0211 VW T1, T2, and T3

  • Founding of the International Red Cross (1864)

    The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16 million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide. It was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, there were no organised or well-established army nursing systems…

  • First Production of the Volkswagen Transporter (1950)

    The Volkswagen Transporter, initially the Type 2, is a range of light commercial vehicles, built both as vans, pickups, and cab and chassis variants, introduced in 1950 by the German automaker Volkswagen as their second mass production light motor vehicle series, and inspired by an idea and request from then Netherlands VW importer Ben…