A 1947 Volkswagen Beetle mb-code 2490458 Entrance to the Winchester Almshouses

Entrance to the Winchester Almshouses on Richmond Hill

8th November 1967

she has chosen some very strange friends to go around with

Royal Military Asylum

A 1947 Volkswagen Beetle mb-code 2490458 Entrance to the Winchester AlmshousesA 1947 Volkswagen Beetle. 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 beetle'. Post war civilian production was under British military control until 1949, when it reverted to German charge. During the late 1960s the Beetle became a world car.