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Wolfsburg has many parallel final assembly lines - I guess it wouldn't be too much trouble to have several painting lines too, but they don't allow visits to the paint-shop so I've never seen them. As you've pointed out in the past, production line photos in brochures are unreliable as they may be organised photo-shoots, but I've a brochure photo here (for the '72 411LE) with 6 parallel lines each with about a dozen Type 3s and three Type 4s at the front of another line of mixed Type 3s/4s (not all visible due to building pillars etc) but there appears to be a mix of colours in each line (I've scanned it - will get it posted some time in the next few hours). Another brochure shows half a dozen Marina blue Type 3s. Allowing 10 minutes a car for the colour coat(s) you would need 6 lines to get a through-put of 1000 Type 3s in a 24 hour day, and another 24 lines for the Beetles! I would guess there were several booths set up for the popular colours and maybe just 1 or 2 for the less common ones. I don't know if they mixed Beetles and Type 3s in the paint booths, but it's possible as Type 3 colours were a sub-set of the full Wolfsburg range (Buses and Ghias had some special colours plus some of the standard ones). What price a time machine? ;-) Dave. UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/ ------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org> To: "Type 3 Mailing List" <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 3:09 AM Subject: Re: [T3] T3PBO ... take 2 > On 11 Jan 2003 at 21:34, Dave Hall wrote: > > > I think the rate of production would make it tricky to batch produce - I would > > have thought it was more or less continuous. > > The more I think about this the more I think you're absolutely right. Paint > color changeovers are a big deal, but the way to deal with this would be to > just make all "red" cars this week and switch colors next week (or whenever.) > > -- > ******************************* > Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org > Madison, Wisconsin, USA > ******************************* > > > ------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> > For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ > > ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/