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Tatra is a vehicle manufacturer in Kopřivnice, Czech Republic. The company was founded in 1850 as Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriksgesellschaft, a wagon and carriage manufacturer, and produced the first motor car in central Europe in 1897, the Präsident. In 1919 it changed its name to Tatra after the Tatra mountains. Tatra is the "third oldest car maker in the world after Daimler Mercedes-Benz and Peugeot". Production of Tatra cars ceased in 1999 but the company still produces a successful range of primarily all-wheel-drive 4x4, 6x6, 8x8 10x10 and 12x12 trucks. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Location of Kopřivnice in the Czech Republic Kopřivnice is a town in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. ...
Hans Ledwinka (born in Klosterneuburg (Lower Austria),1878, died in Munich (Germany),1967) was an Austrian automobile designer. ...
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Location of Kopřivnice in the Czech Republic Kopřivnice is a town in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. ...
Tatras Panorama of Tatras The Tatra mountains, Tatras or Tatra (Tatry in both Slovak) and Polish, constitute a mountain range which forms a natural border between Slovakia and Poland. ...
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Early years
Ignác Šustala, founder of the company Ignác Šustala (1822 - 1891), founder of the company in Kopřivnice (German: Nesselsdorf), Moravia, started the production of horse-drawn vehicles in 1850. In 1891 he branched out into railway wagon manufacture naming the company Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriksgesellschaft and employed Hugo Fischer von Roslerstam as technical director in 1890. After the death of Šustala, von Roslerstam took over running the company and in 1897 he bought a Benz automobile. Using the Benz for inspiration the company made its first car, the Präsident which was exhibited in 1897 in Vienna. Orders were obtained for more cars and under the direction of a new young engineer called Hans Ledwinka (1878-1967) ten improved cars were made. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1728x2304, 1019 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Tatra (car) Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to...
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Hans Ledwinka (born in Klosterneuburg (Lower Austria),1878, died in Munich (Germany),1967) was an Austrian automobile designer. ...
The first car to be totally designed by Ledwinka came in 1900 with the Type A with rear mounted 2714 cc engine and top speed of 40 km/h of which 22 were made. This was followed by the Type B with central engine in 1902 but then Ledwinka left the company to concentrate on steam engine development. He returned in 1905 and designed a completely new car, the Type S with 3308 cc 4 cylinder engine. Production was badly hit in 1912 with a 23 week strike and Hugo Fischer von Roslerstam left the company. Image File history File links Prasident. ...
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Tatra concept
Tatra Präsident on the Kopřivnice coat of arms. After the World War I Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau was renamed Kopřivnice vozovka and in 1919 the name Tatra was given to the car range. Leopold Pasching took over control and Hans Ledwinka once more returned in 1921 to develop the revolutionary Tatra 11. Image File history File links T-11. ...
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The new car, launched in 1923 featured a rigid backbone tube with swinging semi-axles at the rear giving independent suspension. The engine, front mounted, was an air cooled two cylinder unit of 1056 cc. It was replaced in 1926 by the similar T 12 which had four wheel brakes. A further development was the 1926 T 17 with a 1,930 cc water cooled six cylinder engine and fully independent suspension.
In 1927 the company was formally renamed as Tatra a.s..
Prewar streamliners Tatra's specialty was luxury cars of a technically advanced nature. In the 1930s, under Austrian engineer Hans Ledwinka and his son Erich, Tatra started building advanced, streamlined cars starting with the large Tatra T77 in 1934, the world's first production aerodynamic car. The fastback T77's drag coefficient of 0.212 is rarely bettered even by the sleekest modern cars. It featured, as did almost all subsequent big Tatras, a rear-mounted, air-cooled V8 engine, very technically sophisticated for the time. Hans Ledwinka (born in Klosterneuburg (Lower Austria),1878, died in Munich (Germany),1967) was an Austrian automobile designer. ...
In the early 1930s Tatra has started experimenting with aerodynamics for use on a production car. ...
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Ledwinka discussed his ideas with Ferdinand Porsche who used many Tatra design features in the 1938 Kdf-Wagen, later known as the VW Beetle. This is particularly evident when compared with the smaller T97 model which had a rear-mounted, air-cooled, flat-4 engine and rounded body styling. Tatra immediately started legal action, but the matter was not resolved until 1961 when Volkswagen was ordered to pay 3,000,000 Deutsche Mark in damages. This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...
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War years After the 1938 invasion of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany, Tatras continued in production, largely because Germans liked the cars. Liked them too well, in fact; many German officers met their deaths when pushing heavy, rear-engined Tatras faster around corners than they could handle. In fact, the Tatra became known as the Czech Secret Weapon for the scores of officers who died behind the wheel; at one point, it seems, official orders had to be issued forbidding German officers from driving Tatras. National Socialism redirects here. ...
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Postwar Communist control The factory was nationalised in 1946 after the Communist Party was elected to power. Although production of prewar models continued, a new model, the Tatra T600 Tatraplan was designed -- the name celebrating the new Communist planned economy. It went into production in 1947. In 1951, the state planning department decided that the Tatraplan should henceforth be built at the Skoda plant in Mladá Boleslav, leaving Tatra free to concentrate on trucks, buses and railway equipment. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 568 pixelsFull resolution (1528 × 1084 pixel, file size: 1. ...
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The Tatraplan was the model T600 Tatra car. ...
