Re: [T3] tachy clock

[Scott Taylor <scottbtaylor@earthlink.net>]

<x-flowed>On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 06:52  PM, Jim Adney wrote:

> I had worked
> under the assumption that Ghia did the styling, VW did the design, and 
> Karmann
> did the assembly, just because VW wasn't set up for the lower 
> production
> levels. Now I have to wonder what the real arrangement was and how it 
> was that
> VW let decisions like this get out of their control.
> Mismanagement indeed!

It's probably more accurate to say that the Karmann Ghias were examples 
of high volume coachbuilding rather than low volume manufacturing. They 
were marketed as semi-handbuilt cars. The styling was Ghia's and they 
built the prototype, but Karmann was responsible for the final 
production design and engineering. Johannes Beeskow (designer of the 
Rometsch coachbuilt VW of the 50s) was the chief Karmann production 
engineer for the Type 34, which is an indication that their 
manufacturing decisions had more to do with European coachbuilding 
traditions than VW's high-volume production methods.

Scott
62 343, 65 361


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