LAURIN and KLEMENT

Laurin & Klement motorcycles and cars

 

Laurin & Klement

Laurin & Klement

Type	Private
Industry	Automotive
Founded	1895
Founder	Václav Laurin Václav Klement
Headquarters	Mladá Boleslav, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary

 Founders Václav Klement (left) and Václav Laurin in 1887

 Laurin $ Klement logo

 Škoda and Laurin & Klement plaques

Laurin & Klement was a Czech automobile, motorcycle and bicycle manufacturer brand founded 1895 in Mladá Boleslav, Kingdom of Bohemia by automotive pioneers Václav Laurin and Václav Klement. It was acquired by industrial conglomerate Škoda Works in 1925 and re-branded as Škoda Auto, which is today the largest car manufacturer in the Czech Republic and a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group.

History

The company was founded in 1895, and named after its two founders: Václav Laurin (born 27 September 1865, died 4 December 1930), and Václav Klement (born 16 October 1868, died 13 August 1938).

Car production commenced in 1905, and the company soon became the largest car manufacturer in Austria-Hungary. In 1925 the company was acquired by the Škoda Works, and operated henceforth under the brand Škoda Auto (Škoda).

Models

Laurin & Klement A (1905) Laurin & Klement B (1906) Laurin & Klement C (1906) Laurin & Klement E (1906) Laurin & Klement B2 (1907) Laurin & Klement C2 (1907) Laurin & Klement FC (1907) (racing car) Laurin & Klement FCS (1908) (racing car) Laurin & Klement BS (1908) Laurin & Klement EN (1909) Laurin & Klement FCR (1909) (racing car)

Laurin & Klement ENS (1910) Laurin & Klement T / Ta (1914) Laurin & Klement MK6 (Laurin & Klement MK6 / 445 / 450) (1920) Laurin & Klement A (1922) (Laurin & Klement A / 100) (1922) Laurin & Klement 105 (1923) Laurin & Klement 150 (1923) Laurin & Klement 350 (1925) Laurin & Klement 110 (1925) Laurin & Klement 120 (1925) Škoda 360 (Laurin & Klement 360) (1926)

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  Laurin & Klement Typ 1 motorcycle (1903)     1903 (Laurin & Klement) Slavia BZ 400 cc

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  Laurin & Klement tricycle

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  Laurint & Klement Typ A (1906)

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  Laurint & Klement Typ A

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  Laurin & Klement S

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  Laurin & Klement S

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  Laurin & Klement S

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  Laurin & Klement bus

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  Laurint & Klement RK-M

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  Laurin & Klement – Škoda 1101927 Laurin & Klement – Škoda 125

  

  1905 Laurin & Clement  1906 Laurin & Klement B 8-9 HP, Rakousko-Uhersko (Čechy)  1907 Laurin & Klement B2 10-12 HP, Rakousko-Uhersko (Čechy)1908 Laurin & Klement BS               1908 Laurin & Klement FCS, Rakousko-Uhersko (Čechy)

  

  1908 Laurin & Klement typ BS 1399ccm1911 Laurin & Klement Sg landaulet1911 Laurin & Klement Typ Sa1911-24 Laurin & Klement S1912-16 Laurin & Klement RK

  

  

See also

List of motorcycles of 1900 to 1909

External links

Biography of company founders (in Czech) Brief history with lots of model images (in Czech)

Václav Klement

Slavia BZ 400 cc uit 1903

Laurin & Klement 400 cc motorblok

Laurin & Klement is een historisch Tsjechisch merk van motorfietsen en automobielen.

De bedrijfsnaam was: Václav Laurin & Václav Klement, Továrna na Motocykly, Mladá Boleslav. Het bedrijf produceerde van 1899 tot 1908 motorfietsen.

Slavia

Toen Bohemen nog tot het Oostenrijk-Hongaarse keizerrijk behoorde openden boekhandelaar Václav Klement en technicus Václav Laurin de vélocipedefabriek Slavia. Nadat ze in contact waren gekomen met de gebroeders Werner gingen ze ook rijwielen met hulpmotor maken. Ze waren daarmee in hun land pioniers op motorgebied.

Laurin & Klement

Ze bouwden tot 1904 goede eencilinders en daarna ook V-twins met eigen motoren, zowel water- als luchtgekoeld en al voor 1905 was er een 5 pk viercilinder-lijnmotor met luchtkoeling die voor de export ook onder de naam Republik of Republic verkocht werd. De naam “Slavia” was toen al veranderd in Laurin & Klement.

