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15
new VW Combis with roof lights ready for delivery to the Technisches Hilfswerk.
They are parked at the western end of the Volkswagen Transporterwerk in
Hannover-Stöcken and are painted in THW blue livery with body-coloured
bumpers and hubcaps
The
front entrance of Volkswagen Australia Pty Ltd located at 27 Waterloo
Road, North Ryde, New South Wales. Australia built air-cooled Volkswagens
from 1954 to 1976 at a factory in Clayton, a suburb of Melbourne in the
state of Victoria
Beetle
Cabriolet bodies are passing over the assembly line of notchback Porsche
356s at the Karmann factory in Osnabrück, Germany
Part
of a day's production at the Puebla plant of Volkswagen de Mexico in 1969
A
beautiful barn-door VW "Samba" on the VW-Südstraße,
in 1954
Heinrich
Nordhoff was speaking to his crowd of workers in the Wolfsburg factory,
during the celebration of the 1 Millionth Volkswagen, on 5th of August,
1955. The unique milestone car was finished in an eye-catching gold paint,
the chrome trim was covered with rhinestones, and the interior was dressed
up in luscious red velvet
A
worker is welding the wheel well on a Transporter body. This is from the
VW South Africa plant, in Uitenhage in 1957
August
1985 - The last Beetles for Europe arrive at Emden from Veracruz, Mexico.
The cars are special final edition Jubilee Beetles bound for Germany,
Italy and Austria
Final
assembly in the Transporterwerk of Volkswagen Hannover sometime in the
1960s
Engine
installation and joining the floorpan with the body. Notice the lack of
heat exchangers. These photos are from São Bernardo do Campo in
the 1970s
Beautiful
'Lowlight' VW Type 14 Karmann Ghia coupes in the final assembly hall at
the Karmann factory in Osnabrück in the mid to late 1950s
The
body trimming and fitting out line at the Wolfsburg plant in 1962. Photo
by Johannes Haile
From
train to ship. Early 60s Volkswagens going out to roam the earth
Paint,
masks and pistols: Spray painting the body by hand at the Wolfsburg factory
in 1949
Fusca
production at the Anchieta plant of Volkswagen do Brasil in 1996. The
last cars rolled off the line in June of that year leaving Mexico as the
final country still building the legendary Type 1
Early
Transporters, aka 'Barn door', due to the large engine door, and no rear
hatch door. This was a feature for the earliest Transporters, which were
built in Wolfsburg
The
long Type 1 roof production line in the vast press shop at Volkswagen's
Wolfsburg plant was very impressive. The equipment could form, punch and
weld cold-rolled steel sheets into finished roof sections at a rate of
240 units per hour
An
operator controls the arrival of painted bodies on an overhead chain conveyor
into the hall for trimming and fitting out at Volkswagenwerk Wolfsburg
Shiny
split window Beetles are getting married. Marriage is the term used in
the car factories for when the body gets attached to the frame, or in
modern days, when the engine, gearbox and front suspension is installed
Volkswagen
Type 1 bodies-in-white (bare metal) being assembled at the Wolfsburg plant
in the early 1960s. Note the bodyshells are mounted transversely on the
line
Images courtesy of Volkswagen Factory Pictures
