First of all, "Het Verkeer" is Dutch for "The Traffic". And as we see here, that is not just the vehicles that travel, it is the roads they ride upon. And, sadly, though there is no descriptive text, there is a title "De Snelweg Wordt Aanglego", which means, in English, the highway is being constructed. It`s just a shame that there is not any word of which highway, where.
This was the second collection by Bussink, after ten volumes of "Mijn Land" (or my homeland), and it retained the same team of author, G. J. Nijland, and illustrators, Wubbo de Jonge and J. Pander.
Our card is actually from the second series of "Het Verkeer", which was issued in 1939, and is divided into three chapters, covering land, water, and air. It is easy to tell the first series, with its blue back, from our second, with a red back. There was also a third series, but not until 1948.
The album, which cost sixty-five cents if it was bought at a supplier, or seventy-five cents if you sent away for it by post, was almost identical to Volume one in the way it looked, but it was in vertical format rather than horizontal. That was a good idea as far as layout was concerned, as it took into account that the second series had only ninety-six standard pictures, with two longer ones, and also two large plates - but it did mean that they did not fit so well on a shelf.
The album gives a date of February 1940, but though the cards were still being issued for a short time after that, the progress of the Second World War stopped them.