Originally posted by MarkJerling I found a photo online, but in Toronto. Was it this car?
If it was, it looks like a 1951 Lincoln Cosmopolitan. At first I thought it was a 1950 Packard, but no.
I don't remember. At my age in 1951, I didn't know cars very well.
Later on (1959 I think) , I think the Queen and Phillip were again in Winnipeg and if memory serves me correct it was a big GM luxo convert. Usually what would happen back then, a car dealer would provide a convert from his stock, and it would invariably be a luxury car convert.
My wife's grandfather, who was an early Canadian bush pilot....and as a result was honoured to meet the Queen. She was driven to the event in a vintage Rolls-Royce....provided by a local car collector.
I think if Prince Phillip had his druthers...he would of always gone with a Land Rover. He was quite a fan.
Now, lodged in my deep, dark memory recesses....when Elizabeth's parents came for a Canadian tour in 1939, they had a Buick-McLaughlin....which was the Canadian market Buick of the time.
I think the American President's car...has generally been switched back and forth between Lincoln and Cadillac.
Another memory of mine, knocking around my relatively empty brain cavity...is didn't FDR....have the first presidential armoured car...which had previously been Al Capone's former car ? Was it not confiscated by the U.S. Treasury Dept. , due to Al's non payment of taxes ?