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Sodomka
Sodomka was a Czech coachbuilding company founded in 1895. They bodied cars and buses from various Czech companies (Aero, Laurin & Klement, Praga, Škoda, Tatra, Walter), as well as foreign cars (e.g. Bugatti, Ford, Graham, Lancia, Nash, Rolls-Royce, LaSalle (for the British royal family), Studebaker and others). History The Sodomka company was founded in Vysoké Mýto in 1895 by Josef Sodomka Sr. It was originally called the First East Bohemian Carriage Manufacture of Josef Sodomka. After the First World War came the Great Depression and the search for another production programme began. Josef Sodomka persuaded his father to start car bodywork. In 1925, they produced the first car body according to their own design on a Praga Mignon chassis. In 1928, the company produced their first bus body on a Škoda 125 chassis with a capacity for fourteen passengers and other bus bodies on Praga, Škoda, Tatra and Walter chassis. By the end of the year, a total of six buses had been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karosa
Karosa (, ) was a bus manufacturer in Vysoké Mýto in the Czech Republic. It was the biggest manufacturer of buses in Czechoslovakia. In 2007, its name was changed to Iveco, Iveco Czech Republic, and now the company produces buses under the name Iveco Bus. Since 2014, the Czech Republic has produced more buses per million inhabitants than any other country in the world. The Iveco Bus factory in Vysoké Mýto produces around 3,100 buses annually and is the largest manufacturer of buses in Europe. Production of car bodies In 1896, Josef Sodomka founded a manufacturing plant for coaches - '' First East Bohemian manufacture of carriages Josef Sodomka'' in Vysoké Mýto. In 1925, the Sodomka company started producing automobile bodywork of its own design, designed to be mounted on automobile chassis produced by Praga as the Mignon. In the 1930s, Sodomka became a successful company, winning automotive competitions for elegance and opening showrooms. The company created bodies for mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coachbuilding
A coachbuilder manufactures bodies for passenger-carrying vehicles. The trade of producing coachwork began with bodies for horse-drawn vehicles. Today it includes custom automobiles, buses, motor coaches, and railway carriages. The word "coach" was derived from the Hungarian town of Kocs. A vehicle body constructed by a coachbuilder may be called a "coachbuilt body" (British English) or "custom body" (American English), and is not to be confused with a custom car. Prior to the popularization of unibody construction in the 1960s, many independent coachbuilders built bodies on rolling chassis provided by luxury or sports car manufacturers, both for individual customers and makers themselves. Marques such as Ferrari originally outsourced all bodywork to coachbuilders such as Pininfarina and Scaglietti. Today, the coach building trade has largely shifted to making bodies for short runs of specialized commercial vehicles such as motor coaches and luxury recreational veh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aero (automobile)
The Aero was a Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak Car, automobile company that produced a variety of models between 1929 and 1947 by a well-known aircraft and car-body company owned by Dr. Kabes in Prague-Vysocany. Now Aero Vodochody produces aircraft only. Type 10 The original Aero model, the ''Type 500'' or ''Type 10'' was a small car launched in 1928. Powered by a 494 cc single-cylinder (engine), cylinder two-stroke engine with water cooling, producing , it could reach a top speed of . Drive was through a 3-speed gearbox to a rear axle without differential (mechanical device), differential. The Type 10 was sold with a choice of body styles; roadster, cabriolet and coupé, all with two seats in the front and one in the rear. Production ran for four years, ending in 1932 with 1,358 built. Type 18 Announced in 1931, the Type 18 (also known as the 662) was powered by a larger 660 cc two-cylinder engine developing , with a top speed of . With improved four-wheel brakes, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LaSalle (automobile)
LaSalle was an American brand of luxury vehicle, luxury automobiles manufactured and marketed, as a separate brand, by General Motors' Cadillac division from 1927 through 1940. Alfred P. Sloan, GM's Chairman of the Board, developed the concept for four new GM marquesLaSalle, Marquette, Viking and Pontiacpaired with already established brands to fill price gaps he perceived in the General Motors product portfolio. Sloan created LaSalle as a companion marque for Cadillac. LaSalle automobiles were manufactured by Cadillac, but were priced lower than Cadillac-branded automobiles, were shorter, and were marketed as the second-most prestigious marque in the General Motors portfolio. LaSalles were Deed, titled as LaSalles, and not as Cadillacs. Like Cadillacnamed after Antoine de la Mothe Cadillacthe LaSalle brand name was based on that of another French explorer, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. General Motors companion marque strategy The LaSalle had its beginnings when Gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iveco Bus
Iveco Bus, formerly Irisbus, is a bus manufacturer with headquarters in Turin. Iveco Bus is now only a brand division of Iveco which is a company incorporated under Dutch law and listed on Borsa Italiana. History Iveco (1975–1999) In 1975 Fiat Bus created the brand Iveco (Industrial Vehicle Corporation) which gradually took over operations of Officine Meccaniche (OM) and Orlandi in Italy, Berliet, Renault, Société des usines Chausson, Chausson, and Saviem in France, Karosa in the Czech Republic, Magirus-Deutz in Germany, and Pegaso in Spain. With the integration of Renault Bus in 1999, Iveco Bus became Irisbus. Irisbus (1999–2013) The French-Italian company was created in January 1999 by way of merger between the coach and bus divisions of Renault Véhicules Industriels and the coach and bus divisions of Fiat Industrial and Iveco, with Ikarus Bus added in late 1999. The Ikarus Bus division was sold off in 2006 to Hungary's Műszertechnika Group, acquiring the property of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial production and international trade, and widespread bank and business failures around the world. The economic contagion began in 1929 in the United States, the largest economy in the world, with the devastating Wall Street stock market crash of October 1929 often considered the beginning of the Depression. Among the countries with the most unemployed were the U.S., the United Kingdom, and Weimar Republic, Germany. The Depression was preceded by a period of industrial growth and social development known as the "Roaring Twenties". Much of the profit generated by the boom was invested in speculation, such as on the stock market, contributing to growing Wealth inequality in the United States, wealth inequality. Banks were subject to laissez-faire, minimal regulation, resulting in loose lending and wides ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First World War
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting took place mainly in European theatre of World War I, Europe and the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, Middle East, as well as in parts of African theatre of World War I, Africa and the Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I, Asia-Pacific, and in Europe was characterised by trench warfare; the widespread use of Artillery of World War I, artillery, machine guns, and Chemical weapons in World War I, chemical weapons (gas); and the introductions of Tanks in World War I, tanks and Aviation in World War I, aircraft. World War I was one of the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflicts in history, resulting in an estimated World War I casualties, 10 million military dead and more than 20 million wounded, plus some 10 million civilian de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vysoké Mýto
Vysoké Mýto (; , also ''Hohenmauth'') is a town in Ústí nad Orlicí District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 13,000 inhabitants. Its town square is the largest example of its type in the country. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument zones, urban monument zone. Administrative division Vysoké Mýto consists of ten municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Vysoké Mýto-Město (807) *Choceňské Předměstí (1,677) *Litomyšlské Předměstí (6,275) *Pražské Předměstí (2,706) *Brteč (98) *Domoradice (166) *Knířov (46) *Lhůta (102) *Svařeň (85) *Vanice (107) Etymology The predecessor of the town was a small settlement by a trade route called ''Mýto'' (literally 'Toll (fee), toll' in Czech). After a new town was founded, it adopted the privilege of collecting the toll. The old settlement was renamed to ''Staré Mýto'' ('old toll') and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
