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.. Nulla tenaci invia est via; for the persistent no road is impassable… The sturdy slogan of a tiny Dutch automobile factory which recently fled to England. The story;a planner from the East of Holland designed and tinkered nine years at a small twoseater in a shed next to his ancestral home and called it Silvestris. A self-proclaimed entrepreneur from the West heard about it, travelled gallop East and convinced the planner to market his cute hobbyproduct as a super sports car. The little one became a Spyker, which means iron nail in Dutch, named after a coachbuilder before WWI with ample aviation history. Nevertheless the present logo has a wooden propellor and -wheel. A Spyker relic that pops up once a year at Taxday is The Golden Coach. A gift from unemployed workers during the (B)ig (D)epression to Queen Wilhelmina – in her time already one of the richest women in the world who also escaped to England before the next war started. Nine years later. The assembly hall of our entrepreneur, whose (B)iggest (D)ream he heralded that every boy should have a Spyker-poster on the wall of his room, is empty. Big Mouth Victor M. is sunbathing in the South of Spain and doesn’t think (or dares) about travelling North. The Golden Coach of King Willem needs expensive repairs and again; docile taxpayers pay the bills ..
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From the book VDM. © Freddy Rikken
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