Sheep magazine Archive 2: issues 10-17

HUMBER SUPER SNIPE:
Did it really happen?
When I was a boy, living down Manor View Road in Hillary I
remember an occasion when all logic and sense left for one day.
This may seem a strange thing to say about 1950s South Africa
where all logic and sense had already abandoned the country long
ago … but, well, I am speaking here of an incident witnessed by a
boy of 8 so, in my memory, it was a crazy day.
Mr Van der Beer, often left his car half way up his drive, doors open
and keys in the ignition when he had been out drinking. It was a
1952 Humber Super Snipe, black and shiny with a running board
that some of the older kids climbed on when Mr Van was not about.
There were not many cars down Manor View Road and Mr Van’s
was the best, seemingly admired by all.
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Anyway, one Saturday morning a group of us kids found Mr Van’s
car in the road, up on bricks and all four wheels missing. Seemed
to us that Mr Van had not even made it to his driveway and
someone had stolen his wheels … we wondered why whoever had
taken the wheels had not just stolen the car which was open to the
world with keys in ignition.
JULY & AUGUST 2016