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A
VW factory worker is welding the front panel of a Vocho in Puebla, Mexico,
around 2000-2003.
New cars lined up outside the main production hall at Volkswagens
plant in Venezuela.
Volkswagens
headed for New York and New Jersey, at the port of Newark, NJ, 1966.
Vocho
the Mexican Beetle at VW plant in Puebla. In 2001 it was offered in the
very beautiful metallic green color.
A
new 1954 Karman Kabriolett fitted out as a police car parked outside the
main entrance of the original three-storey Verwaltungsgebäude administration
building at the western end of the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg.
Two Dodge trucks from the Swiss importer AMAG loaded with oval ladybugs
in front of the Schinznach-Bad factory.
VW
hubcap plating at the Wolfsburg plant in the late 1950s.
Spray
painting a body shell at Volkswagen Emden, in 1965 or 1966.
A
delivery of new Transporter Combis, pickup trucks and Samba Buses from
Volkswagenwerk Hannover, pictured somewhere in the Netherlands.
Painted
bodyshells arrive in a hall at Volkswagen Emden prior to fitting out and
final assembly in 1969.
The
Palma Sola plant in Venezuela assembled Volkswagens from CKD parts imported
from Germany. The white rims is a feature that the German models did not
have.
Proud Karmann workers are posing with the 3000th Volkswagen Kabriolett,
in December 1950.
Sparks
fly as Beetle bodyshells take shape during automated welding at Volkswagenwerk
Wolfsburg in 1966.
A
Type 14 Karmann Ghia body on the paint line at the Karmann factory in
Osnabruck. A Type 34 Karmann Ghia can be seen behind it, emerging from
the tunnel.
Beetles
at the interior trim line in VW Wolfsburg Germany, somewhere between 1958
and 1960.
Two Wolfsburg factory workers installing the chrome trim on a 1973 Type
3 Variant, or Squareback at it is known by in North America.
Bodyshells
in the final assembly at the Anchieta factory of Volkswagen do Brasil
in Sao Bernardo do Campo, SP, in 1963.
Transporter
body assembly line at the Hannover plant July 10, 1957.
The
RoRo ship Dyvi Atlantic and hundreds of Volkswagens for North America.
This ship was the world's first bespoke car carrier made specifically
for trans-Atlantic voyages. She had a capacity of up to 1375 Volkswagens,
cruised at 17 knots, and made around 14 trips across the sea every year.
The
new car holding yard at the west end of the Wolfsburg factory, sometime
between between April 1950 & March 1951. The large building on the
right is the original Administration building that was demolished in 1959.
Images courtesy of Volkswagen Factory Pictures