Five Brothers and a War

Model A Ford

Of course, in the van Pelt household, seven people had to be accommodated in a car meant for two, or four at the most, so Bertus had to sit on his mother’s lap in the front passenger seat, Kees had to lie down on the shelf behind the driver and passenger seats, and the three older boys, Leen, Piet and Jan, had to squeeze in the narrow rumble seat.

van Pelt

The shelf behind the front seats had to serve as the riding place for Kees. Needless to say, seatbelts were not a part of the equation—for decades yet to come.

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