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A cast aluminium body with solid windows and lights that are painted dull silver. There is a casting seam running along the center roofline. Metal base plate with clockwerk motor, tin wheels on metal axles with front steering.  Base plate stamped “Made In Germany.” Although there is room for a ...

A very delicate glass Christmas tree ornament in the shape of a Split VW Beetle. The seams of the doors, windows, bonnets, headlights and hubcaps are painted gold....

ESEM (Erzgebirgische Schnittwerkzeug- und Maschinenfabrik GmbH Schwarzenberg) was founded in 1908 in Schwarzenberg, Germany, a town well known for its metal production. In 1927, modernization began with the introduction of a fully automatic copy‑milling machine. This made it possible to produce com...

The Volkswagen factory (VW Versuchsbau) has produced this 1937 model  V3/2 in 2008. This model was milled (on basis of the CAD data of the original V3/2) from 1 piece of resin with the wheels separately attached to the body. It is not known what the exact reason was to produce these models. To...

Major Ivan Hirst ordered in 1946/47 the design of an aluminum promotional gift for business relations and valued workers at the VW factory. They used aluminum because there was no shortage of scrap aluminum from dismantled airplanes. A mould was made and the model was presented to Major Hirst for a...

On June 22, 1934 “Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche GmbH, Konstruktionen und Beratung für Motoren- und Fahrzeugbau” received the final order from the “Reichsverband der Automobilindustrie (RDA)” (the Association of the German Reich of the Automotive Industry) to construct and build the Volkswagen. It was mea...

A very nice, desirable, and seldom found one piece cast aluminum hollow body with solid windows and a slit in the roof as it was designed by Hans Weber for a KdF Sparkasse (savings bank). Hans Weber was based in Spenge in Westfalen, Germany in the Adolf Hitlerstrasse 253. A cast aluminum base plate&...