Wesley P. Dahlberg (born 1918) designed the Ford Taunus P3 17M, the Badewanne.
Dahlberg was the son of Swedish immigrants, descending to the USA from the landscape of Medelpad in northern Sweden. He became a car designer working for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, and from there he was in the late 1950s sent to West Germany to lead the build-up of Fords new European design studio in Cologne. Along with the studio´s executive chief Uwe Bahnsen, he played a major part in the design of the famed Taunus 17m (project "Adria", series P3)produced the years 1960 through 1964. Dahlberg remained working with Ford´s operations in Europe for about a decade before returning to Detroit, where his first assignment was to master the design of the new Lincoln Continental series, set to launch in the late 1960s.
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“And am I born to die?
To lay this body down?
And must my trembling spirit fly
Into a world unknown?”
—Charles Wesley (1707–1788)
“So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)