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Rollie Hotz  (left) and Fred K. Cronenwett (right)
Rollie Hotz  (right) and Fred K. Cronenwett (left)

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New Police Car for the Howell, Michigan Police Department - 1951

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In 1951 the Howell, Michigan Police Department received a new Nash Ambassodor.

The police department was located at 121 N. Michigan Ave., southeast corner intersection of N. Michigan Ave. and Clinton St.

E. G. and Rosa McPherson Memorial Hospital in background.

Photos are used in Images of America Howell by David D. Finney Jr. and Judith McIntosh, text on page 59: "Nash Ambassador Super. In the winter of 1951, police chief Fred K. Cronenwett received the keys to a new Nash Ambassador Super patrol car. The Nash Ambassador Airflytes were considered the "cars of the future." Its distinctive and futuristic styling had a new vertical-bar grill, enclosed wheels, guardrail front bumpers, sloping fastback, and one-piece windshield."

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