All the World Was Packard's Stage

摘要

With a declaration of "World Supremacy," Packard advertising filled the pages of The Saturday Evening Post, Fortune, Time, and other popular periodicals throughout 1932. This colorful series, which primarily promoted the eight-cylinder cars, featured paintings of exotic locations across the globe. In one such ad set in the crowded streets of India, copy said: "Where magnificent pomp and splendor mark all ceremonious occasions, the luxury and distinction of Packard transportation are widely appreciated. The list of native Princes, Maharajas and Nawabs who own one or more Packard cars reads like a roster of East Indian Nobility." Noted another, "In the maze of London's traffic and on the hedge-bordered lanes of the English countryside more Packards are driven by people of wealth and rank than any other fine American make of car." The ad pictured a green Packard Light Eight.