Škoda 422

Škoda
Škoda 422, barn find in the Škoda Muzeum
422
Sales designation:	422
Production period:	1930-1932
Class :	Lower middle class
Body versions :	Sedan, Coupé, Phaeton, Landaulet, Roadster, touring car
Engines:	Otto engines : 1195 cm³ (16 kW)
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Wheelbase :	2600 mm
Empty weight :	950 kg

The Škoda 422 is a car model from the Czech car manufacturer Škoda Auto and designed as a smaller sister model of the Škoda 430 . It came out in 1930 with various (mostly two-door) bodies in a wood / steel mixed construction. In the same year, the Škoda 422 with an open body cost 33,000 crowns and with a sedan body 37,000 crowns. The car was built until 1932, around 3500 vehicles were sold.

technology

Drive, rear axle and suspension

The frame of the car consists of riveted steel U-profiles and runs trapezoidally towards the front, the rigid axles at the front and rear are suspended from leaf springs, the wheelbase is 2600 mm. The car is right-hand drive. The water-cooled, side-controlled four-cylinder four-stroke gasoline engine has a displacement of 1195 cm³ and a Zenith carburetor as well as a 12-volt battery ignition. The power is 22 HP (16 kW). It accelerates the 950 kg vehicle up to 75 km / h. The drive power is transmitted to the rear wheels via the gearbox flanged to the engine block and a cardan shaft. The fuel consumption is 9 l / 100 km.

swell

• Jiří Dufek, Jan Králík: Historie automobilů Škoda: od roku 1905 do současnosti , Grada Publishing as 2015, ISBN 9788024759463 . P. 66
• Alois Pavlůsek: Století automobilů Škoda - Od roku 1905 , CPress, Albatros Media as, 2016, ISBN 9788026404927 . P. 51

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