1940 Packard Vctoria’s hood ornament is a Horse’s Head.

Horse’s head represents the power Maybelline had over all other cosmetic brands.

One thing that makes Tom Lyle’s Packard Victoria, so unique, besides the extra long hood, was the hood ornament. It’s a horse’s, head!! Maybelline was ahead of the pack, as far as competition was concerned and the Packard out-horsepowered any other car on the road. The King of Advertising, equated the powerful symbol, with Maybelline’s super-power, in the cosmetic industry.

Speaking of Horses, and period films, you have to see “War Horse.”

Storyline




Dartmoor,1914: To his wife’s dismay farmer Narracott buys a thoroughbred horse rather than a plough animal but his teenaged son Albert trains the horse and calls him Joey,the two becoming inseparable. When his harvest fails the farmer has to sell Joey to the British cavalry and he is shipped to France where,after a disastrous offensive he is captured by the Germans and changes hands twice more before he is found,caught in the barbed wire in No Man’s Land four years later and freed,due to a bizarre truce. He is returned behind British lines where Albert,now a private,has been temporarily blinded by gas but still recognises his beloved Joey. However as the Armistice is declared Joey is set to be auctioned off. After all they have been through will Albert and Joey return home together?
Written by don @ minifie-1


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Trailer for War Horse. Click on video.