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Another well-known photo of Nelsen Rockerfeller campaigning for office. Note the NY license plate number. Another Packard (7th series big 8?) in the foreground.

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Hi Guscha

What a great FDR photo, just look at him beaming, fully in his element! He just exuded confidence and good-cheer at a time when the country was in sore need of it. FDR is riding in a 1934 Twelve seven passenger Touring of the White House garage fleet. Note the door handles are the old ring-type.

Interesting Pierce-Arrow follows, of 1936-1938 model years. Convertible sedans of those late cars have the rear doors hinged on the B-pillar but this one has them rear hinged, looks to have roll-up windows on the front doors only. No open tourings or phaetons were in the factory body offerings. This is definitely a custom bodied car. Derham bodied a P-A of these years as a phaeton, this may be that very car.

On the other hand, Rockefeller is campaigning in a 1932 Standard Eight Series 902 Touring, identified by the single-bar bumper, chrome radiator shell and smaller diameter headlights without the 'crown' at the top. Why its nose-to-nose with another pre-war Classic Packard is anyone's guess.

Steve

Belgian king Leopold in a 1938 super eight convertible sedan.

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BDC, the devider window or at least its frame seems to be disproportionately thick.

The above mentioned 1932 Packard Phaeton is "...still in the state fleet and was used to drive Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus of the Netherlands in style when they visited Albany in 1982."




[citation & image source: thehistoryblog.com] Click to enlarge!

Guscha, I don't think the su8 convertible sedan came with a divider window but it looks like the posts and the bow were left on the car after they took the top down.

BDC, thanks. Here and there it is called "stationary partition".


8x10 black and white Packard Co. file photograph of a 1938 Packard right side view, crowd in background. Inscribed on photo back; Packard super eight, sixteenth series, model 1605, 8-cylinder, 130-horsepower, 139.375-inch wheelbase, 5-person convertible sedan (body type #1143), note fog lamps, fender mounted parking lamps, white sidewall tires, fender wells, 6-wheels, trunk rack, stationary partition between compartments, seated in tonneau; (left) King Leopold of Belgium, (right) Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, setting Brussels reception.

Item # EB01e088

Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.

"In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Langley Field on July 29, 1940. President Roosevelt sits in a car inside a NACA hangar, two unidentified men stand behind the car, and the wing of a plane is visible in the background."

This quotation is related to the first pic below. The history of NACA is an informativ as well as educational read. I suggest to wait for a rainy weekend or a sleepless night.
To picturize the ensemble I added two images, found on ebay.


sources
quotation and image #1 - space.com
images #2 & #3 - eBay item numbers: 381176333455 & 370959103498

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The martial-sounding Russian website panzer35.ru contains a photograph, that shows FDR in another Packard. Correct me if I'm wrong but it looks like a 1937. Compared to 1939 the door arrangement is the other way around.

Mal, is that the Australian National Flag?

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Gerd,

Don't think the flag on the far side is Aussie, really can't see enough of it for a positive identification.

But it's "FDR would probably have been a PackardInfo member"!

Just thinking, does POTUS have an official emblem? If so, the flag might be of that.