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Nehru in Calcutta 1949

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"From Packardia"???

New countries are popping up all the time but hadn't heard of that one before.

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Mal, it's located beyond the past.
Please find attached another three pics, taken in India. Don't know if the given annual details are correct.

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?lafur Ragnar Gr?msson; born 14 May 1943 is an Icelandic politician, who was the fifth President of Iceland from 1996 to 2016 [source: wikipedia].
This car was our first carforce number one, a couple of years ago.



image source: icelandmonitor.mbl.is

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As often before, Tito and his cars. Visible in the last pic below is a mounted rod antenna for his radiotelephone.


Click to enlarge!

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1934 Packard three-quarter left side view, top raised, owner standing at driver's door with small boy sitting on running board. Inscribed on photo back; Packard 1107 twelve, eleventh series, 12-cylinder, 160-horsepower, 142-inch wheelbase, 5-person convertible sedan (body type #743), Sultan of Langkat, Dutch East Indies.

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

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Interesting photo, and some unusual features including non-stock radiator cap and fender lights. And what appears to be painted wheels with chromium plated spokes. This wheel configuration is quite popular today on restorations though I can't ever recall seeing it listed as available back then. As I recall the wheel options were limited to painted wire spoke, all chromium plated wire spoke, wooden artillery, and disc (disteel).

Think this is a '40 Packard in Cairo, Egypt.

Caption reads "Opening of new Y.M.C.A. hostel by Gen. Wilson in old post office. Arrival of Gen. Sir Henry M. Wilson, just after alighting from car"

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Title: Opening of new Y.M.C.A. hostel by Gen. Wilson in old post office. Arrival of Gen. Sir Henry M. Wilson, just after alighting from car
Creator(s): Matson Photo Service, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1941 October 26.
Medium: 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 in.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-matpc-21110 (digital file from original)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. For information see: "G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection,"hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.258.mats
Call Number: LC-M33- 12354 [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USAhdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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A Y.M.C.A. in Cario? Strictly for ex-pats? Still, an interesting photo and caption. Thanks for sharing.

Here is another period picture of plated spokes, which make the unlisted option more authentic than painted radiator shells on 32-34 eight cylinder cars for which I am still searching for one single verifiable period picture. I have two pictures from the late forties - Gordon Webber's 32 and an individual Custom 8 - but both may have been due to paint jobs.

Not my favorite, too ghetto, but period correct.

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