THE BEGINNING OF A STORY – PORSCHE DIESEL

 In 1937, the professor Ferdinand Porsche got a contract from Adolf Hitler to build a people’s tractor (Volksschlepper), an identical contract to that of Volkswagen, (the people’s car). From that day the engineers at Porsche set about this new project in their offices. From their studies, in 1938 a prototype resembling a tractor is born, powered by an aircooled bicylinder …