A 1953 Volkswagen Export Type I Beetle Size:XL: 100 x 75cm with figures and horse-drawn carriage

with figures and horse-drawn carriage

National Discount Company's offices

The Glass of Wine

In the foreground a woman guides a child along the top of a wall

Poster advertising Mercedes-Benz Cabriolet D cars

A 1953 Volkswagen Export Type I Beetle Size:XL: 100 x 75cm with figures and horse-drawn carriageA 1953 Volkswagen Export Type I Beetle. This example was presented to Lord Montagu of the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu in 1963, to commemorate the sale of the first 100,000 cars in Britain. Ferdinand Porsche produced ancestral KdF wagen prototypes in 1935. Batches of pre production versions followed, before manufacture began in 1939, adapted for military use. Adolf Hitler advised that the Volkswagen People's Car be streamlined to 'look like a