Word: stuttgarter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ferdinand Jr. launched their sports-car factory at Gmünd, Austria in 1949, with $50,000 in capital and a first model featuring a souped-up Volkswagen engine, produced only 50 cars in their first year. In 1950 they moved into a former barracks at Stuttgart, developed a series of hand-tooled, air-cooled engines that range today from 44 to 115 h.p., and expanded to the present line of 16 models. The elder Porsche died in 1951, but sales continued to climb under the direction of son Ferry, a square-faced man of 46 who owned his first...
...Stuttgart plant (400 workers, 250 engineers) is currently producing only 300 cars a month, which is far below demand; at last week's show alone, Porsche salesmen took 200 orders. Ferry Porsche doggedly refuses to expand his sports-car output for fear of hurting the quality, but he is tinkering with prototypes of a jeep-type vehicle called "The Hunter," plans eventual production of 500 to 1,000 a month if there is sufficient demand...
Isetta's slogan, which has helped push production to 100 a day: "Less taxes per year (39 marks) than a city dachshund (60 marks)." Still stranger cars are ready to go on sale. One is the egg-shaped Brütsch, named after Stuttgart Designer Egon Brütsch, which stands barely 3 ft. high, has four forward speeds but no reverse, does 67 miles per gallon. Strangest of all is the Dornier Delta, which looks like an old-fashioned electric toaster on wheels; the front and back sections hinge at the top to form doors. The front seats...
Died. Willi Baumeister, 66, topnotch West German nonobjective painter whose work was banned by Hitler; of a stroke; in his Stuttgart studio...
...Army's 499th Combat Engineer Battalion boarded nine C-119 Flying Boxcars at an air base near Stuttgart one afternoon last week. Their mission was to become familiar with the problems and advantages of moving themselves and their equipment by air. Within minutes, the 540 men and their heavy trucks and weapons disappeared into the yawning cargo holds, and the 20-ton planes took off over the Black Forest. It was perfect flying weather. As they flew along in tight formation, one engine of Plane 8 stuttered and cut out. The pilot requested and got permission to drop...