Stop! Police!

From the family album of Arie van der Hoeve(NL). This time his wife Gers in the driver's seat of an 1926 Amilcar CGS3 (ed.: earlier we saw her posing with a Lancia Augusta). Picture was made in the late twenties at the Scheveningen Boulevard (The Hague, NL)(Camemerama.demon.nl). When Arie had acquired the beast he could not get the speed any higher than 60 km/hour. Around that speed the Amilcar started to shake heavily and just left the road. After some tuning and balancing the drive shaft it could manage a genuine 90 km/hour but alas! no brakes to match. Gers was frequently piloting the Amilcar but always had problems with the brakes. One day when picking up somebody from a train station it all went wrong. To be able to collect the luggage she thought it to be good practise to drive the car up the platform. Once at the platform the brakes failed and she ran over all the unloaded suitcases almost ending on the train track. One day driving through Arnhem she was waved by a policeman to stop. Again she could not stop and just carried on shouting to the police man: “Sorry sir, can’t stop!!”. (photos & story from the collection of Bas de Voogd)

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