Škoda Hispano Suiza 25/100 hp

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Škoda Hispano Suiza
Front of a Škoda Hispano Suiza 25/100 PS (1928)
25/100 hp
Sales designation:	Škoda Hispano Suiza 25/100 hp
Production period:	1926-1929
Class :	Upper class
Body versions :	Touring car , limousine , Pullman limousine , coupé , cabriolet , landaulet
Engines:	Gasoline engine : 6.6 liters
Length:	4830 mm
Width:
Height:
Wheelbase :	3690 mm
Empty weight :	Chassis 1350 kg
Previous model	without
successor	without

The Škoda Hispano Suiza 25/100 PS , also Škoda license Hispano Suiza 25/100 PS called, was an upper class - passenger cars , the 1926 to 1929 by the Czech industrial group Škoda was made. The vehicle was a license replica of the Hispano Suiza Type H.6B .

Model history

In the early 1920s, as part of a comprehensive restructuring, Škoda also planned to build its own luxury class automobile and therefore acquired a production license for their top product H.6B in 1924 from the Spanish-French automobile and armaments company Hispano Suiza . This vehicle, presented in 1919 as the H.6, was considered one of the best on the market. In 1925 there was a merger between Škoda and the automobile manufacturer Laurin & Klement , which gave the group the know-how for automobile construction. Production of the 25/100 PS began at Škoda in Pilsen in 1925 . One of the first customers was the Czechoslovak government, which on July 25, 1925, ordered a 25/100 hp as a company car for President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk . The car was delivered in May 1926.

The production of the elaborate and very expensive car ended in 1929; the last one was delivered the following year. The production amounted to a minimum of 50 and a maximum of 101 vehicles.

technology

The vehicle largely corresponds to the Hispano Suiza H.6B. The water-cooled in- line six-cylinder four-stroke engine has a displacement of 6654 cm³ and an output of 100 hp (74 kW). It accelerates the vehicle up to 140 km / h. The alloy engine is of a V12 - aircraft engine derived, only one of the cylinder bank was needed. It has 12 valves in the engine block and dual ignition . The motor has a 100 mm bore and 140 mm stroke . Mathematically are the 6597 cc displacement . However, two sources give 6654 cm³ displacement. The engine output is 135 bhp at 2600 rpm. The maximum torque is 475 Nm at 1600 rpm. The lower output of the 25/100 hp is due to a lower compression ratio , which was due to the lower octane rating of the fuel.

The three-speed gearbox flanged to the engine block is unsynchronized . The power is transmitted to the rear wheels via a cardan shaft . The box frame of the car consists of riveted steel U-profiles. The vehicle has rigid axles at the front and rear that are suspended from semi-elliptical springs and the Houdaille system lever shock absorbers . A special feature of the H.6 series is its mechanical brake booster.

All superstructures were made of a wood-steel mixed construction and were built according to customer requirements. It is not known whether and which versions were offered as factory bodies. Škoda's in-house body department contributed a total of 23 superstructures, the remaining chassis received superstructures from special companies.

Hispano-Suiza 25/100 hp today

Škoda Hispano Suiza 25/100 PS Jech Berline Décapotable (1928) at the Rétromobile 2012 in Paris

There are only five vehicles left, including one built by JO Jech in Prague as a Berline Décapotable (a large, four-door full convertible with separation).

Other licenses

Škoda acquired further production licenses, for example for

• Sentinel steam truck
• Lorraine-Dietrich aircraft engines

literature

• Johnny Green: The Legendary Hispano Suiza. Dalton Watson Ltd., Publishers, London W1V 4AN, England, 1977, ISBN 0-90156-421-4 .
• Paul Badré: Les automobiles Hispano-Suiza des origines à 1949. ETAI publisher (Éditions Techniques pour l'Automobile et l'Industrie), 2015; ISBN 979-1-0283-0062-3 .
• Paul Badré: Toute l'histoire Hispano Suiza. Editions E / P / A, 1994, ISBN 2-85120448-3 .
• RM Clarke: Hispano Suiza - Road Test Portfolio. Brooklands Books, Velocepress, 2011; ISBN 1-58850-160-4 .
• Kent Carslake: L'Automobile Hispano-Suiza , 1st part in: Motor Sport , May 1950
• Kent Carslake: L'Automobile Hispano-Suiza , 2nd part in: Motor Sport , June 1950
• Clive Gallop: Notes on Kent Carslake: L'Automobile Hispano-Suiza , 1st and 2nd part in: Motor Sport , August 1950
• Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Caron: Guide de l'Automobile française. Éditions Solar, Paris, 1988; ISBN 2-263-01105-6 .

Web links

Commons : Škoda - Hispano Suiza  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• extratouch.de: ŠKODA Hispano Suiza - premiere for the arrow.
• Bruno von Rotz, Zwischengas, February 11, 2012: What does Skoda actually have to do with Hispano-Suiza?

Individual evidence

1. ^ Petr Kožíšek, Jan Králík: L&K - Škoda. Part I. Years of Ascension. 1895-1945. Moto Public 2004, ISBN 80-239-1853-2 , p. 328.
2. ↑ Information from Škoda (English, accessed on November 16, 2019)
3. ↑ Ultimate carpage : Hispano-Suiza H.6B Mitchel Landaulet.