Mercedes-Benz and Rolls-Royce survived for years with very expensive, but dated designs. Packard also survived with limited styling change for at least eight or nine years up through 1940. Still, Packard hallmarks were very good ones: the chiseled frontispiece; the grille recalling classic Greek architecture; the ox-yoke radiator/hood (or 'bonnet' in the UK) shape harkened back to the Model L of 1904. What's more, the cormorant mascot, red hexagon hubs and arrowhead side-spear, were a combination at least as recognizable and timeless as the stand-up hood ornament and meshwork grille of Mercedes-Benz. Together, these consistent hallmarks unmistakably said "Packard" to school children and bankers alike, and had been the ornamentation of the chosen transport of wealthy Americans since Packard's Boss of the Road Six and Twin Six of the Teens and early Twenties.