| The Whisky Cars |
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A German ship had loaded cargo in
Germany. The cargo was steel pipes and from Germany the trip was to
England to load whisky and P1800 cars, apparently two things that make
life worth living. The intention was to put the cars upon the steel tubes
and the cars were packed on wooden frames. After leaving the loading
harbor, still on the Thames River, things turned out very badly, so badly
that the ship took in a lot of salt water and following my sources it was
so bad that the ship had to be abandoned on the river.
After a while the ship was taken to the dock and the guardsmen watched the ship very efficiently as they thought people should steal whiskey from the cargo. Eye witnesses and Volvo people still remember the odor from the whiskey and all the cars were impregnated with whiskey and salt water, but the salt water didn't smell! What did then happen to these special cars? None can advice, no car went to the bottom of the Thames, no car was sold in the market and they didn't go to any scrap yard. It is very mysterious, apparently Jensens had to reprint new serials not to have a gap in the serial sequence and this finally leads to the matter that a few more cars have been manufactured on the top of the official number of coupes. Jan O Hoegmark |