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Bundesbahn Class 10 steam locomotive pulling an express, passes a double-deck
Volkswagen transport train under the Raabe Bridge in Kassel-Kirchditmold
A
fully packed employee's parking lot at Volkswagenwerk Kassel, around 1963
or 1964
Bodies
are dipped into the primer bath at the Anchieta plant of Volkswagen do
Brasil in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, in the 1960s
Volkswagen
Type 2 'Barndoor' models in various stages of production in early 1953
at Wolfsburg
It
was the ambition of Major Ivan Hirst, the Senior Resident Officer of the
Volkswagen plant, known at the time as Wolfsburg Motor Works, to increase
production to 1,000 cars a month
Photo
shows the new car parking yard at Wilhelm Karmann in Osnabrück where
we see a colourful assortment of Type 14 and Type 34 Karmann Ghias, plus
a few Beetle convertibles about to depart on a train for distribution
far and wide
Workers
at the Karmann plant are busy with a coach built Type 34 Karmann Ghia
A
new VW Type 3 Notchback is hoisted off a cargo ship in Norway for onward
transport by the official VW importer and distributor Harald A Møller
1968 Model Year Volkswagens emerging from final assembly Hall 12 at Wolfsburg
on the two automated conveyor ramps on the north side of the factory.
Once at the bottom, drivers would jump into the cars, start the engines
and drive them to the holding area for onward transit to dealers and ports
by train and truck.
New
Volkswagens wait on a double-deck rail wagon in a train yard somewhere
in Germany - possibly Wolfsburg - in the mid-1960s
Done
and dusted: Another Volkswagen is ready to roll from the end of Line 1
in final assembly Hall 12 at the factory in Wolfsburg in this colour view
from 1958
A
nicely dressed lady is talking to the truck driver. The truck is outside
an AMAG building, the importer of VWs to Switzerland. This photo is from
the 1950s, as the Beetles has an oval rear window
Brightly
painted 1967 model year bodies suspended from overhead conveyor chains
moving through a busy intersection in a production hall at Volkswagenwerk
Wolfsburg
Type
1 and 2 final assembly lines in the mid-1950s at D'leteren in Brussels
(Volkswagen Brussels from 1970) in the Vorst (Forest) district of the
city
Karmann
Ghia do Brasil produced this model of Ghia from 1962 to 1972 with 23,402
examples rolling from the assembly lines, including 177 convertibles
An
export Beetle gets a windshield clean on the assembly line at WOB in 1950
A
long line of new cars await onward transport in the new vehicle holding
yard at the Volkswagen de Mexico plant in Puebla in the early 1990s
The
first deliveries took place of Volkswagen's Type 147 Kleinlieferwagen
on 9 March 1965. Nicknamed 'Fridolin' the van was developed specially
for use by Deutsche Bundespost and mechanically based on the Type 1 using
the slightly wider Karmann Ghia chassis
Stacking
freshly stamped front lids at Volkswagenwerk Wolfsburg in 1949
Workers
are busy with loading Beetles on a cargo ship. Even though RoRo ships
had been introduced more than 10 years earlier, many ships were still
loading the old fashioned way
