There is injustice, whether real or imagined, to be forgotten even after decades. Anyone who writes a longer period of Czech automotive industry, because sooner or later hit the battered relations between people from Mladá Boleslav Skoda and Tatra.

Originally, the two companies competed normal way, but in the early thirties almost together. The reason was to face the deep economic crisis and the influx of American cars. The third party should be in Praga. All three brands would be retained, but should be rationalized production, reducing the total amount of produced types, use of common parts and to coordinate trade policy.

The fragmentation of the Czech automotive industry at that time significantly lagged behind the European leader and the agreement of the three leading manufacturers to significantly increase its competitiveness. Tatra chief engineer Hans Ledwinka however, insisted on its original concept, the air-cooled engine and a central tube, while Praga and Skoda argued that this solution has no future and wanted to keep the design classic. Prague and Mladá Boleslav automaker extra hard, demanded that produces no less Tatra passenger cars, so people from Koprivnica would not agree. The intention, therefore, failed. She only mutual bitterness.

Finally, just as everyone gathered under a single management. But after nationalization, at the time of rigid central planning. The result was the production of Tatra 600 Tatraplán called in Mlada Boleslav. Tatrováci still say the poor work in Skoda ruined this great car originally his reputation, while employees in Mlada Boleslav, on the contrary had a feeling that the former potentates abused their factory to mount something completely extraneous.

In the second half of the fifties, the situation calmed down temporarily, but the 70 years brought another round of mutual hostility. When the battle of investment. Mladoboleslavští get the feeling that the money flowing into Tatry, because a senior management Československých motor racing dominated by people from Koprivnica. From then comes the controversy over the engines in Kopřivnice to have built a huge engine plant, which again produced air-cooled.

The introduction of modern production engines in Mlada Boleslav left, so even cars Škoda Favorit Forman and had to settle for a four-cylinder design originating from the model Skoda 1000 MB from the early 60th years. People around then Tatry but still say the talk of the backwardness of their conception were just rumors. ”Tatrováci engines not only able to be overloaded, but achieved with a mechanical injection pump emission purity Euro V. Tatra, revealed that the air-cooled engine has more technical assumptions than previously was considered” one reader wrote to me. He acknowledges that the coming Euro VI standard is already the air cooled tmotor unattainable, however, believes that the Tatra survived thanks to its original concept.

Actually it is good that these rifts can still record. Equally emotive dispute is many years led the motoring LIAZ and Tatra, and the one you already nobody remembers, because North Bohemian manufacturer of road trucks privatization of its survivors.

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