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1956: Detroit has built Packards for 53 years. But by mid-December Packards will be rolling down South Bend assembly lines.

South Bend Dramatic club is realized with its first play, The Elopement of Ellen presented last evening.

It’s more than 60 years since the last car bearing a Packard badge rolled off the assembly line, but in spite of this, the ex-owners who are left still remember and value them as fine automobiles.. . .

South Bend Tribune What was making news in our area during this week in years past? The History Museum offers these newspaper excerpts to give you an idea.  July 5, 1919: “South Bend’s long cherished dream for a union station and the elimination of the Grand Trunk tracks from West Division street is now more than a remote possibility as the result of the conference Thursday afternoon between Mayor Carson’s committee and P. J. Kelly, president of the Grand Trunk Western railroad, at the ...

George Mason, president of Nash and architect of the merger became chairman of AMC. Unfortunately he died a few months after the union and was replaced by his visionary executive vice-president, George Romney. Romney, like Mason, firmly believed in smaller more economical cars. And although Nash had just launched the tiny two passenger Austin-engined Metropolitan in March 1954, it was too small for families. Romney recognized Rambler as AMC’s best asset. The Nash Rambler had been introduce...