Pietsch arrived too late to participate in the excitement of that period -- work on the prototype for the ' 49 had just been completed .
This meant that much of the exterior work assigned to Pietsch was looking ahead to 1950 and beyond .
Pietsch arrived too late to participate in the excitement of that period -- work on the prototype for the ' 49 had just been completed , and this meant that much of the exterior work assigned to him was looking ahead to 1950 and beyond .