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[[File:Opel Kapitan Hebmüller.JPG|thumbnail|Opel Kapitan Hebmüller from 1940, just 2 examples survived]]
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The [[coachbuilder|coachbuilding]] company '''Hebmüller Sons''' (''{{lang|de|Karosseriewerke Joseph Hebmüller Söhne}}'') was founded in 1889 by Joseph Hebmüller, it was established in the town of [[Wuppertal]] in [[Germany]].<ref name=telia.com>{{cite web|title=The VW Hebmüller story|url=http://web.telia.com/~u31614134/English/hebstory.htm|work=Jan-Anders Lindqvist|publisher=web.telia.com|accessdate=16 December 2009}}</ref>
The [[coachbuilder|coachbuilding]] company '''Hebmüller Sons''' (''{{lang|de|Karosseriewerke Joseph Hebmüller Söhne}}'') was founded in 1889 by Joseph Hebmüller, it was established in the town of [[Wuppertal]] in [[Germany]].<ref name=telia.com>{{cite web|title=The VW Hebmüller story |url=http://web.telia.com/~u31614134/English/hebstory.htm |work=Jan-Anders Lindqvist |publisher=web.telia.com |accessdate=16 December 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090309144613/http://web.telia.com/~u31614134/English/hebstory.htm |archivedate=9 March 2009 |df= }}</ref>


At start it constructed horsedrawn [[carriage]]s but after the death of the founder Joseph in 1919, his sons started building bodies for [[automobile]]s.<ref name=telia.com/> After [[World War II]], the company received an order from the [[British Army]] to build 15 [[Humber Limited|Humber]] based cabriolets.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/rolandf1/hebmuller.htm|title=Hebmuller|accessdate=2008-02-28|work=geocities.com|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/rolandf1/hebmuller.htm&date=2009-10-26+01:47:23|archivedate=2009-10-26}}</ref>
At start it constructed horsedrawn [[carriage]]s but after the death of the founder Joseph in 1919, his sons started building bodies for [[automobile]]s.<ref name=telia.com/> After [[World War II]], the company received an order from the [[British Army]] to build 15 [[Humber Limited|Humber]] based cabriolets.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/rolandf1/hebmuller.htm|title=Hebmuller|accessdate=2008-02-28|work=geocities.com|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/rolandf1/hebmuller.htm&date=2009-10-26+01:47:23|archivedate=2009-10-26}}</ref>

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Hebmüller Sons
Company typePrivate company
IndustryAutomotive
Founded1889, Wuppertal, Germany
FounderJoseph Hebmüller
Defunct1952
FateBankruptcy in 1952
Number of locations
One
ProductsVolkswagen Type 14A, Opel Kapitan & Admiral, and many other manufacturers like Ford and Mercedes
Opel Kapitan Hebmüller from 1940, just 2 examples survived

The coachbuilding company Hebmüller Sons (Karosseriewerke Joseph Hebmüller Söhne) was founded in 1889 by Joseph Hebmüller, it was established in the town of Wuppertal in Germany.[1]

At start it constructed horsedrawn carriages but after the death of the founder Joseph in 1919, his sons started building bodies for automobiles.[1] After World War II, the company received an order from the British Army to build 15 Humber based cabriolets.[2]

The company's best known model is perhaps the two seater convertible based on Volkswagen Type 1 platform - known as Volkswagen Type 14A. It was widely reported that Volkswagen ordered 2,000 vehicles, and the production started in June 1949.[3] Hebmüller completed only 696 of these two seater cabriolets, however, before the Hebmüller business was wound up: the last batch of Hebmüller "Beetle" conversions was produced by Karmann of Osnabrück,[4] (who by this time were already producing a four-seater Type 1 cabriolet to their own design).

Hebmüller also built a number of four-door cabriolets on the Type 1 platform (Type 18A), with doors that were canvas.[5]

By the end of the 1940s, Hebmüller's economic situation was deteriorating. The company also suffered from a massive fire at its Wülfrath factory on 23 July 1949, which could not be extinguished because of water shortage.[4] Almost the entire factory was destroyed.[3] The company never recovered from the destruction, although the factory itself was rapidly rebuilt, and in 1949 alone more than 350 more cars were produced.[3] By 1952 the company had run out of cash and credit: Hebmüller met its end in bankruptcy in May 1952.[3]

Ford Motor Company subsequently purchased the former Hebmüller factory.[1]

  • The cover of Volume 13 of the Dragon Ball Z manga (Volume 29 of the original Japanese[6]) features Gohan and Piccolo driving a Volkswagen Type 14A.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c "The VW Hebmüller story". Jan-Anders Lindqvist. web.telia.com. Archived from the original on 9 March 2009. Retrieved 16 December 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ "Hebmuller". geocities.com. Archived from the original on 2009-10-26. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
  3. ^ a b c d "Hebmüller: Vom Beginn an war das Cabriolet Teil der Volkswagengeschichte.Selbst in den frühesten Testserien gab es schon Cabriolets. Hier einige Beispiele". Carsten's Classic Volkswagen pages, Plettenberg. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  4. ^ a b Reinhard Lintelmann (2010). VW Käfer und New Beetle. Komet Verlag GmbH, Cologne. p. 68. ISBN 978-3-89836-831-5.
  5. ^ Hot VWs, 7/84, p.38.
  6. ^ http://dragonballbook.fr/guidemanga/dbtankoubonedition/vol29.html
  7. ^ http://www.vizmanga.com/reader/371-dragon-ball-z-13
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