Re: [MV] Weare VW pictures

Renaud OLGIATI (rolgiati@conexion.com.py)
Tue, 30 Sep 1997 13:47:37 -0500

At 12:07 30/09/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Glenn, A WWII bug also would have had a roller instead of a front bumper
and semaphore (spelling?) turn signals. I believe some were also 4 wheel
drive.

Beetle-bodied military VWs were usually devoid of any turn-indicators.
As for the front-roller, this was featured only by the two type 92
derivatives, known as Type 287, that were produced in 1945 for the French
Army; they asked for the roller, probably being used to such aids to
off-road driving on the Laffly and Latil pre-war army vehicles.

Sadly, the jigs and press tools necessary to produce the Schwimmwagen
front-axle which was used also by the four-wheel drive beetles were by then
lost in the Russian occupation zone, and that project, of producing 4x4
beetles for the French forces, came to nothing.

Ron the Frog, in Darkest Paraguay.

I think... I think it's in my basement...
Let me go upstairs and check.
-- Escher
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