Talk:Clipper (automobile)

This page ought to be merged with Packard_Clipper, I don't know what the appropriate tag is. 128.231.88.4 14:55, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Clipper was made by Studebaker-Packard as a make rather than a model in 1956 only. Model name that Packard introduced in 1941 and used until 1947, reactivating it for1953-1955. If corporate plans would have worked, there would have been a Clipper make placed between Studebaker and Packard, filling a wide market niche were S-P had no offering. Accordingly, Detroit operations were named "Packard-Clipper Division, Studebaker-Packard Corp.". For a simple model this would not have been inappropriate. There was no "Packard-Patrician Division" nor a "Packard-Caribbean Division", at that.

This Clippers would have to compete with makes like Oldsmobile, Dodge, Mercury, Hudson, and Nash. So, although introducing the Clipper as a make was the only first step - with no second to follow as the company ran out of money. Nevertheless it was a registered make. Franchises for Clipper were theoretically available, production figures were not published as a Packard model, and the intention of president James Nance, to re-install Packard as a true luxury car, are clear. That afforded separation of the Clipper. The rest is explained in the article, in the articles about Studebaker-Packard Corp., and the Packard Motor Car Co. So, if the rule is correct that each make gets an article of its own the Clipper by Packard deserves one, of course. --Chief tin cloud (talk) 17:19, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This page is now merged into the Packard Clipper article. CZmarlin (talk) 16:50, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]