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inwards 1898 Mijndert Pon opened upwards a store inwards Amersfoort, a town inwards the Netherlands, a reason on the northwest edge of German, selling sewing machines in addition to a few years after he added Opel bicycles, both pedal operated in addition to motorized, to the store’s lineup in addition to inwards the 1920s the business solid started selling Ford in addition to Opel automobiles along amongst Continental tires.
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In Apr 23, 1947 coming together amongst the Brits running Volkswagen at the time, they noticed a “Plattenwagen” at the VW works, an strange looking utility vehicle amongst a flatbed, based on Type i mechanicals.
Pon drew out a box shaped cabin over the raise engined Beetle chassis, putting the driver in addition to rider inwards a cabover seat at the extreme forepart of the vehicle. While non a large vehicle, it could acquit a large amount of cargo (or passengers) inwards the infinite inwards betwixt the driver in addition to the drivetrain. Pon specified that it should accept an empty weight of 750 kilograms amongst an equal freight capacity.
Following upwards on Pon’s idea, New York based Max Hoffman started to import Beetles to the USA inwards earnest inwards 1950, beingness successful plenty inwards establishing the build that Volkswagen of America was laid up, in addition to the mill took over importing in addition to distributing Beetles here.
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