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The country was Ireland, with Beetle builds starting in October 1950 and 46 or 48 built by the year end. The first one is apparently now on display at the VW museum in Wolfsburg - https://beetle.ie/vehicle/zl2286/ . The final assembled example was 1977 and was green and is preserved unregistered in Dublin museum; Mercedes was the other big German firm which stopped Irish assembly in 1977.
Info from this book review - https://www.completecar.ie/features/post/8198/Book-review-Motor-Assembly-in-Ireland - flick through the gallery photos as well. Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Volkswagen_in_Ireland .
The country was Ireland, with Beetle builds starting in October 1950 and 46 or 48 built by the year end. The first one is apparently now on display at the VW museum in Wolfsburg - https://beetle.ie/vehicle/zl2286/ . The final assembled example was 1977 and was green and is preserved unregistered in Dublin museum; Mercedes was the other big German firm which stopped Irish assembly in 1977.
Info from this book review - https://www.completecar.ie/features/post/8198/Book-review-Motor-Assembly-in-Ireland - flick through the gallery photos as well. Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Volkswagen_in_Ireland .