in production at the time. map that s what christoph continues and the autumn of 1948. i make nor to approve the construction of a utility van designed to carry a 750 kilogram payload based on the dependable v.w. beetle but it was not that easy nor cheap as it happened the beetle chassis tended to break up under a full load on the poor quality road so the time off from. the beatles platform chassis wasn t strong enough to handle the want to have tons of a fully loaded transporter. so v.w. since he nears gave the van a new ladder frame chassis with a unitized body but the axles engine and many other parts were still taken from the middle it was 950 and all they needed was the right name. but it continued christophe explains that in germany the v.w. bus is known as the bully that word combination from buzz and the german word leaf
v.w. bus called simply the t one. driver christophe powers taking one of the more than 1800000 t. ones built for a spin the v.w. bus was the right vehicle at the right time. no i didn t know that christophe recalls its history starting in 1947 as west germany was still rebuilding from the 2nd world war back then trades people urgently needed a practical utility van to carry their tools and materials from a to b. despite the massive damage at the v.w. plan and borg a solution was eventually found. at the time v.w. workers were carrying parts of materials with a transporter they d built themselves by putting a simple flat bed on a beetle chassis and engine. the parts carrier inspired visiting dead porter then pawns to sketch what would become the v.w. bus the engineering was based entirely on the still new beetle the only v.w.