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Correction Mal, its Australia Street not road.
Wow 1 year German in high school and that still sticks in my brain. It's funny how many worthless tit bits of information a brain can hold.

Gusha, you were in Hamburg for the christening of TUI's Mein Schiff 1?

http://www.seatrade-cruise.com/news/news-headlines/tui-cruises-names-its-new-no-1-ship-in-a-hamburg-extravaganza.html

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Struggled with French in High School so had to turn to what was apparrently a not so good on line translator for the translation.

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Mal, yes, its history is rich and the pictures are impressive. I don't know where to start. The museum stores so many exhibits, the smell of moldy aquatic plants and old wood is in the salty air and the hoarse groan of foghorns gave me the final straw. A fully functional, steam driven floating crane from the imperial era anchors at the pier, a general cargo vessel of the 1950s, pitch-caulked barges, a suction dredge from 1913, a steam loco, ...

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Mal & BDC, the Australiastra?e was part of the former Indiaharbor with speaking names like Australia Pier and Africa Pier. It connected both, the power of wind and the power of steam. Old windjammers from all over the world lightened their loads and the cranes moved the goods to the port railway. I'm convinced that the hodgepodge of longshoremen, winchmen, stevedores, bale packers and tallymen knew several names for this quarter.



image source of the postcard: stadtteilgeschichten.net

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Dave (O_D), as always you're well informed when the wind turns the talk into sailor's yarn. I visited Hamburg after a long office week to get the paper dust out of my lung.

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Now to the announced vehicles. Over the years the below shown product, manufactured in Wolfsburg, Hanover, Emden, Ingolstadt and Osnabr?ck became a kind of standard good in Hamburg. Therefore a special cargo gear was developed. But all efforts had been like a drop in the bucket. Soon the Volkswagen was assembled in Melbourne (Australia), Brussels (Belgium), S?o Bernardo do Campo (Brazil), Heinola (Finland), Jakarta (Indonesia), Dublin (Ireland), Shah Alam (Malaysia), Puebla (Mexico), Auckland (New Zealand), Lagos (Nigeria), Manila (Philippines), Uitenhage (South Africa), Valencia (Venezuela) and Sarajevo (Yugoslavia).

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G'day all, The only car that I have ever purchased new was a RHD Honey Brown VW 1500 in 1970, for $A2150 cash. I ordered the racing stripe extra and the roof rack ( which I soon took off as it was a 5 mpg drag). It was a hoot and went as well as my 1949 Testosterone fuelled right foot could drive it..... but at 80,000 km I had stretched the head bolts and it overheated as I drove it like I stole it. Swapped it as a three year old car in 1973 for a 1934 PE Plymouth Deluxe. What a car. I pulled a trailer with a 533 Packard approx 1200 miles without much grief. The only real problem was that I entered a town which had a severe table drain ( water across road drainage rather than under). snapped the bolts holding towbar to the Frame. Didn't know about it until a few clicks from home when I leaned on the trailer and it waved around the towbar area. Thanks for the memories Guscha.... Peter Toet

Peter (Peter Packard), how good that you mentioned the indispensable racing stripes and the build year (1970). Ten years later Volkswagen reused the name "VW 1500" to rebrand a Chrysler product:



-> Wikipedia: "...In the beginning of 1980 Volkswagen acquired Chrysler International's remaining shares in their Argentinian subsidiary when the latter withdrew from South America (Volkswagen held 49% since earlier). The deal included the tooling to the Dodge 1500. The Chrysler range was discontinued, but the Dodge 1500 continued with a new "Serie W" suffix. In 1982 the car was renamed the Volkswagen 1500 (not to be confused with the totally different Volkswagen Type 3, which was sold elsewhere in the world as a Volkswagen 1500 too)..."

The pics below show the roof rack and a special feature of the real VW 1500: the windshield washer system, driven by compressed air to be inflated at the fuel station.

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At least they didn't use the air of the spare tire...