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The plant became the production site for the automobile demanded by Adolf Hitler for broad sections of the population. The basis for this "people's car", the "Volkswagen" or simply VW, was the contract concluded on 22 June 1934, between the Reich Association of the Automotive Industry and Ferdinand Porsche's Stuttgart design office.
Karl Benz's 1885 Patent Motorwagen (replica). It is considered the world's first I.C.E.-driven car to be series-produced. Opel Olympia (1935–1937). Motor-car pioneers Karl Benz (who later went on to start Mercedes-Benz) and Nicolaus Otto developed four-stroke internal combustion engines in the late 1870s; Benz fitted his design to a coach in 1887, which led to the modern-day motor car.
Ford Rheinland 1932. In March 1929 General Motors purchased a controlling 80% holding in Opel. Henry Ford's reaction was a prompt decision to build a complete Ford auto-factory in Germany, and before the end of 1929 a site at Cologne made available by the mayor of the city, Konrad Adenauer, [4] was acquired by Ford. [5]
Manufacturers cite the program as a way to build customer loyalty, as few customers ever forget the European delivery experience or experience buyer's remorse. If combined with a vacation that was going to be had anyway, the European delivery program saves the traveler the cost of renting a car while in Europe.
The Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg. The term German model is most often used in economics to describe post-World War II West Germany's means of using (according to University College London Professor Wendy Carlin) innovative industrial relations, vocational training, and closer relationships between the financial and industrial sectors to cultivate economic prosperity. [1]
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The company was founded in Rüsselsheim, Hesse, Germany, on 21 January 1862, by German-French [10] entrepreneur Adam Opel.In the beginning, Opel produced sewing machines. ...