Werner Lang
Jul. 8th, 2013 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dormouse1953Last week, the man who invented the computer mouse, this week, the man who designed the Trabant:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/doctor-werner-lang-engineer-who-designed-the-trabant-car-8693630.html
Back in the nineties, when I first had satellite TV, you could receive a number of German TV channels for free and I find German TV fascinating. One night I noticed a film about an East German family who, when the wall comes down, decide to take a foreign holiday, driving their Trabant to Naples. Well, I couldn't understand the German, but I could get the gist of the story.
The curious thing is, the next day I was walking through Guildford, and a Trabant drove past. I don't think I've seen a Trabant in Guildford before or since.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/doctor-werner-lang-engineer-who-designed-the-trabant-car-8693630.html
Back in the nineties, when I first had satellite TV, you could receive a number of German TV channels for free and I find German TV fascinating. One night I noticed a film about an East German family who, when the wall comes down, decide to take a foreign holiday, driving their Trabant to Naples. Well, I couldn't understand the German, but I could get the gist of the story.
The curious thing is, the next day I was walking through Guildford, and a Trabant drove past. I don't think I've seen a Trabant in Guildford before or since.
