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Title
Tom Fetch's visit and "Old Pacific"
Creator
Packard Motor Car Company

Institution
Detroit Public Library

Subject
Packard automobile--History

Subject
Automobile industry and trade--History

Subject
Automobiles--United States--History

Item Number
EB01c067

Type
image

Format
jpeg

Description
8x10 black and white Packard Co. file photograph of a 1903 Packard Model F with six men in front of brick building. Inscribed on photo back: 1-cylinder, 12-horsepower, 88-inch wheelbase, 2-person roadster "Old Pacific." "Tom Fetch's visit and "Old Pacific." Second from left, Frank H. McKinney, director of advertising & sales promotion. This model participated in the transcontinental crossing June 20th thru August 21st, 1903 from San Francisco to New York, driver was E.T. (Tom) Fetch, passenger/photographer Marius C. Krarup editor of The Automobile, rear deck passenger (Reno to Colorado Springs only), N.O. Allyn and in the First Annual Endurance Contest of the NAAM from New York to Pittsburgh 7-15th of October, 1903 as contestant #16 class D, driver E.T. Fetch and observer C.H. Lowe.

Tom Fetch

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