Description

  • Together the corporations Reutter and Porsche made automotive historical past. Creator Frank Jung, Albert Reutter’s nice-grandson, launched into designated analysis in this topic. Via private touch with former body of workers and recent witnesses he came upon distinctive photos and texts that had been used in large part for this book
  • On the foundation of historic footage and In the past unpublished files, the fashions and occasions are offered chronologically till 1964: starting within the Thirties with the cooperative paintings on Volkswagen predecessors and prototypes, the focal point is at the corporations’ cooperation and the advance in their manufacturing facility homes, in addition to at the manufacturing of the Porsche 356 bodywork considering the fact that 1949
  • Descriptions of the paintings on prototypes and unique automobiles whole this complete monograph

The lengthy and a success cooperation among Porsche and the Stuttgarter Karosseriewerk Reutter & Co. GmbH was once, proper from its starting, greater than only a marriage of comfort. It was once in line with mutual sympathy of 2 distinctive corporations inside the car business.

In 1931 the Reutter coachwork corporate, based in 1906, began building prototypes of what could later be referred to as Volkswagen on behalf of the Porsche engineering workplace. In 1949 Porsche gave the order to Reutter to supply 500 our bodies for the Porsche sports activities automotive, and round Easter time 1950 the primary Porsche 356 ever to be built in Germany was once completed in Reutter’s manufacturing facility I. Porsche purchased floor from Reutter inside the plot of its manufacturing facility II so as to construct a brand new building website online for manufacturing cars. On the comparable time Reutter moved the whole bodywork to manufacturing facility II in Zuffenhausen and from that second the various mythical Porsche 356 had been synthetic in extensive cooperation and aspect through aspect.

Besides the ones automobiles made through hand in serial-manufacturing Porsche 356 items many prototypes and unique automobiles made for Porsche as much as the purpose of collective evolution of the later known as Porsche kind 911.

The guide’s focal point is at the description of the advance of a Porsche 356-frame, colorfully illustrated and designated as by no means earlier than. A lot of the fabric used was once taken from the Reutter-circle of relatives archive. In the past unpublished files and images had been present in a few institutional and personal files, particularly the archive of Porsche itself.