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Subject: Early 50's VW vehicle anecdotes please. 7/3/2023, 08:54
I've has such a great response form this forum in trying to trace history and locations for there early Volkswagen beetles produced for the BAoR. There seem to be about a dozen 50-52 split rear window cars out there and a few 53-57 oval window too. I would like to collect anecdotes from anyone there at the time or with family members who were. They seem according to Volkswagens records department to have been sent to 17 Vehicle Company (17VB) and 151 Company (151coy). But must have been in se all over the British sector. So please, feel free to post any information here, no mater how small. it all helps to build a picture. Thanks Sinclair.
luja2627 Private
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Subject: Re: Early 50's VW vehicle anecdotes please. 5/4/2023, 15:09
Hello Sinclar I am the proud owner of an 1950 CCG-RAF Beetle. Please contact via email: ccc.muc@web.de. Lutz
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Subject: Re: Early 50's VW vehicle anecdotes please. 6/4/2023, 14:23
entry from 24Mar 2019 and Alan Yates report from Mar 2019
Thanks for that
Sinclair LCpl
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Subject: Re: Early 50's VW vehicle anecdotes please. 6/4/2023, 19:43
luja2627 wrote:
Hello Sinclar I am the proud owner of an 1950 CCG-RAF Beetle. Please contact via email: ccc.muc@web.de. Lutz
Cool. I did try your email.
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Subject: Re: Early 50's VW vehicle anecdotes please. 6/4/2023, 22:41
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Subject: Re: Early 50's VW vehicle anecdotes please. 8/4/2023, 16:10
A little earlier: CCG Civilian Disciplinary Convictions Notified in: Routine Order 61/702 dated 11 Dec 1947 Offence: Unauthorised possession of a Volkswagen Award: 6 months Imprisonment
Control Commission for Germany Routine Orders. Sourced in UK National Archives file FO1876
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Subject: Re: Early 50's VW vehicle anecdotes please. 24/4/2023, 03:38
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Subject: Re: Early 50's VW vehicle anecdotes please. 10/5/2023, 15:32
Or outside the wire:
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Subject: Re: Early 50's VW vehicle anecdotes please. 13/5/2023, 13:54
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Subject: Re: Early 50's VW vehicle anecdotes please. 27/5/2023, 10:43
All taken Copied from PINTREST
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Subject: Re: Early 50's VW vehicle anecdotes please. 8/6/2023, 09:08
Going to Army Caravan Quarters in a BAOR VW Beetle. Those were the days!
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Subject: Re: Early 50's VW vehicle anecdotes please. 8/6/2023, 11:33
At least one of those caravans was still in use on Bad Lippspringe airfield in 2012 - field office.
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Subject: Re: Early 50's VW vehicle anecdotes please. 11/6/2023, 10:31
See next posting re these VW
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Subject: Re: Early 50's VW vehicle anecdotes please. 12/6/2023, 01:23
Kennzeichnung:
III A Neckarkreis (Polizeidirektion Stuttgart) (1906 - 1945)
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Subject: Polizei Beetle 4/7/2023, 11:03
Frequent appearances in NDR Show "Neues aus Büttenwarder"
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Subject: Re: Early 50's VW vehicle anecdotes please. 11/7/2023, 23:56
Lunch break and motors pooled, even a Citroen?
when we used to have snow . . .
inside Normandy Barracks Sennelager - this building was used by the Wehrmacht to service (Tiger /Panther) tank turrets, in the picture it was operated by the Church Army as a tea stop and newspaper sales point - immediately North of and opposite the NAAFI canteen/bar/shop. NAAFI is still there, CVWW (Salvation Army, Church Army, Toc H) outlets all met a slow demise.
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Subject: Exported Beetle 31/8/2023, 02:59
From an american source - still a likeable Beetle:
"What feature in your car did you not realize you had until someone else told you about it?
I bought my first car , an old VW Beetle, for $250 in 1963. I ran out of gas 75 miles from my house way out in the boonies, got out of my car and waved at passing motorists for help. One fellow stopped and asked me what the problem was and I said I was out of gas. He asked me if I turned on the RESERVE GAS TANK HANDLE. I had never heard of that, and he reached under my dash board and he turned a metal handle. I now had an extra two gallons of gas. I have never run out of gas again." --
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