| Product Description : Barkas East German DDR Classic Van Minibus Comapany B1000 B1100 Logo Pin Badge - The pin is made from gold coloured metal with baked, enameled inserts and I would estimate, according to the manufacturing style to be from the 1960s. Featuring the grill logo of the Barkas van. It has a stick pin fastener and is 2.5cm wide.
Barkas was the East German manufacturer of small delivery vans and minibuses named the B1000. Production started in 1961 and continued until 1991.
The B1000 was a remarkable van at the time; the unusually high loading capacity, two-stroke engine, front wheel drive, and semi trailing arms suspension differed from the more traditionally constructed vans in the West. Being the only commercially available van in the GDR the factory offered many body styles; a flatbed, a panel van, a people carrier, a box van and an ambulance were all available. Altogether 175,740 B1000s and 1,961 B1000/1s were built.
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