De machines werden in Duitsland door Seidel & Naumann in Dresden in licentie gebouwd onder de namen Slavia en Germania en ook het Franse Alcyon bouwde L&K machines in licentie. In Groot-Brittannië werden de motorfietsen onder de naam Hawetson aan de man gebracht.

L&K begon zich steeds meer in automobielen te interesseren en in 1905 werd al een driewieler geproduceerd. In 1906 kwam de eerste auto. In 1908 beëindigde het bedrijf de motorfietsenproductie vrijwel geheel ten gunste van de automobielbouw, hoewel er waarschijnlijk tot in de jaren twintig nog mondjesmaat motorfietsen zijn geproduceerd.

Door de fusie met Škoda in 1925, verdween de merknaam Laurin & Klement. In 1996 is de naam Laurin & Klement (L&K) teruggekeerd, als uitvoeringsindicatie.

That’s it.

PRAGA Czech Republic

Praga 

 1930 Praga Alfa car

 An Austo-Hungarian Army Staff Car manufactured by Praga

Praga is a manufacturing company based in Prague, Czech Republic. In 2006, it was purchased by International Truck Alliance.

History

Praga was founded in 1907 to build motor cars as a venture between entrepreneur František Ringhoffer and the company 1. českomoravská továrna na stroje (“First Bohemian-Moravian Machine Works”, later a founding part of the ČKD factories). Ringhoffer only stayed for one year and in 1909 the trade name Praga (“Prague” in Latin) was adopted. One of its early models was built under licence from the Italian company of Isotta-Fraschini.

Praga also diversified into building engines and gearboxes for other applications such as aircraft and tanks.

In 1929 Praga merged with ČKD, one of Czechoslovakia’s largest engineering companies.

In 1929 ČKD’s BD motorcycle was re-branded under the Praga marque. This was an advanced four-stroke single-cylinder unit construction double overhead camshaft model of 500cc designed in 1927 by JF Koch. The “BD” designation was retained as its model name.

In 1932 Praga added a second motorcycle model, the BC. This had a single overhead camshaft engine of 350cc, shaft drive and a pressed steelframe. Praga ended production of both motorcycle models in 1933.

The factory was largely destroyed by air raids in 1945. After the Second World War it was rebuilt and resumed truck and bus construction. In 2007 it produces gearboxes and hydraulic machinery.

The M53/59 Praga was a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun developed in the late 1950s. It consists of a heavily modified Praga V3S 6 wheel drive truck chassis and twin 30 mm AA autocannon.

In June 2011 the company unveiled at Dutch Supercar Challenge GT races in Belgium, new car Praga R4 with eight-cylinder engine of 520 hp, which has not been so far homologated for normal road traffic. According to company owner Petr Ptacek will follow gradual steps, so new Praga cars were not seen only at racetracks, but we could meet them in traffic.

 Self-propelled anti-aircraft gun PV3S PLDVK vz. 53/59 – “Ještěrka” (“Lizard”). The chassis and the motor was produced in Praga.

Products

Automobiles

• Praga Mignon (od 1911)
• Praga Baby
• Praga Piccolo
• Praga Piccolo 1128
• Praga Super Piccolo
• Praga Lady
• Praga Alfa (1913-1942)
• Praga Golden
• Praga Grand 8 (od 1912) limousine
• Praga R4S

All Praga automobile production stopped by 1947, but was continued in 2011 when Praga constructed the R4S. It utilized a 3.2 liter V8 based on the Suzuki Hayabusa engine and produced 530 BHP, with a total weight of only 88 kilograms. The R4S have been well received throughout by the media, but the company’s choice to not utilize either CFD nor windtunnels has been criticiced. A neat feature on the R4S is the markings for camber and toe, which eliminates the need of advanced tools. Now, engineers know that a specific amount of “clicks” represents a certain degree of camber or toe.

Motorcycles

 1929 Praga BD motorcycle

• Praga BD 500 DOHC (1929-1933)
• Praga BC 350 OHC (1932-1933)
• Praga ED 250 (1999-2003) – enduro
• Praga ED 610 (2000-2003) – enduro

Praga Trucks

 Praga V3S truck

• Praga N (1915-1931) – 4 ton truck (4×2)
• Praga A150 (1947-1951) – 1.5 ton light truck (4×2)
• Praga RN (1933-1953) – 3 ton truck (4×2)
  • Praga RND (1934-1955) – modification of RN with diesel engine
• Praga RV (1935-1939) – 2 ton army truck (6×4)
• Praga ND (1938-?) – 7 ton heavy truck (4×2)
• Praga V3S (1952-1989) – 3 ton all-terrain truck (6×6)
• Praga S5T (1956-1974) – 5 ton truck (4×2)
• Praga UV100 (prototype 1985)
• Praga UV120 (prototype 1985)
• Praga UV80 (1992-2001) – multi-purpose medium truck (4×4)

Buses

• Praga NDO
• Praga RN and RND
• Praga A150 – autobus version of the A150 truck

Trolleybuses

• Praga TOT
• Unrealized projects: Praga TNT and Praga TB 2

Light Tank

 Panzer 38(t)Ausführung S in the German Panzermuseum in Munster.

