Here we have a set I have never come across before, a German set, showing the Chrysler Windsor, which in our tangential week stands for Windsor Castle.
Now it is easy to see why the Americans would call a limousine a Windsor, because it would reinforce the idea of luxury, and have a little frisson of excitement that it might have had something to do with the Royal Family. There was even one called the "Royal Windsor", from 1939 to 1941/42 which is when production of cars was given over the production of war materials. This ceased in 1946 and the Windsor came back, until 1961 in American and until 1966 in Canada.
In fact, however, there were not only limousines that bore the "Windsor" name, there was a whole range, from sporty coupes to more workmanlike sedans.
Paicos as a manufacturer is somewhat elusive, but they are listed in our original World Tobacco Issues Index, as :
PAICOS Cigaretten- und Tabakfabrik Berllin, Germany.
German Language Issues, 1950-52
- MOTOR CARS (A). Sm. 76 x 36 (174) and Md. 77 x 54 (94). Black and white. Numbered in sub-series (268) ... P3-1
- SCHONES DEUTSCHLAND (Beautiful Germany). Lg.98 x 78. Black and white. No.10 seen ... P3-2
The first thing I noticed here is that there is no German title for our set, but I imagine it was probably "Das Autos". It may have been on the album, if there was one, but its not on the car cards, whereas it is on the other set listed here. That also gives us an address, of sorts, "Berlin NW 87", which is a postal district, namely Nordwest 87, which was in West Berlin at the time these sets were issued, and which today is part of the borough of Mitte.
Now in the intervening years between our original World Tobacco Issues Index and the updated version, some fifty years, there had been some discoveries. Therefore the entry for our group in the updated version reads as follows :
PAICOS Cigaretten- und Tabakfabrik Berllin, Germany.
German Language Issues, 1950-52
- FLUGZEUGE DER GEGENWART (Modern Aircraft). Lg. 100x 80. Black. Nd. (200) Special album issued ... P062-300
- MOTOR CARS (A). Sm. 76 x 36 (174) and Md. 77 x 54 (94). Black and white. Nd in sub-series (268) ... P062-500
- SCHONES DEUTSCHLAND (Beautiful Germany). Lg.98 x 78. B & W. Nd. (200). Soecial album issued ... P062-800
This is not the end of the story, either, as in the updates to that book, which you will find elsewhere on this site, there is the following record :
PAICOS, Germany
SCHÖNES DEUTSCHLAND (Beautiful Germany). Lg. 98 x 78. B & W. Nd. Special albums issued. 1. No series number. (200). 2. Inscribed "2. Teil". (200). ... P062-800
And we also now know that the special album was titled as "Auto-mobile Aus Aller Welt" which is therefore what the title at the top of this page has been changed to.