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Name: ENGELBRECHT, Carl Lauwrens 'Fairy'

Birth Date: 1883 S. Africa

Death Date: 27 Jan 1946 Kitale

First Date: 1922

Profession: Farmer, mail runner

Area: 1922 Farm 946 Hoey's Bridge Kitale

Book Reference: Red 25, Hut, Red 22, Medals, Barnes, KAD, Contact

General Information:

?Carolus Louwrens - Kenya Regiment 6910 and Carolius Laurens KR 4971
Medals - East African Intelligence Department - Carl F.L. Engelbrecht, EA Transport Corps, No. 1544, Serjeant
Barnes - Kitale Cemetery - C F L Engelbrecht - died 27 Jan 1946
Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Plateau North - C F L Englebrecht, Farmer, PO Kitale
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Trans Nzoia Voters List
Contact - March 1978 - Article re. "JJ" Hughes - ……. Other pioneers personalised their T's [Model T Ford] in different ways. 'Fairy' Englebrecht, who had not earned his nickname for his good looks, ran a Model T on the Kisumu to Eldoret mail run. He fitted special shock absorbers, clamp-on bumpers, a crankcase support and Handy-Pandy luggage carriers - racks attached to the running boards. On one occasion, in the Kaimosi Forest when a front wheel collapsed, he made a new one by hacking down suitable branches with a panga and with a red-hot pipe heated on a charcoal fire by the road side, bored the necessary holes for the hub attachment. The wheel was strong enough to last for 2 months until a replacement spare became available. This resourcefulness was to stand "Fairy" in good stead when, in 1936, together with Fred Hopley, he won the Nairobi to Johannesburg Road Race, an event staged to celebrate the Golden City's Jubilee.

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