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On 26th February 1936, a new design of car was launched in Germany. Hitler himself opened a factory in Saxony that was to manufacture a mass-produced cheap family car. It was to be a rival to the Model T Ford. The new car was called the ‘people’s car’ which in German is ‘Volkswagen’. It’s a familiar name all over the world now. It was a streamlined design, with a revolutionary new fourcylinder air cooled engine. And the engine was at the back. Hitler hoped that the new car would transform the German economy.
Sunday 26th February 2012
THE WAY WE WERE
I’m always amused when I read in magazines today that handbags have names! ‘The Birkin Bag’ and ‘Chloe’ to name but two. We had ‘shoulder bags’, ‘ordinary bags’ and ‘clutch bags’. I always thought that was a strange name for a bag. I suppose it meant you had to hold on to the bag itself instead of dangling it over your arm or shoulder. I remember trying to manage big bags of shopping whilst climbing onto the bus with my clutch bag clamped under my arm. It wasn’t easy. They were quite dainty as evening bags, when you had nothing else to carry.
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