HITLER’S CAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 January 1939, Page 6

HITLER’S CAR

NONE FOR ANOTHER YEAR. In spite of the great reception given to the Volkswagen, the German car for the people, it is reported that models will not be available for a long time yet. ■ Up to the beginning of October orders for 130,000 had been received. The first will be delivered about the beginning of the year 1940. Over half the orders have been placed by persons earning under 300 marks a month. The works at Brunswick are almost completed, and 4000 workmen are busy with the large works at Fallersleben. Production arrangements are such that two Volkswagen will leave the works per minute, passing through a tunnel to the track where they will make their first test.

The workers engaged in building the factory include 2500 Italians and several hundred men from Holland and Danzig. The workers are accommodated in barracks, there being no town sufficiently near for quarters, and board and lodging cost about a mark per head per day. Each of the small barracks contains' six rooms for 108 men, and five or six such barracks form an encampment.

The Mittelland Canal, just opened, will be of special value for transporting the cars, while an autobahn is near by. Air raid precautions have not been forgotten either —the bomb and gasproof cellar will bouse the staff. Full output capacity ot some half-million cars a year will not be reached until 1946.