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Packard Cars works and showroom for the American company’s British concessionaire, Leonard Williams Ltd. This building was completed in 1929.
At 0939 hours on the 21st March 1945 a German V-2 rocket hit the Packard factory completely destroying it and damaging 13 nearby factories and 662 houses; It killed 34, seriously injured 100, and lightly injured 460.
Barry Newman: My father, Roy Newman (now 78) recalls a V2 landing on Packards on the Great West Road, Isleworth. Packards had been a car manufacturer prior to the war, but was a munitions factory in wartime. Thus, despite there apparently being heavy loss of life, there was little or no reporting of the incident at the time.
Andrew Walker: Barry, this was a major V2 incident with at least 34 dead, 33 at Packards and one at a neighbouring factory. However the date was a bit later than your father recalls, 21st March 1945. The last V2 fell less than one week later '