page_title: Packard Automotive Plant
section_title: Under Packard
hierarchical_section_title: Packard Automotive Plant / Design and operation / Under Packard
caption_attribution_description: English: Packard plant no 10 in construction 1900-1910
context_page_description: The Packard Automotive Plant is a former automobile-manufacturing factory in Detroit, Michigan, where luxury cars were made by the Packard Motor Car Company and later by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation.
context_section_description: The 3,500,000-square-foot (325,000 m²), designed by Albert Kahn Associates using Trussed Concrete Steel Company products is located on 40 acres (16 ha) of land on East Grand Boulevard on the city's east side. It included the first use of reinforced concrete in the United States for industrial construction in the automobile industry.
  The Packard plant was opened in 1903 and at the time was considered the most modern automobile manufacturing facility in the world: modern, efficient, and massive in scale. At its peak the complex employed 40,000 people, including skilled craftsmen involved in over eighty trades. The plant turned out Packard automobiles from 1903 to 1956, except during World War II, when production was shifted to war material, particularly the Packard V-1650 Merlin, which powered the North American P-51 Mustang fighter plane.
caption: The Packard Plant's building number 10 during expansion circa 1911
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