1950 Volkswagen Sedan, Overhead View Showing Interior

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Artifact Overview

The 1950 Volkswagen press kit included this drawing showing an interior arrangement unfamiliar to Americans -- trunk in front, engine in back. Other carmakers offered rear-engined cars, but the VW design proved to be long-lived.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1950

Creator Notes

Photographed for Volkswagenwerk (Volkswagen of Germany)

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

92.150.9655.16

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of the Family of Henry Austin Clark, Jr.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 7.125 in
Width: 9.5 in

Inscriptions

Stamped on back: VW--PHANTOMBILD
1950 Volkswagen Sedan, Overhead View Showing Interior