• Praga LT vz. 38 (od 1938) light tank in service with the German Wehrmacht as Panzer 38(t)
• Praga LTH export version of the LT to Switzerland where it was called the Panzerwagen 39.

Cars, Buses + Trucks LiAZ Likinskiy Avtobusnyi Zavod Russia

LiAZ

Liaz 1937

(Russia)

LiAZ (Russian: Ликинский автобусный завод (ЛиАЗ) Likinskiy Avtobusnyi Zavod, English: Likino Bus Plant) is a bus manufacturing company located in Likino-Dulyovo, Russia. It is now a wholly owned subsidiary of GAZ.

For the defunct Czech truck manufacturing company see:LIAZ (Czech Republic)

LiAZ (Likino Bus Plant)

Native name	Ликинский автобусный завод
Industry	Bus manufacturing
Founded	1937
Headquarters	Likino-Dulyovo, Russia
Products	Buses, trolleybuses (2005–2012)
Employees	2,061
Website	liaz-bus.ru

A LiAZ-677M in Yelets (Lipetsk Oblast)

LiAZ-5256 bus (first generation) inStary Oskol (Belgorod Oblast)

LiAZ-5256 bus (second generation) in Oradea (Romania)

Two LiAZ-5292.20 buses in Moscow

LiAZ-5280 trolleybus in Kursk

History

The factory was created in 1937 as a wood processing plant LOZOD (Likino Engineered Wood Test Factory). It produced pressed wood products, as well as wood particle boards. In 1944 the factory was renamed to LiMZ (Likino Machinery Factory) and it started producing small machinery like power saws and portable generators.

In 1959 the factory started to assemble passenger buses ZIL-158. It was renamed to LiAZ the same year. In 1967 the factory designed and manufactured the first bus model of its own named LiAZ-677. The factory produced 194,183 buses of this model in the next 29 years.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, LiAZ started to experience difficulties. In 1996 bus manufacturing ceased and the factory declared bankruptcy in 1997. The factory has since been restructured and is known as LLC Likinskij Avtobusnyj Zavod. In 2000 it became part of the RusAvtoPromCorporation, and has been part of the GAZ Group since 2005.

The trolleybuses were produced by LiAZ from 2005 until 2012.

Models

Buses

Historical

• ZIL-158/LiAZ-158 (1959–1970), front-engined bus

• LiAZ-677 (1967–1996), front-engined bus

ZIL-158

• LiAZ-158 (ZIL-158V), 1965

• LiAZ-677M

• LiAZ-677M, rear view

  

Current model range

5256

• LiAZ-5256 (since 1986), rear-engined bus

• LiAZ-5292 (since 2004), rear-engined low-floor bus

• LiAZ-5293 (since 2006), rear-engined low-entry bus

• LiAZ-6212 (since 2002), articulated bus based on LiAZ-5256

• LiAZ-6213 (since 2007), low-floor articulated bus based on LiAZ-5292

• LiAZ-5292

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  LiAZ-5293

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  LiAZ-6212

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  LiAZ-6213

Trolleybuses

5280

• LiAZ-5280 (2005–2012), trolleybus based on LiAZ-5256

• LiAZ-52802, low-floor trolleybus based on LiAZ-5292

• LiAZ-52803, low-entry trolleybus based on LiAZ-5293

1957 LIAZ 706 RO LIAZ Skoda 706 11781cc Hiller-Aufbau

1962 LIAZ 676 123p 6×4

liaz-676

##### SO FAR WITH LiAZ RUSSIA #####

LIAZ

(Czech Republic)

For the Russian bus manufacturing company see: LiAZ (Russia)

LIAZ MT – one of most successful series

LIAZ (LIberecké Automobilové Závody – Liberec Automobil Works) is a defunct Czech and Czechoslovak manufacturer of trucks. The company was formed in 1951 by the government as a division of Škoda. In 1953 LIAZ became independent of Škoda, but still continued to use its name until 1984 (Škoda LIAZ). Main plants were in Rýnovice, Mnichovo Hradiště and Liberec, later there have been opened factories in Mělník, Zvolen, Veľký Krtíš,Přerov and Holýšov. In the 1970s LIAZ was the biggest Czechoslovak truck manufacturer. The production ceased in 2002.

