My father used to own

a Borgward, the barely remembered German car, which once was as popular and reliable as Volkswagen and Mercedes, but went bankrupt at the beginning of the 60's.
There is a Borgward street in Windhoek, in Khomasdal, which I had never bothered to drive down until this weekend. Intriguingly, it still looks like a street from the 50's - old houses and bars straddling an overgrown riverbed. Do any of the residents have any idea why their street was so named? Did the planner who laid out the township possess one? There is also an Edsel street, a Dodge street and a Rolls-Royce street, showing how these long dead marques once were the best known names in motoring.