EPR000529 ENGLAND (1935). Packard Service Station on the Great West Road, Spring Grove, 1935

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

In window - A pair of 1935 Packard Formal Sedans

In window - A brand new 1935 Packard 12, 1208 Limosine

In window - A brand new 1935 Packard Super 8 Limousine

In window - A brand new 1935 Packard 1203 Super Eight

Leonard Williams Co. Ltd, British concessionaire for selling American Packard cars.