Description
Kelham Hall | Newark, Nottinghamshire
Viewing: Tues 9th September from 12pm
Auction: Wed 10st September from 9am
Location: Main Street, Newark, Nottinghamshire NG23 5QX
1958 Volkswagen Type 2 T1 'Peter Pitt Moto-Caravan'
Estimate
£25, 000 - £30, 000
Registration No: USK 762
Chassis No: 386699
MOT: Exempt
A desirable UK Market 'Semaphore' Type 2, bought new by vendors father
Finished in it's original colour scheme of 'Seagull Grey' over 'Mango Green'
Benefitting from a substantial restoration with photo's of work on file
Retains much of it's original 'Peter Pitt' fittings including the orignal gas lamp
Visiting Wolfsburg in 1946 to explore the possibility of becoming Volkswagen’s first international concessionaire, Dutch businessman Ben Pon was intrigued by a pared back, Type 1-derived parts-mover ‘plattewagen’ which he saw traversing the factory. Positing that the improvised hack could form the basis of another model line, Pon doodled a van with the driver and engine positioned above the front and rear axles respectively on April 23rd 1947. Although his concept struck a chord with VW’s management, demand for the Type 1 (Beetle) was such that productionising the Type 2 (Bus) was not a priority. A prototype was eventually built and its successors refined via the wind tunnel at the Technical University of Braunschweig with the result that their drag coefficients tumbled from 0. 75 to 0. 44 (the Beetle / Type 1 was 0. 48 by comparison). Greenlit on May 19th 1949, the very first Type 2 rolled off the production line just under six months later. The initial Kombi and Commercial variants were subsequently joined by Microbus, Pick-Up and Ambulance derivatives. Nicknamed the ‘Split Screen’ or ‘Splittie’ on account of its distinctive, two-part, V-windscreen, the first iteration of the T1 lasted until 1967 in Germany.
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