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Friedrich Rometsch office were on the Westen side of Berlin when the workshop was in the Soviet side
A lot of US servicemen discovered the Rometsch cars through the Rometsch showroom and bought them and took them back to the States
Heinz Nordhoff VW Chairman became worried by the success of sport cars based on VW components and decided to stop to supply VW chassis and VW engines to any coachwork
To overcome this new difficulty Frierich Rometsch had to ask his own employees to buy bright new beetle in order to recover the chassis and engine but of course this was reflected in the price and sales started to reduce
At the same time, at Nordhoff request, Johanness Beeskow was approached by Karmann to help them to start the VW Ghia
The Rometsch Beeskow banana were stopped in 1956
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Originally posted by Porschinelle" post=26284
~VanceAttached Files
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Hi Vance
Without doing a too long off topic here are some infos on the Borgward/Goliath/Hansa/Lloyd story
Carl Ludwig Borgward(1890/1963) was a German engineer who opened Borgward Werk in 1933 in Bremen
From 1933 Borgward manufactured mainly industrial (tri-cycles)vehicules
After the second WW Bremen was on the EastGermany side controlled by Communists
Carl Borgward run 4 car building operations :
Lloyd :Industrial and low cost 2 cycles small vehicules
Goliath : Industrial and popular front drive vehicules with 700-900 and 1100 cc 2 cycles/2 cylinders fuel injection
Hansa who was either an independant company but also added to Goliath or Borgward names to designate a specific model
Borgward-Hansa
Goliath-Hansa
Borgward was the Luxury range name
Borgward most famous car is the Borgward Isabella
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This car has nothing to see with a Porsche 356, except that in 1950 Porsche was a must several times copyied, and also that the body was, as for the 356 Gmund, in aluminium
The Goliath GP700/GP900 sport car was in fact produce in a very small quantity and is extremely rare nowadays
As the Sedan cars, Goliath GP700/900 have front wheel drive and a 2 stroke/2 cylinders engine
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Carl Friedrich Rommetsch decease in 1959 but the Rommetsch Lawrence continued to be built up to 1957
Rommetsch Karrosserie was alive until 2000, but the Rommetsch Lawrence was the last car built on a VW chassis by this company
They continued to manufacture one shot luxury cars and buses but also funny applications as this VW based tourist train
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