T.L.WILLIAMS 1917 PAIGE DETROIT AND 1934 PACKARD DIETRICH.

Here is one of the articles appearing in the Antique Automobile magazine, about Tom Lyle Williams 1917 Paige Detroit and his 1934 Packard Dietrich - Vee Windshield.

Paige Article Steve Snyder - click on "full screen" in little box below this article to enlarge.

Corrections to this article: 
1 - I have known Bettie Youngs, 5 years not 20.  
2 - The lady driving the Paige isn't Mabel.  Mabel was 25 years old in 1917, the lady in the car is much older. Mabel is in the top picture with Tom Lyle Williams and my grandfather, Preston Williams.
3 -  Mabel never drove a car her entire lifetime.
4 - and her brother didn't give her the Paige.  
Continued tomorrow.

1917 Paige Detroit,"the most beautiful car in America."

                  To celebrate Tom Lyle Williams,
           116 Birthday.....Jan 19, 1896.....

My cousin, Chuck Williams, aka, BBI, and I met with Steve Snyder, of Vault Cars, at Barrett Jackson's Classic Car Auction, in Scottsdale Arizona....We discussed our great uncle's, 1940 Packard Victoria.... which has been in Steve's, father, Bill Snyder's, collection for over 40 years.

Tom Lyle Williams,

What came out of that meeting, was a decision to meet on March 18, to view the Packard Victoria and make a video, for my blog. Check this video of Chuck and Sharrie toasting Tom Lyle's 116th Birthday.

Tom Lyle's, first automobile was the,, Paige Detroit, click on highlighted, Paige Detroit for a one of my earlier posts, about Tom Lyle and this amazing classic!!!!

                                           
 Lash-Brow-Ine History, Click highlighted, for an earlier post and get the big picture of what was going on when Tom Lyle, purchased The Paige Detroit, known as the most beautiful car in the world, in 1917.

When Lash-Brow-Ine, became Maybelline, in 1917, Tom Lyle, celebrated by buying, The Paige Detroit.

The first liquid Maybelline followed Maybelline cake mascara in 1917.


Each day this week I will show another automobile, owned byMaybelline's King of Advertising, Tom Lyle Williams.

Stay tuned as we head towards seeing TL's Packard!!!

Tom Lyle Williams and Emery Shaver, together in life and death.

Tom Lyle Williams and Emery Shaver..... Family men, and Entrepreneurs. 

Tom Lyle Williams, Emery Shaver's sister and brother, Emery Shaver sitting on the ground with the dog, another sister, Ches Haines and TL's sister, Eva Williams-Haines.
This picture of the Williams and Shaver's, was taken after Tom Lyle bought his new 1921 Packard.  The second outstanding automobile TL would own over his lifetime. 

TL's, first car, was the Paige Detroit, bought in 1916.  The reason he loved his new Packard so much, was because the entire family could squeeze into it for a Sunday drive. 

 I had a picture of my father, Bill Williams as a baby, with his parents, Preston and Evelyn and the whole Williams family, cruising in TL's big black Packard, and it looked a little like the picture below! 

(My picture was lost in the Laguna Beach firestorm, in 1993, when my home was burned to the ground.)

              The Memphis Police Department's 1921

TL's first custom made automobile was the Paige Detroit.  Known as the most beautiful car in the world.

Tom Lyle and Emery were together for nearly 50 years and are entombed together in death. 

Tom Lyle and Emery ran the advertising division of the Maybelline Company, at the Villa Valentino in the Hollywood Hills.  When the Villa was torn down to make room for the Hollywood freeway, in 1949, they moved to a modern stone and glass estate in Bel Air California.

After Emery's sudden death in 1964, Tom Lyle decided to sell the Maybelline Company.  Which he did in December, 1967. 

Read the whole story in The Maybelline Story and the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It. 

Be sure to get your signed copies for Christmas gifts, at www.maybellinebook.com.

The Paige Detroit, right out of a Hollywood movie.

Paige, the most beautiful car in America!

Tom Lyle bought his first car in the Fall of 1916, customised the wheels and the back end of the car.

Tom Lyle with his family. in his new Paige Detroit, Chicago, 1917.

 Paige Detroit 1916 H2 6 - 38 Owner Manual Original.

Read more about Tom Lyle's first car and his love affair of beautiful automobiles, 

  in The Maybelline Story.  Purchase a signed copy from www.maybellinestory.com. 

Stay tuned tomorrow for my interview at the Desert Concours D' Elegance, in La Quinta California, when Alain Clenet, signed my father, Bill Williams, 13th edition, Series 1, 1977 Clenet. 

               You won't want to miss this!!!           

Author Sharrie Williams and her cousin Chuck toast their great uncle Tom Lyle on his 115th Birthday,

Tom Lyle driving his brand new Paige Detroit, with his sister Mabel and his father TJ in the back seat.  They are parked in front of the first Maybelline office-warehouse in Chicago, 1916.  The family lived upstairs in an apartment and worked down stairs packing and shipping Lash-Brow-Ine, than Maybelline through mail order.

The Williams Family, Preston, Mabel, Tom Lyle, Tom Lyle Jr., Bennie (Tom Lyle Jr's mother,)  Frances and her sister Ellie.  Chicago, 1916 in Tom Lyle's new car, The Paige Detroit.

Check out a video of author Sharrie Williams and her cousin Chuck Williams discussing Tom Lyle on his 115th Birthday, (Jan 19, 1996, he died in 1976,)  Chuck's grandmother Frances is in the picture, his grandfather Noel took the picture.

Read more about Tom Lyle, The Maybelline Company and Family in The Maybelline Story.