The good old days

[Dmill]

911T1971 points out a very important fact that a lot of us overlook.....We think our beloved cars were built by Germans.....Not so much.....Germans were the folks in management and in some cases the boss on the floor of the factory...but the low pay, low skill factory jobs were folks who emigrated to Germany after the war....The Russians, Americans and British did a pretty good job killing a generation or two of Germans.

I believe this is why it is sometimes difficult to read the numbers written in yellow grease pencil quickly on places like the dash as the car moved through the line

[Jules Dielen]

911T1971 points out a very important fact that a lot of us overlook.....We think our beloved cars were built by Germans.....Not so much.....Germans were the folks in management and in some cases the boss on the floor of the factory...but the low pay, low skill factory jobs were folks who emigrated to Germany after the war....The Russians, Americans and British did a pretty good job killing a generation or two of Germans.

I believe this is why it is sometimes difficult to read the numbers written in yellow grease pencil quickly on places like the dash as the car moved through the line

are you implying immigrants can't write quickly?

[jb57tub]

Or that the Germans didn't do a good job of killing off a generation or two of Germans?

[Dmill]

Not trying to go down any political rabbit holes

Just noting the script may not have been in the hand of a German who are generally noted for their attention to detail

My Uncle landed at Omaha Beach (29th ID, 116 Regiment, E Company, Boat 4) at 6:25 am and as his best friend has told me on many occasions, they then took a walking tour of europe. If you want to blame the Germans for killing their own...that's fine...the point is...there weren't any young Germans around to man the factories that sprung up after the war

[uai]

Even if this a bit off topic. I think in the 60s there was an occasional Blue Collar Worker @Porsche from Turkey. Most immigrants/ Gastarbeiter in germany in the 50s and 60s were from Italy. And the handwriting you see on Kardexes and Dashes is pretty much what I call "old" and german. It's not Sütterlin which was forbidden 1941, it's the way you learnt writing in the 30s 40s and 50s. You can still today figure if somebody is german, french, english or US just by the way they write.
Perhaps a good question for Frank Jung how the percentage of Gastarbeiter at the production Line was in those years. My guesstimate for 1960-1970 <15%.
Cheers
Uli

[stout]

Just cracked open my new issue of 000. The best yet as far as my interest. A lot of back in the day topics. I loved the history of Porsche coming to America.
What really caught my eye was a factory worker installing a motor in the new 67S. He has sandles on his feet !! At the risk of Pete coming after me for posting the picture, I am going to do it. It really has to be shared, so classic. Pete has gone way beyond 1st class on this project.

Glad 008 met you well, and I won't come after you—but am now wondering if Frank wears socks with his sandals…

[RSTarga]

Quite a few Spaniards were in the mix too. I never had a problem finding someone who spoke Spanish on my visits.

[jb57tub]

Dmill, Sorry to get political, you point is correct and well taken

[RSTarga]

It's funny , but now that we are talking about the good old days. In the years after the Second World War many of the developed countries had no manpower. The Russia women stepped in to fill the void, Mexicans were actively recruited for factories and farms in the US, Jamaicans were brought into the UK, Algerians into France. Turks and Spaniards to Germany.
I guess they were the good old days!

[Frank Beck]

but am now wondering if Frank wears socks with his sandals…

Pete,
Socks would make me look like a hipster... 'cept I'm too old.

However I am looking forward to being one of those crazy old coots who wears compression stockings with sandals and fart whenever and wherever I want.


I quit subscribing to printed publications during the Clinton Admin but I guess it may be time to pony up if you're going to post pics like that. Bravo.