[T2] This Day in History 1950: der BulliBurst

[Robert Mann]

Automotive

1950 : VW bus, icon of counterculture movement, goes into production
<http://click.email-updates.history.com/?qs=62caa288d2f2038a0b2006814ccfa407043631e77fd190059cdc3ccfa26c9e1a9c698d3e7ad7a063> 
 
	http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/vw-bus-icon-of-counterculture-movement-goes-into-production

=======

	At a classic car race mtg on the weekend I was told by a 
Jowett Jupiter driver (who had come 4th in his class  -  coming up in 
the world for that ingenious but not overpowered vehicle  -  that F 
Porsche only got the task of developing the VW engine after it had 
been begun by Walter Moore, an Englishman head-hunted from Norton by 
NSU.  Can anyone confirm or correct this?  It is true that Moore had 
that unusual history; but did NSU take a 'first go' at the People's 
Car? 

-- 
Robt Mann
Whangaparaoa, New Zealand
'73 VW 1600dp Devon camper
'53 Meteor V8
various Jawa-CZ and Jawa-NZ strokers