Aided by an initial generous gift from the Allegheny Foundation in 1976, Landmarks adapted five historic Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad buildings for new uses and added a hotel, a dock for the Gateway Clipper Fleet, and parking areas.
In response to HUD's rejection of the deal, Clipper Equity proposed a new bid aimed at appeasing its critics.
An 1872 edition of The New York Clipper provides one of the earliest accounts, claiming that on a Saturday night shortly after Emmett had been taken on as songwriter for the Bryant's Minstrels, Jerry Bryant told him they would need a new walkaround by the following Monday.
Clipper and bodies
For 1946 – 1947 all Packards used Clipper bodies and the " Clipper " name.
Clipper and started
He established in 1966 Trident Cars Ltd and started building the car under the model name of Clipper.
The original Visual Objects project ( code-named Aspen ) was started as part of Nantucket's attempts to bring the Clipper language to Windows, and move from the procedural to the object-oriented style.
The Cadillac Sixty-two sedan and coupe started around $ 2, 300 in 1946 — about the same price as the Super Clipper.
Intergraph started work on a subsequent Clipper processor design known as the C5, but this was never completed or released.
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