page_title: Theodore Wells Pietsch II
section_title: Briggs Manufacturing Company and the Packard Clipper: 1944–1947
hierarchical_section_title: Theodore Wells Pietsch II / Briggs Manufacturing Company and the Packard Clipper: 1944–1947
caption_attribution_description: English: The original drawing has been donated to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, but the image posted here was made by me, T. W. Pietsch III. Please see the correspondence below from Jennifer C. Riley, Head of Image Licensing and Digital Archives Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. You may tell them that while the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston owns the artwork; we do not retain the copyright to Theodore Wells Pietsch II’s images. Best, Jennifer Jennifer Riley Head of Image Licensing and Digital Archives Museum of Fine Arts, Boston jriley@mfa.org | 617-369-3777 http://www.mfa.org/collections/mfa-images Dear Mr. Pietsch, Regarding copyright, you retain copyright to any photos you took of the drawings made by your father. The copyright to the artworks and photographs does not revert to the Museum automatically upon donation of the works. The copyright to the photographs that you took stays with you so you have every right to upload those photos to Wikipedia. I am happy to provide you with language necessary for you to pass on to Wikipedia so you can reload the images. Since the Museum does not, in fact, hold the copyright to those photos, we cannot upload them. Best, Jennifer Jennifer Riley Head of Image Licensing and Digital Archives Museum of Fine Arts, Boston jriley@mfa.org | 617-369-3777 http://www.mfa.org/collections/mfa-images
context_page_description: Theodore Wells Pietsch II was an American automobile stylist and industrial designer who, with little formal education, managed to launch a career in automobile design that took him over a period of 38 years to nearly every major automobile company in the nation.
context_section_description: In autumn 1944, Pietsch left Hudson to work for Briggs Manufacturing Company, a company founded in 1908 by Walter Owen Briggs (1877–1952) that became the world's largest independent producer of automobile bodies. During the war, the company was a major supplier for the U.S. military, producing over a billion dollars worth of steel and aluminum products. In 1944, a record workforce of some 31,000 men and women built a wide variety of items, including aircraft gun turrets, wings, stabilizers, ailerons, tank hulls, bomb and wheel doors for the B-29, to mention only a few. But by September 1944, when Pietsch signed on, they were already looking ahead to post-war car designs, and efforts were underway to secure contracts for automotive bodies from Packard and Chrysler, among other companies. Early styling projects assigned to Pietsch included work on the Packard Clipper as well as some formal limousines on Chrysler chassis, and "special sedans," some designed specifically for Walter P. Chrysler and others for W. O. Briggs himself, none of which were ever built.
caption: Classic Car Series, Yellow Roadster, by T. W. Pietsch, 1944
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