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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Tatra vehicles, Tatra 600, Tatra 603, Tatra 815, Tatra 77, OT-64 SKOT, Tatra 813, Prasident, Tatra V570, Tatra 148, Tatra 87, Tatra 12, Tatra 111, Tatra 810, Tatra 138, Tatra 163, NW First Truck, Hans Ledwinka, Tatra 97, Tatra 30, Tatra 54, NW Rennzweier, NW S, Tatra 816, Tatra 17, Tatra 20, Tatra 57, NW B, Tatra 10, Tatra 49, Tatra 26, Tatra 700, NW J, Tatra 613, Tatra 80, Erich Ubelacker, Austro-Tatra, Tatra 75, NW Elektromobil, NW D, NW C, Tatra 90, Tatra 82, Tatra 15. Excerpt: Tatra is a vehicle manufacturer in Kopřivnice, Czech Republic. The company was founded in 1850 as Schustala & Company later renamed Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriksgesellschaft, a wagon and carriage manufacturer, and in 1897 produced the first motor car in central Europe, the Prasident. In 1918, it changed its name to Kopřivnicka vozovka a.s. and, in 1919, started to use the Tatra badge named after the nearby Tatra mountains in Slovakia. Tatra is the third oldest car maker in the world after Daimler Mercedes-Benz and Peugeot. During World War II Tatra was instrumental in the production of trucks, and tank engines for the German war effort. Production of Tatra cars ceased in 1999 but the company still produces a range of primarily all-wheel-drive 44, 66, 88, 1010, and 1212 trucks. Tatra Prasident on the Kopřivnice coat of arms. Ignac Sustala, founder of the companyIgnac Sustala (1822-1891), founder of the company in Kopřivnice, Moravia, started the production of horse-drawn vehicles in 1850. In 1891 he branched out into railroad car manufacture, naming the company Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriksgesellschaft, and employed Hugo Fischer von Roeslerstamm as technical director in 1890. After the death of Sustala, von Roeslerstamm took over running the company and in 1897 he bought a Benz automobile. Using this for...
