Hermann Dorner
L. A. Wright
Adolf Widmann
packard motor car company
Alvan Macauley
President
(Seal)
Attest: Milton Tibbetts
Assistant Secretary
2. Packard to Begin Building Diesel Plane Engines Soon
Will Start Construction at Once on New Three Story Factory to Handle Work
[From Aviation, March 2, 1929, vol. 26, no. 10]
DETROIT, MICH.—Indications that the Diesel type airplane engine, recently developed by Capt. L. M. Woolson, chief aeronautical engineer of the Packard Motor Car Co., will become a commercial reality and possibly a revolutionary factor in airplane engine design, is seen here in the announcement of the concern that it will begin construction immediately of a $650,000 plant to produce the engines in large quantity for the commercial market.
The new plant, according to the announcement by Hugh J. Ferry, treasurer of the Packard firm, will be completed and in operation within five weeks. Between 600 and 700 men will be employed and, according to expectations, production will be carried on at the rate of about 500 Diesel engines per month by July.