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Karmann
Ghia number 100 to be produced by Karmann Ghia do Brasil was produced
at their huge factory in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo,
in August 1962
A
Deutsche Bundesbahn V200-Class diesel-hydraulic locomotive heads a block
train of new Type 2 campers from the Westfalia factory in Wiedenbrück
sometime in the mid 1970s
Wolfsburg,
August 1970. A freshly painted green Volkswagen Type 181 on the line.
Known as Trekker (UK), Safari (Mexico) or Thing (USA)
On
the paint line, spraying the colour onto a split-window deluxe bodyshell
with sunroof at Volkswagenwerk Wolfsburg, 1952
"Das
Volkswagenwerk uun wir" - The Volkswagen factory and us. The debut
issue of the factory journal of the Volkswagenwerk GmbH, dated April 1942
VW
1303 roof panels emerge from huge presses that have stamped out the front
and rear window apertures in the press shop at the Wolfsburg plant
A
large consignment of North American-specification Volkswagens at an unknown
port during 1966. While most of the cars are Type 1, 2 and 3, there are
a handful of Karmann Ghia VW Type 14 and 34 models too
Completed
Volkswagens reach the end of the line in the final assembly hall at Wolfsburg
Motor Works, as the factory was known under British Army management, sometime
in 1948 or 1949
Headlamp
beam alignment check in the final assembly hall at Wolfsburg during the
1968 model year
Type
2 final assembly at the Volkswagen Transporterwerk in Hannover
New
air-cooled Volkswagens waiting for export to Canada at the German port
of Emden in 1971. The two brightly coloured Beetles painted in "Hippie
Green" and "Poplila Lilac". These were special edition
"Pop Beetles" that were produced to test the market for the
popularity of brighter colours
Driverless
Transporters move slowly and silently down the long automated conveyor
exit ramp from the final assembly hall at Volkswagenwerk Hannover
The
first final shape Kdf Wagens body were hand-produced at Reutter Stuttgart
because the Wolfsburg factory was not yet built
A
bodyshell in primer of a Karmann Ghia TC coupé (Volkswagen Type
145) is moved at the Karmann Ghia do Brasil plant in São Bernardo
do Campo in São Paulo
Fenders
and other body panels as far as the eye can see, stored in a hall at Volkswagen's
Wolfsburg plant
The
first production cars finally came off the line and shown to the press
on July 1941. However, it was not series production in the true sense
as the cars were largely made by hand
Volkswagen
employees make their way along Südstraße at the Wolfsburg plant
in July 1951 with a new split-window sunroof model parked opposite Sektor
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Kubelwagens
and Kdf wagens at Wolfsburg in winter 1943
The
100,000th Volkswagen export car, August 1952. The car was exported from
Wolfsburg to the Netherlands and allocated by VW importer Pon to the Hoogenboom
dealer group
Wet
sanding of Beetle 'Zwitter' models at Wolfsburg, taken sometime between
October 1952 and March 1953
Images courtesy of Volkswagen Factory Pictures
