{"id":498731,"date":"2020-05-05T17:33:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T00:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=105884"},"modified":"2024-08-18T20:22:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T20:22:37","slug":"mr-lambs-time-capsule-1916-packard-twin-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mr-lambs-time-capsule-1916-packard-twin-six\/","title":{"rendered":"1916 Packard Twin Six – Mr. Lamb’s Time Capsule"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More Cylinders: Jessie Vincent and the Packard Twin Six engine<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe greatest piece of machinery that ever went upon the highways,\u201d proclaimed Henry B. Joy, Packard president in 1915, extoling the virtues of the recent release of his company\u2019s new engineering marvel, the Twin Six. Jessie Vincent, the brainchild of the Packard Twin Six, came to the Packard Motor Car Company in July of 1912 after a highly successful tenure at the Burroughs Adding Machine Company making his mark building \u201ca thick portfolio of patents.\u201d \u00a0He was interested in automobiles and made himself foreman of the company\u2019s garage, where he made all the repairs and adjustments to the Burroughs fleet of executive cars in Detroit before moving on to become acting chief engineer for the Hudson Motor Car Company. He was not with Hudson long before Alvan Macauley, who earlier worked with Vincent at Burroughs, got him to join Packard, in July of 1912. (Packard president Henry B. Joy hired Macauley to be Packard General Manager in 1910). Macauley named Vincent Chief Engineer of the Packard Motor Company, a position he would maintain for the next 40 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n