This German vehicle is as common today as it was when it be launched at the end of World War II with lots of versions of the >VW camper being restored.
During WW2 the Wolfsberg factory was in use over by the British, to ensure the German engineers might no longer manufacture weapons and vehicles for their armed forces. The Volkswagen factory ran extremely well previous to and after the conflict, however it had a glitch which meant manufacture suffered in the early years. The German car plant wanted to transport parts from one side of the factory to the extra anightmare for engineers and mechanics,however this was solved by stripping behind a couple of Beetle cars and loading them and ferrying the parts beginning one side to the other, essentially rotary them into transporters.
In 1947 an importer starting the Netherlands Ben Pon an importer sketched a picture bearing a striking similarity to the Beetle based van from Wolfsberg. Two years later a related vehicle to the sketch was unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show, public were amazed and in essence were seeing an before time version of the camper, they immediately drew the finish it was a horse and cart with mechanics.
The initial VW camper van was born from this concept. This idea in progress life as a box on wheels, a170 cubic ft box built over a four wheeled framework. Above five years 90 versions were released all from delivery to ice cream vans, approximately 50 were purely for delivery purposes ranging from mobile milking machinery to milk floats & mobile veterinaries.
The urgent situation services even jumped on the band wagon Police, fire, ambulances all camper based.
As soon as these unique vehicles were released in the USA around the mid 1950's, they flew. The camper was a real home from home it came through a sink & large living space. By 1963 US people had bought well over 150,000 campers.
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