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Volkswagen BusHistory of the Volkswagen Bus. List of the Volkswagen Bus.The concept for the Type 2 is credited to Dutch Volkswagen importer Ben Pon. (It has similarities in concept to the 1920s Rumpler Tropfenwagen and 1930s Dymaxion car by Buckminster Fuller, neither of which reached production.) Pon visited Wolfsburg in 1946, intending to purchase Type 1s for import to Holland, where he saw an improvised parts-mover and realized something better was possible using the stock Type 1 pan. He first sketched the van in a doodle dated April 23, 1947, proposing a payload of 690 kg (1,500 lb) and placing the driver at the very front. Production would have to wait, however, as the factory was at capacity producing the Type 1.The first generation of the Volkswagen Type 2 with the split windshield, informally called the Microbus, Splitscreen, or Splittie among modern fans, was produced from 8 March 1950 through the end of the 1967 model year. From 1950 to 1956, the T1 was built in Wolfsburg; from 1956, it was built at the completely new Transporter factory in Hanover. Like the Beetle, the first Transporters used the 1100 Volkswagen air-cooled engine, an 1,131 cc (69.0 cu in), DIN-rated 18 kW (24 PS; 24 bhp), air-cooled flat-four-cylinder 'boxer' engine mounted in the rear. This was upgraded to the 1200 - an 1,192 cc (72.7 cu in) 22 kW (30 PS; 30 bhp) in 1953. A higher compression ratio became standard in 1955; while an unusual early version of the 30 kW (41 PS; 40 bhp) engine debuted exclusively on the Type 2 in 1959. This engine proved to be so uncharacteristically troublesome that Volkswagen recalled all 1959 Transporters and replaced the engines with an updated version of the 30 kW engine.One of five generations of Volkswagen vans: Volkswagen Type 2 (T1), generation T1 (Microbus, or Split-screen bus) Volkswagen Type 2 (T2), generation T2 ("Bay window" bus) Volkswagen Type 2 (T3), generation T3 (Vanagon) Volkswagen Transporter (T4), generation T4 (Eurovan) Volkswagen Transporter (T5), generation T5 (Eurovan) Volkswagen Bus Volkswagen Volkswagen Volksbus Volkswagen (timeline) Volkswagen Type 2 Volkswagen Type 3 Volkswagen Type 2 (T3) Volkswagen Transporter (T4) Volkswagen Transporter (T5) Volkswagen Westfalia Campers Volkswagen Microbus Concept Volkswagen California Volkswagen New Beetle Volkswagen Phaeton Volkswagen Jetta Motorhome Minibus Panel van Volkswagen Transporter The Henry Ford Chicken tax Hippie Draisine Lanz Bulldog Puebla Ben Pon, Sr. Rumpler Tropfenwagen Dymaxion car Citroen H Van Bedford CA Renault Estafette Samba (bus) Adventurewagen Volkswagen air-cooled engine Sao Bernardo do Campo Inline-four engine Flexible-fuel vehicle Water cooling Air-cooled engine Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles Light commercial vehicle Nissan Vanette Straight-five engine Catalytic converter Four-wheel drive Alloy wheel Internal combustion engine Disc brake Weight distribution Flat engine Pickup truck Aerodynamics Drag coefficient Wind tunnel Eurovans Volkswagen Routan Van Transverse engine Front-engine design Westfalia Garuda Mataram Motor Poznan Hanover Campervan Anti-lock braking system Turbocharged Direct Injection Manual transmission Fifth Gear The A-Team Dual-clutch transmission Direct-Shift Gearbox 4motion