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Watch: This week we join Oom Willem on a historical auto tour of Holland in 1927 (Film 4)

Vintage cars and Dutch waterways: a 1927 journey

By Anton van Zyl, Andries van Zyl • 21 June 2025
Watch: This week we join Oom Willem on a historical auto tour of Holland in 1927 (Film 4)

Join Oom Willem van den Berg's 1927 "Auto Tour" through the Netherlands! Witness a Ford Model T win a race, explore charming Giethoorn and Hindeloopen, visit Menkemaborg Castle & gardens, and relax at Hotel B Dommering.

In our fourth episode of the series about Oom Willem van den Berg’s travels in the early 1900s, we join him on a visit to the Netherlands. Last week, we covered the boat trip up the east coast of Africa that ended in Europe, but this week’s episode is not necessarily a continuation of that trip.

Every film reel is a surprise, and we do not really know where the journey will start or end. Most of the reels are not clearly marked, and we have to work from cryptic notes made on the reels, ...

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