Trucks

• Škoda 706 R
• Škoda 706 RT
• RT
• 100
• 200
• 300
• S
• FZ
• 400 Xena
• 400 Fox
• The Engine Plant of LIAZ trucks has been purchased by TEDOM Trucks which has also purchased all the technical data and drawings and is now marketing LIAZ Concept Trucks under the brand of FOX. The official website is. In late nineties LIAZ in Jablonec and Nisou was mainly producing diesel engines which were assembled and tested at the industrial estate.
• The engine line production actually tested every single engine by running it and collecting various parameters about it. Every n-th engine was sent to disassembly to check for any engine tolerances. The testing rigs were called Brzda (brake) where the engine was connected to fuel, exhaust extraction piping and electronic probes.
• The industrial estate of LIAZ has also been used for production of steam which is routinely used to heat housing estates. This highly presurised steam is piped to smaller transformer stations round the town of Jablonec nad Nisou. In the transformer stations, the pressure is reduced and used for heating blocks of flats.

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A few examples of products (click to truck-name redirected you to gallery of this vehicle on http://www.liaz.cz, or http://www.busportal.cz)

R series (1952–1958)

name	type	axles	drive	cab
ŠKODA 706 R	drop side truck	2	4×2	short
ŠKODA 706 RS	tipper	2	4×2	short
ŠKODA 706 ROK	garbage truck	2	4×2	middle

RT series (1956–1990)

name	type	axles	drive	cab
ŠKODA 706 RT	drop side truck	2	4×2	middle
ŠKODA 706 RTTN	truck tractor	2	4×2	middle
ŠKODA 706 RTS	tipper	2	4×2	middle
ŠKODA 706 RTHP	fire truck	2	4×4	double cab

MT series (1965–1990)

name	type	axles	drive	cab
ŠKODA LIAZ 706 MTC	drop side truck	2	4×2	middle
ŠKODA LIAZ 706 MTTN	truck tractor	2	4×2	middle
ŠKODA LIAZ 706 MTSP	tipper	2	4×4	short

100 series (1974–2003)

name	type	axles	drive	cab
ŠKODA LIAZ 100.47	truck tractor	2	4×2	middle
ŠKODA LIAZ 100.05	drop side truck	2	4×2	middle
LIAZ 111.054	drop side truck	2	4×4	middle
LIAZ 122.053	drop side truck	3	6×2	middle
LIAZ 151.261	tipper	2	4×4	short
LIAZ 101.860	fire truck	2	4×4	special

200 series (1990–1995)

name	type	axles	drive	cab
LIAZ 230.573	truck tractor	2	4×2	high
LIAZ 230.073	drop side truck	2	4×2	high
LIAZ 250.261	tipper	2	4×2	short
LIAZ 251.154	army truck	2	4×4	short
LIAZ 232.471	truck tractor	3	6×2	middle

300 series (1992–2003)

name	type	axles	drive	cab
ŠKODA LIAZ 18.33 TBV	truck tractor	2	4×2	high
ŠKODA LIAZ 18.29 PB	drop side truck	2	4×2	middle
ŠKODA LIAZ 18.29 SA	tipper	2	4×4	short
ŠKODA LIAZ 18.29 XA	fire truck	2	4×4	special
ŠKODA LIAZ 24.33 PZV	drop side truck	3	6×2/2	high
ŠKODA LIAZ 24.23 KYV	garbage truck	3	6×2/4	middle
ŠKODA LIAZ 29.33 SD	tipper	3	6×4	short
ŠKODA LIAZ 29.33 SDA	tipper	3	6×6	short
ŠKODA LIAZ 40.33 SC	tipper	4	8×4	short
ŠKODA LIAZ 12.18 PB/S	delivery truck	2	4×2	short Steyr

400 series (1996–2003)

name	type	axles	drive	cab
ŠKODA Xena	truck tractor	2	4×2	high
ŠKODA Fox	tipper	2	4×2	short

TEDOM 400 (2006–2009)

name	type	axles	drive	cab
TEDOM Fox	tipper	2	4×4	short
TEDOM Fox 6×4	tipper	3	6×4	short

That’s it

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