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Final
assembly line at Volkswagenwerk Emden with another Beetle heading for
North America
Ferdinand
Porsche and Karl Rabe studying a blueprint of the KdF-Wagen
A
mobile post office demonstrator vehicle based on the Transporter on site
at the west end of Volkswagenwerk Wolfsburg
Quality
control at Volkswagen was as important 75 years ago as it is today. Here
we see water testing on a completed Type 1 body at Wolfsburg in 1949
The
body fitting out line at the Wolfsburg plant in 1962
Volkswagen
Type 1 Cabriolet production at Karmann in Osnabruck
1971
models assembled at the VW plant in Palma Sola, Venezuela. These Beetles
were made by CKD kits imported from Germany. The Venezuelan assembly plant
was active from 1963 to 1982, and assembled various models from both German
and Brazilian origin, such as the Beetle, the Type 3 and the Brasilia
Railroad
cars loaded with 1967 Type 1 models somewhere in Norway
The
end of the assembly line at the Karmann factory in Osnabrück, Germany.
From the bullet turn signals on the Type 14, and the presence of the 914
in the background, this is from late 1969 or early 1970
Speedometers,
fresh out of the box, ready for installation on the Type 1 line at the
Volkswagenwerk in Wolfsburg during the summer of 1953
The
Volkswagen Type 3 was introduced in 1961 and here we see at least two
Notchbacks with their older siblings, the Type 1 Beetle. All new from
the factory on double deck train cars in the early 1960s
Completed
bodies - many painted in dark Cobalt Blue - move off to the Final Assembly
hall in this photo from around 1968/69
60
years ago: Volkswagen 50,000 for Finland outside the Stockmann department
store on Aleksanterinkatu in Helsinki at the end of November 1964
A
Type 2 Kombi enters the drying booth in the paint shop at the Anchieta
factory of Volkswagen do Brasil
Dipping
a bare metal bodyshell of a 'Vocho' at the Puebla plant of Volkswagen
de Mexico in 2003 during the final months of production
This
split-window Beetle bodyshell looks like it is smiling as it waits for
the painting crew to start spraying in this photo from the paint shop
at the Wolfsburg factory around 1948
MV
Bremer Banken, headed for Landskrona, Sweden, dated October 1961. This
was the first ship with Volkswagens headed for the town of Landskrona
Final
assembly at Wolfsburg. A 1962 model Beetle in Ruby Red nears completion
towards the end of the line
A
Schwimmwagen undergoing testing in the Max-Eyth-See in Stuttgart
A
casually dressed line worker on the body fitting out line at Wolfsburg
cleans the newly fitted glass before the body heads off to the final assembly
hall
Images courtesy of Volkswagen Factory Pictures
