Topic: Solved - NEH 266: Zündapp Volksauto 1931

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Usual point for identifying this (not a repost under the name I have/want!):

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Onwards and Upwards!
Shouldn't take the Experts more than a few mintues!

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That looks to me like the 1931 type 12 prototype by Ferdinand Porsche (a VW precursor).

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That looks to me like the 1931 type 12 prototype by Ferdinand Porsche (a VW precursor).

It does indeed look like it, because that's what it is.
But what was it known as at the time?  Who was he employed by to produce it?
These days that's what it always seems to be known as because everyone knows Mr Porsche, but in 1931 no-one did.
Only a couple of years later was the design adapted to become what became known as the People's Car.

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Is the other name you're looking for "Auto für Jedermann" (car for everybody)?

And is it the German motorcycle company, Zündapp, that employed him?

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Is the other name you're looking for "Auto für Jedermann" (car for everybody)?

And is it the German motorcycle company, Zündapp, that employed him?

Yes, you've got it really so I'll say it's solved.
It was originally the Zundapp Volksauto that this is a picture of.
Well done.

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Thanks for your generosity. You would have been justified in holding out until I (or someone) came up with the name "Volksauto" (which seems to be conspicuously absent from any web page that includes "Type 12" along with "Porsche" and "Zundapp").