Packard Single Six
The Packard Single Six refers to a series of 6-cylinder automobiles that the Packard Motor Car Company in Detroit produced between the model years 1921 and 1924.
After Packard abandoned the six-cylinder models introduced in 1913 in 1915 in favor of the Twin Six model with a twelve-cylinder engine, it was decided in 1921 to reintroduce a more economical alternative to the large cars.
The cars had an in-line six-cylinder engine with side-mounted valves, 3957 cm³ (bore × stroke = 85.7 mm × 114.3 mm) and an output of 52 bhp (38.2 kW) at 2400 rpm. The design of the engine was based on the Liberty aircraft engines developed by Packard during the First World War . The engine power was passed on to a manual three-speed gearbox and from there to the rear wheels via a seven-plate oil bath clutch. The mechanical brakes only worked on the rear wheels.
The Single Six was only available on a chassis with a 2946 mm wheelbase. An open, 5-seater tourer, an open, 2-seater runabout, a 5-seater sedan or a 4-seater coupé could be built on it.
In 1922 the model was completely redesigned: The engine received a piston stroke of 127 mm, which means the displacement was 4,398 cm³. This made for 54 bhp (39.7 kW) at 2,700 rpm. The clutch had nine discs to safely transmit the greater engine power. There were chassis with 3,200 mm or 3,378 mm wheelbase and a wide variety of bodies with two to seven seats.
The models were designated according to their wheelbases in inches, i.e. in 1921/1922 as model 116 and 1922/1923 as models 126 and 133. Together with the Single Eight model of 1924, they formed the 1st series, a numbering that continued until 1953 ( 26th series) was continued.
In 1924, half a year after the introduction of the single eight, a new single six was presented. He combined the technology and dimensions of the 1923 Single Six with the new achievements of the Single Eight: four-wheel brakes and manually operated windshield wipers. In the following year the model was renamed Packard Six . A total of 46,585 Single Sixs were created in four years.
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- Beverly Rae Kimes et al .: Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1805-1942. Krause Publications, Iola WI 1985, ISBN 0-87341-111-0 .