Hudson Terraplane

[Meria]

The first car to drive from nairobi to south africa. Hudson Terraplane. 1936

@The.Black.Templar hii ilindungwa free from Magadi rd hadi Cape Town. Journey took 37 days.
Mzee jomo Kenyatta's car, a second-hand 1930s Hudson Terraplane waited for him as he was in detention between 1954-1961. Grass grew around it, but after his release it was reconditioned at the Kenya Police Workshop.

Mzee jomo Kenyatta's car, a second-hand 1930s Hudson Terraplane waited for him as he was in detention between 1954-1961. Grass grew around it, but after his release it was reconditioned at the Kenya Police Workshop.

October 7 1952, 12.48 pm. The Senior most Chief in post independent Kenya Waruhiu, takes one bullet in the mouth and three in the chest inside his terra plane Hudson sedan motor vehicle. Two weeks later, Colonial Governor Sir. Eveline Baring, started a clamp down that ended up in independent Kenya and a genesis of our current political problems.

inakaa hii ndio ilikua Prombox enzi hizo

 

[The.Black.Templar]

Do you know the Mercedes that Moi loved, I think it was also there during times za Kenyatta was actually a gift from Mercedes? Infact all africa presidents got one at that time

 

[Meria]

Do you know the Mercedes that Moi loved, I think it was also there during times za Kenyatta was actually a gift from Mercedes? Infact all africa presidents got one at that time

Mercedes-Benz 600 S Pullman.
Introduced in September 1963, it had very few competitors, these being Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Cadillac Fleetwood 75, the stretched Lehmann-Peterson Lincoln, and the Chrysler Imperial Crown Ghia. Generally, the long-wheel-base (LWB) 600 was intended as chauffeur-driven; many featured a central divider incorporating a powered window between front and rear compartments. Short-wheel-base (SWB) 600 models were designed to be owner-driven.

Apart from the Pope and governments, famous owners of the 600 have included celebrities such as Coco Chanel, Hugh Hefner, Elizabeth Taylor, John Lennon, George Harrison, Jay Kay, Aristotle Onassis, Jack Nicholson, Simon Spies, Ronnie Wood, Bob Jane, Frank Packer, Elvis Presley, Rowan Atkinson and Jeremy Clarkson.[2][3] Communist leaders include Park Chung-hee, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Josip Broz-Tito, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Enver Hoxha, Leonid Brezhnev,[4] Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-Il also owns a landaulet (both seen in the 65th anniversary parade in Pyongyang on October 10, 2010) and religious leader Guru Maharaj Ji. African revolutionaries Idi Amin Dada, Jomo Kenyatta and the former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos had four 600s including a Landaulet, a 1981 bulletproof and a six-door version.

In Senegal, the first regime (1960-1980) under president Leopold Sedar Senghor had in its fleet three 600s, a short wheel base, a long wheel base and a Landaulet. These were later 'replaced' by the W126 based Carat Limousine.

Iran royal court and Iran's Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi owned multiple 600 models that were used for official and personal use of the late Shah and his court. Some of them were sold after the 1979 islamic revolution and 3 of them are in the National Car Museum of Iran in Karaj.

Other notable owners include Saddam Hussein, Sukarno, Frederik Willem de Klerk, Éamon de Valera, and Archbishop Makarios III of Cyprus.

Former Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi, Deng Xiaoping, wife of the first Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai - Deng Yingchao, and the former King of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk when he fled to Beijing after the Cambodian coup of 1970 all used the 600.

 

[Meria]

When the queen came visiting in 1972.

 

[Meria]

Nigeria's military ruler Ibrahim Babangida steps out of a Mercedes Benz 600 Pullman. The Pullman was associated with Strong men in Africa in the 70s and 80s,