Wesley P. Dahlberg
Wesley P. Dahlberg (born 24 September 1917)[1] designed the Ford Taunus P3 17M, the Badewanne.
Dahlberg was the son of Swedish immigrants, coming to the United States from Medelpad in northern Sweden. He became a car designer for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit. In the late 1950s, Ford sent him 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, Dahlberg 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. His first assignment back in Detroit was to design the new Lincoln Continental series, set to launch in the late 1960s.
References
- Brief biography of Wesley P. Dahlberg (in German)