RHODES: Hinnegan Funeral Home used former College Home building |
My favourite era of the automobile has always been the 1930s.
The art deco design, potato shaped windows and engines with as many as 16 cylinders are some of the special features I enjoy so much about these cars.
Probably, my favourite brand of that age was the Packards and I know of several of them that were owned by local people.
Packards were popular in Canada, enough so that it was worth the effort of the Packard Company to do some assembly of the brand in Windsor, from 1931 to 1939, in order to get around the Depression era anti trade taxation. Donald Trump, obviously, was not the first and only person to tax producers out of the international marketplace.
Packards were large cars, particularly the 120-inch wheelbase versions.
The size and power made these Packards ideal as funeral hearses, and I know of two of them in Chatham, with one of those in service at the Hinnegan Funeral Home........