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    Hans Ledwinka (14 February 1878 – 2 March 1967) was an Austrian automobile designer. Ledwinka was born in Klosterneuburg (Lower Austria), near Vienna...
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  • Joseph Ledwinka (December 14, 1870 – November 26, 1949) was an automobile engineer. Joseph V. Ledwinka, a distant relative of Hans Ledwinka, was born in...
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    Czechoslovakian company Tatra from 1934 to 1938. It was developed by Hans Ledwinka and Paul Jaray, the Zeppelin aerodynamic engineer. Launched in 1934...
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    built its first car, the Präsident, under the direction of engineers Hans Ledwinka and Edmund Rumpler. The Präsident was exhibited in Vienna later that...
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    V570 was a prototype 1931-33 car developed by a team led by Hans Ledwinka, Erich Ledwinka and Erich Übelacker. The aim of the construction team was to...
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    in 1946-47 by Josef Chalupa, Vladimír Popelář, František Kardaus and Hans Ledwinka. The name of the car celebrated the new Communist planned economy but...
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    Tatra 87 has unique bodywork. Its streamlined shape was designed by Hans Ledwinka and Erich Übelacker and was based on the Tatra 77, the first car designed...
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    the axle, not longitudinally as a rear engine. Hans Ledwinka The Austrian automobile designer Hans Ledwinka, whom Porsche was a contemporary, worked at the...
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    – The Legacy of Hans Ledwinka. Poundbury: Veloce Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-845847-99-9. Schmarbeck, Wolfgang (1997). Hans Ledwinka: Seine Autos Sein...
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    was extensively developed by Hans Ledwinka who used it in greater numbers on the Tatra 11 and subsequent vehicles. Ledwinka later used backbone frames with...
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    experimental and not practical). It was constructed by Leopold Sviták [cs] and Hans Ledwinka. The automobile was more of a carriage without horses than a car in...
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    1930s Tatra 77, 87, and 97 under the leadership of Hans Ledwinka. In 1930, Daimler-Benz entrusted Hans Nibel with the development of a small rear-engined...
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    Czechoslovakia and contributed to the imprisonment of Tatra's design guru Hans Ledwinka. The design was based on the proven Tatra concept of a backbone tube...
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    The design genius of Erich Ledwinka (son of legendary Tatra designer and father of the Volkswagen Beetle Hans Ledwinka) was utilized by the Austrian...
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    Kopřivnice in Moravia under the leadership of Hans Ledwinka. Together with Ledwinka's son Erich Ledwinka, Übelacker developed the Tatra type 57 and designed...
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    during 1936 to 1939. The car was similar to the contemporary designs of Hans Ledwinka of Tatra, in particular the Tatra V570 and Tatra 97. This resulted in...
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    77 of 1934, the first serial-produced aerodynamic car, designed by Hans Ledwinka. Tatra used this layout until end of production of T700 in 1999. In...
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  • to concentrate on producing Steyr automobiles under chief designers Hans Ledwinka and Ferdinand Porsche, as well as bicycles (colloquially called Waffenräder...
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    cheap rear-engined car, from 1925 to 1928. Also, in Czechoslovakia, the Hans Ledwinka-designed Tatra T77, a very popular car amongst the German elite, was...
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  • automobiles were made after 1918. In September 1917 Steyr recruited Hans Ledwinka, now remembered as one of the great automobile engineers of the twentieth...
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    engineer Vladimír Matouš and modelled on the one first introduced by Hans Ledwinka in Tatra. First used on model Škoda 420 Standard in 1933, it aimed at...
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    chief engineer Vladimír Matouš and derived from the one introduced by Hans Ledwinka at Tatra. First used on the 420 Standard in 1933, it aimed to solve...
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    which is still in use on the trucks produced by Tatra to this day. Hans Ledwinka created the design of the T11 while working for Steyr in Austria. He...
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    tractors. They hired 38-year-old designer Hans Ledwinka after he resigned from Nesselsdorfer-Wagenbau. Ledwinka developed Steyr's new six-cylinder car and...
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    rumors, not been involved in the design or production of the 50, nor was Hans Ledwinka, who had designed the Tatra V570. The little Steyr offered better seating...
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    Czechoslovak luxury full-size car built by Tatra between 1931 and 1935. Hans Ledwinka designed the car in 1930. It was launched in 1931, the same year as...
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  • Frederick Lanchester Car pioneer founder of the Lanchester Motor Company Hans Ledwinka Pioneered an advanced backbone chassis configuration and paved the way...
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    1934 Czechoslovakian Tatra 77, the first serial-produced aerodynamically designed automobile, designed by Hans Ledwinka and Paul Jaray...
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  • for them. Many of the design ideas were plagiarised from the work of Hans Ledwinka, the Tatra T97 and Tatra V570 with the Czechoslovakian Tatra (car) company...
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    deficiencies in the original design, Friedrich asked the then 77-year-old Hans Ledwinka, the former Tatra engineer, to design a robust chassis for the car....
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