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Hans Glas GmbH company history

From a manufacturer of agricultural machinery to an automobil producer

factory back in 1910Back in 1860, Maurus Glas founded the first agricultural machinery factory in the district town of Freising, in Bavaria. He employed up to 300 workers and their machines sold very well. His son, Andreas after traveling around the world for a few years, founded a second agricultural machinery factory in the small market city of Pilsting, near Dingolfing.

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Film: Glas Automobilwerke in Dingolfing vom 20.08.1964

über die Produktion bei GLAS in der ARD Mediathek "hr Retro"      ->hier


 

Film: Ende des Goggos? vom 01.09.1966

über die Übernahme von GLAS durch BMW in der BR Mediathek      ->hier


 

Selfmademan Hans Glas - eine außergewöhnliche Persönlichkeit

 125 Jahre Hans Glas

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Goggomobil Fertigung

 

Es ist ein langer Weg von der ersten Idee bis zur serienmäßigen Produktion eines neuen Fahrzeugs.
Wir schildern in diesem und in den nachfolgenden Berichten die Herstellung des Goggomobils.

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