Construction of the amphibian car was based on the Beetle. Its all-wheel design made it one of the best all-terrain vehicle of its day.
Grandfather Ferdinand Porsche, with his grandchildren: Ferdinand Alexander ("Butzi") Porsche (left) and Ferdinand Piëch. In their hands is a model of the No. 1.
Porscheplatz at the Zuffenhausen location
The panel of experts with the winning design from Karin Sander
The Porsche plant in Leipzig with Customer Service Centre, administration section, production hall and run-in and test track
The production hall is joined on to the right of the administration section
Bavaria's Minister for Economic Affairs, Dr. Otto Wiesheu (right) with the Chairman of the Managing Board at Porsche, Dr. Wendelin Wiedeking
The house in Maffersdorf (now Vratislavice) in which Ferdinand Porsche was born in 1875. It was on the right bank of the Neisse and bore the number 201
1915. Ferdinand Porsche's children, Ferry and Louise, aged 6 and 11
The "Sascha" at the Targa Florio on Sicily in 1922. At the wheel we see Alfred Neubauer.
Ferdinand Porsche (right) at the Targa Florio on Sicily in 1924. The 2-liter-supercharged Mercedes-Benz racing car took first place against larger-engined cars entered by Alfa Romeo, Hispano-Suiza and Peugeot.
Ferdinand Porsche (right) and his wife Aloisia (in the rear) during an experimental run up the Katschberg Pass, Carinthia, in 1929, in a Steyr Type 30 of his own design.
Ferdinand Porsche standing next to the supercharged 16-cylinder engine of the Auto-Union racing car in 1936
Ferdinand Porsche (left) with Karl Rabe (1895-1968), Porsche company's chief designer from the establishment of the Dr. Porsche GmbH company in 1931 until his retirement at the end of 1965.
Portrait of Ferdinand Porsche (1950) with his signature below
Ferry Porsche at a gymkhana in 1921, pictured in his "toy car" that had a two-cylinder four-stroke engine and twin gears.
Ferry Porsche on the "Bremen" during his journey to the USA in 1937, on which he accompanied his father.
Ferry Porsche (bottom right) with his father Ferdinand Porsche (with his hand on the drawing board) and engine constructor Leopold Jäntschke in Porsche's construction offices at Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen in 1950.
(Left to right) Crown Prince Joachim of Fürstenberg, Ferry Porsche, Constantin Count of Berckheim, Prince Fritzi of Fürstenberg and Count Günther of Hardenberg after the 1950 Midnight Sun Rally.
Ferry Porsche with his closest working colleagues in 1951: (front, l-to-r) Erwin Komenda, Ferry Porsche, Karl Rabe, Franz Xaver ReimspieÃ; (back, l-to-r) Franz Sieberer, Emil Soukup, Leopold Schmidt, Leopold Jäntschke and Egon Forst