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The Tatra T603 A mere three years later, amid much dissatisfaction among officialdom about the poor-quality official cars imported from Russia, Tatra was again given permission to produce a luxury car, the famous Tatra T603. A fair successor to the prewar cars, it was also driven by a rear-engined, air-cooled V8 and had the company's trademark aerodynamic styling. Uniquely, the Tatra T603 featured three headlights, and the first prototypes had a central rear stabilising fin, though this was lost for production. Fitted with almost American-style thick chrome bumpers with bullets (a.k.a. Dagmar bumpers), the Tatra T603 was an amazing looking car for 1955. Looks weren't all it had going for it; performance was spritely for a large, six-seater car, and the ride was smooth as glass. Almost entirely hand-built, Tatras were not for everybody; normal citizens could not buy them. They were reserved for Party elites, Communist officials, factory presidents and other notables, as well as being exported to most other Communist nations as official cars. Even Fidel Castro had a white Tatra T603, custom-fitted with air conditioning. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1497x1014, 960 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Tatra (car) User:Asterion/Image Gallery Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera...
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Tatra T603s were built until 1975, a twenty-year reign as Communism's finest car. Numerous improvements were made over this time, but not all the new cars built in this period were actually new. When a new Tatra replaced an old, the old vehicle was returned to the factory. There, it was upgraded to modern condition, refinished, dubbed new and sent out again as a putatively new vehicle to replace another older Tatra. This makes it hard to trace the history of surviving vehicles.
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1970s makeover—the Tatra T613
Tatra T613-4 Mi Long Model 1995
Tatra T613 V8 petrol air cooled engine In 1968 a replacement was developed; the Tatra T613. It was styled by the Italian styling house of Vignale and was a more modern, less rounded shape. It was not until 1973 that any were actually produced by the factory, and volume production did not begin until the following year. Although the layout remained the same, the body and engine were all new, the unit being equipped with 4 overhead camshafts, a greater volume (3495 cc) and delivering close to 165 bhp. In addition, it had been moved somewhat forward for improved balance. These cars were built in 5 series and several modifications until 1996. It is a tribute to Vignale's excellent styling that they did not look outdated until rather late in that time period. Over 11,000 cars were built, slowing to a trickle of but a few dozen a year towards the end as Tatras began to seem more and more outdated. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1231x863, 218 KB) Summary Tatra 613-4 at the Wartburg/Trabant/IFA Club UK Rally 2006 in Stanford Hall. ...
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The Tatra T613 was an automobile manufactured by Tatra in the 1960s as a replacement to the Tatra T603 series and featured an all new body styled by Vignale of Italy and used a dohc air-cooled V8 of 3. ...
Tatra 613 coupe Vignale - 1969 The Vignale designed Tatra 613-4 Mi Long Model 1995. ...
Recent years With orders and production almost at a standstill after the fall of Communism, Tatra decided to stop building the Tatra T613 in 1996. An attempt was made to produce an updated version, the Tatra T700; it was largely based on the old car, with updated body panels and detail. Sales were poor, and in 1999 Tatra abandoned the manufacture of cars. Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization based on common ownership of the means of production. ...
The Tatra T613 was an automobile manufactured by Tatra in the 1960s as a replacement to the Tatra T603 series and featured an all new body styled by Vignale of Italy and used a dohc air-cooled V8 of 3. ...
The Tatra T700 was an automobile released in 1996 by the Czech car maker Tatra, it was essentially a heavily restyled version of the Tatra T613 model it replaced. ...
During the history of production of cars Tatra produced 90,000 vehicles.
No such fate has met Tatra's truck production, which is quite successful.
The United States Terex Corporation acquired the majority ownership (71%) of Tatra in late 2003. However, as of early 2006, the majority ownership(80.51%) lies in the hands of Blue River's owner, Ronald Adams of Fort Worth, Texas. On 15 December 2006, a contract was signed between Tatra and the Czech Republic for 556 trucks at roughly $130,000,000 U.S., or 2,600,000,000 Czech Crowns. This contract was signed in lieu of replacement of older military vehicles. The Terex Titan was a massive Canadian earth-hauling lorry prototype built by the Terex Corporation of General Motors. ...
In April 2007 Tatra announced that it had already matched its production in 2006 and produced 1,600 vehicles. In 2007 Tatra plans to produce between 2,300 and 2,500 vehicles. In contrast to previous years, Tatra has increased employment by the hundreds within the past two quarters. Additionally, it has reversed previous errors and is growing again. Although there have been many struggles in the past decade, the company still remains one of the great prides of Czech industry and has proven to be a valuable asset to international engineering, with its unique assembly and production methods and designs.
Models
Passenger cars In the early 1930s Tatra has started experimenting with aerodynamics for use on a production car. ...
Tatra T80 was an automobile from Tatra designed by Hans Ledwinka in 1931. ...
Tatra T87 The Tatra T87 was a car built by Czechoslovakian manufacturer Tatra. ...
A prototype rear-engined small car, the Type 97 powered by 1. ...
The Tatraplan was the model T600 Tatra car. ...
The Tatra T613 was an automobile manufactured by Tatra in the 1960s as a replacement to the Tatra T603 series and featured an all new body styled by Vignale of Italy and used a dohc air-cooled V8 of 3. ...
The Tatra T700 was an automobile released in 1996 by the Czech car maker Tatra, it was essentially a heavily restyled version of the Tatra T613 model it replaced. ...
Trucks - Tatra T13
- Tatra T26
- Tatra T27
- Tatra T43
- Tatra T81
- Tatra T111
- Tatra T128
- Tatra T141
- Tatra T805
- Tatra T138
- Tatra T148
- Tatra T813
- Tatra T815
- Tatrapan Armored vehicle based on the Tatra 815 chassis.
- Tatra T163 Jamal
- Tatra T816
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Tatra T813 Tatra T813 was a truck produced in Czechoslovakia by the Tatra company. ...
Tatra T815 is a truck produced by Tatra. ...
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Literature - Margolius, Ivan and Henry, John G. (1990). Tatra - The Legacy of Hans Ledwinka. Harrow: SAF. ISBN 0946719063.
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