Rare piece of Detroit Packard/Lincoln history found - [[ Designer John M Reinhart )

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Photo of by John M. Reinhart found online.

Presenting a book once owned and signed by John M. Reinhart.

Reinhart was the cheif designer for the Lincoln Mark II, the Packard Patrician and many other cars, a list which is much more exhaustive than my rudimentary online search.

The signature reads:

John M. Reinhart.
November 30, 1936
Detroit, Michigan.

I've been holding on to this item since about 2005, it had significance for me as this is a piece of Detroit memorabilia which turned up in an unlikely place, being in a large box full of books which were part of a estate sale in a dingy auction room in Sydney Australia. I bought it pretty much by accident.

If I were to guess, I would say that Reinhart was transferred to Australia permanently by Ford which had large manufacturing and design facilities which served the domestic market in Sydney until the 1980's.

A picture of a Lincoln Zephyr which was illustrated by Reinhart in 1936, the same year that the book was signed.

Photo's of the book: