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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
