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An
assortment of Volkswagens outside the Volkswagen Australasia factory in
Clayton, Victoria, in the very early 1970s
Italian
workers in the body assembly department. Wolfsburg, 1962. Photo courtesy
of Benno Wundshammer
A
dozen new factory-fresh right-hand drive Volkswagen Camat (Type 182) in
Indonesia. The factory producing them under license from Volkswagen -
PT Motor Manufacturing - was in Wanaherang, around 60 km from Jakarta
A
Volkswagen Inspector checks a Type 2 Transporter in the final assembly
hall in 1962
Assembly
of the ventilation window glass to its frame. One of the workers is holding
the rubber gasket strips, while the other has a stack of glass in front
of her. Wolfsburg, 1962
A
prototype Kübelwagen pictured at Porsche Werk 1 in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen
in September 1939. Photo courtesy of Patrik Rendahl
Ten
black Split Window Beetles lined up at the import facilities of Porsche
Konstruktion GesmbH in Salzburg, Austria, while a grey Beetle is driving
out through the gate
Painted
body shells move to the fitting out hall at the Wolfsburg plant around
1959
Final
assembly at the Volkswagenwerk in Wolfsburg in 1945. Note the Kübelwagen
rear lamp fitted to the engine lid
One
of many workers in the Volkswagen factory at Wolfsburg is pictured smiling
at her workstation in the early to mid-1950s
VW
Type 2 bodies-in-white being assembled at Volkswagenwerk Wolfsburg in
1953 and almost ready to be de-burred, dipped, wet-sanded and painted
Newly
completed ambulances for the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (German Red Cross)
parked outside the Transporterwerk at Hannover-Stöcken in the 1960s
Beetles
above and Type 3 Notchbacks below. Unpainted 'bodies-in-white' are moved
through the Volkswagen factory at Wolfsburg in the early 1960s
Completed
cars at the end of the assembly lines at Volkswagenwerk Wolfsburg sometime
during the 1967 model year which was the first year that US-specification
Beetles were fitted with upright headlamps, as can be seen on the red
car in the foreground
Installation
of the electric's and interior trim on a body shell in the fitting out
/ final assembly hall at Volkswagenwerk Wolfsburg in 1953
Completed
Volkswagen T2a Buses in the final assembly hall of the Transporterwerk
at Hannover-Stöcken in 1970
A
completed Volkswagen undergoes a dyno test on the rolling road at the
end of the production line in the final assembly hall at the Volkswagen
de Mexico plant in Puebla, 1975
A
sea of new and colorful Volkswagens pictured in final assembly Hall 12
at Volkswagenwerk Wolfsburg in 1957 during the final months of oval-window
Beetle production
Volkswagen
workers are on their way home and hurry across Südstrasse in front
of the Wolfsburg factory sometime in the early 1970s
Oval-window
CKD production at Volkswagen do Brasil, Ipiranga-SP, Brazil