Trabant Photography

“Have a good trip with Trabant”. Main entrance of the Sachsenring Automobilwerke, Zwickau 1990.Welding of auto body parts, 1990Worker #1, 1991Worker #2, 1991Body sheet welding on the assembly line, 1991Worker #3, 1991Worker #4, 1991Polishing weld seams, 1990Worker #5, 1991Worker #6, 1991Car body construction with parts store, 1990“A new Mercedes every year”, 1991Assembly line #1, 1991Assembly line #2, 1991Welder, 1991Worker #7, 1991Janitor, 1991Finishing the wings, 1990Assembly line #3, 1991Worker #8, 1991Follow-up treatment of the painted surface #1, 1991Worker #9, covered with cotton debris, the raw material of duroplast auto bodies, 1991Canteen of the duroplast body sheet manufacturing, 1991Canteen, 1991Painters, 1991Follow-up treatment of the painted surface #1, 1990Follow-up treatment of the painted surface #2, 1990Worker #10, 1991Worker #11, 1991Unfinished Trabant being pushed along for further work, 1990Assembly line #4, 1990Janitors, 1991Canteen worker, 1991Bumper assembly, 1991Worker #12, 1991Cleaning the body at the end of the assembly line, 1990Workers push a complete Trabant out of final assembly, 1991Scrap Trabants on the factory site where, after production ended, parts recycling was located, 1992Scrap Trabants on the factory site where, after production ended, parts recycling was located, 1992Scrap Trabants on the factory site where, after production ended, parts recycling was located, 1992Freight train loaded with VW Golf IVs. After 1991 Volkswagen assembled cars at a former Trabant factory site, 1992Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin