Re: carforce number one
Posted by Guscha On 2014/12/9 1:32:22
"...1939 Packard twelve, model 1708, seventeenth series, 12-cylinder, 175-horsepower, 139-inch wheelbase, 5/6-person special parade car, built for White House fleet. Official reception parade in Washington D.C. for their majesties King George VI (in lead car with President Roosevelt) & Queen Elizabeth (in second car with Mrs. Roosevelt), during 1939 state visit..."
This thread already houses photographs of this car here and there. Dave (O_D) added on another occasion that:
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...many Packards in FDR's terms, also Hoover and Truman. And in the Eisenhower era they had 4 or 6 of the 53 or 54 long-wheel base Henney limousines (more about that in the upcoming Robert Neal book). Hoover, FRD and Truman era Packards (below), data from the Smithsonian files.
Today a snippet, older than half a century.
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photo - Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
data - Smithsonian files
snippet - Sarasota Herald-Tribune, January 1, 1961
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