Transport in Stone

You only have to look around to find a pre-war car. And looking is just what Henk Schuuring did when he took a stroll in Amsterdam. On the façade of the Parkhotel, situated between Vondelpark and Rijksmuseum, he saw several stone tablets. Three of them depict ancient forms of transportation and four the ‘modern’ way: the motor car; the train; the ship and strangely enough the fourth is not an aeroplane but a Zeppelin. As the Parkhotel was built in 1876, these stone carvings must be an addition from the early days of the 20th century when Braunbeck's Sportlexikon came out:"Automobilismus, Motorbootwesen & Luftschiffahrt" ('Cars, Motorboats & Airships'). (photo’s Henk Schuuring). (RB)

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