tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37353682.post5704754258074045065..comments2024-03-28T09:45:37.271-07:00Comments on Just A Car Guy: The big guns in small boats, Packard and Hall Scott enginesJessehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429349943129907930noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37353682.post-19168868993149658342016-09-01T15:11:11.321-07:002016-09-01T15:11:11.321-07:00Sweet! Hall-Scott was also a major supplier of fi...Sweet! Hall-Scott was also a major supplier of fire apparatus and heavy truck engines in the pre-diesel era. I'm pretty sure that just about every one of L.A.F.D's and L.A.County F.D.'s 1950's and early to mid '60s Crowns were Hall-Scott powered.<br /><br />As for Packard...every P.T. boat had a trio of Packard engines in them...marine tweaked versions of the License built Packard version of the legendary Rolls-Royce Merlin. This same engine powered an obscure little airplane called the P-51 Mustang.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18414805025967672048noreply@blogger.com