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When Dutch Volkswagen importer Ben Pon visited the Wolfsburg factory in 1947, he spotted a Plattenwagen based on the Volkswagen Beetle. This gave him the idea for a Volkswagen commercial, the future Transporter. Around the year 1954 I watched a BBC Television programme about WW2 and I recall it said that immediately after WW2 the British government sent motor engineers to Germany. It also said that Germany was in ruins and there was an essential requirement for a motor vehicle for farmers to aid a terrible lack of food production. It said, what farmes needed was a van to carry eggs or wheat chickens and the occasional pig from one place to another. The article said, There were a number of pre war VW engines at the factory. A British engineer Produced a dwawing of a plan for a chasssis of a commercial vehicle. I understood, that was the basis of a van version and a flatbed van. Plattenwagen pt:Plattenwagen |
