In 1904 Christian Hausser and his sons Max and Otto founded the HAUSSER company, although it initially was named Müller & Freyer. Starting from 1912 the company was renamed into O&M Hausser. They carried the trade name Elastolin. In the 1930's the company moved to Neustadt bei Coburg. Like all toy producers, they had to stop production in 1943 by order of the NAZI regime and started again in 1947.
One piece solid elastolin VWs with wheels and very little body detailing. Used as game pieces (8) in the board game AUF DER REICHSAUTOBAHN DURCH GROSSDEUTSCHLAND. The box art showed a colorful Autobahn with a bus, trucks and cars speeding by. Game board shows a colorful map of Germany with Autobahns and the game pieces moved on the map according to the dice throw.
