History of Tatra Motor Cars / Automobiles

• 8.4.3. Tatra

• In about 1923 the “Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriksgesellschaft” company started  to call their car range “Tatra”.

• The company had produced their first car in 1897. See Part 1, The Early History, Section 7.3.

• In 1921 the company started work on the 1056 cc Tatra 11 and started selling the model in 1923.

• In 1926 it was replaced by the T 12, a car that had four wheel brakes, and shortly afterwards by the T17, a car with full independent suspension.

• In 1927 the company was renamed “Tatra a.s”.

• Production resumed after World War 2 in 1945 with the two-door 1,256 cc T57B model that was designed in 1939 and the larger T87.

• In 1947, two years after the company was nationalised, the Tatra T600 model went into production.

• This was  followed by the popular Tatra T603, which was produced for 20 years, from 1955 to 1975, with over 20,000 being sold.

• In 1996 Tatra started production of the T700. Three years later, in 1999, the company ceased manufacturing cars.

• Other cars produced by Tatra include models: T17, 57, 75, T77, 87, 97, 107 and 613.