Aero Minor

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Aero Minor II as a sedan
... as a station wagon from 1950
... in the rear view
... and as a racing car from 1946

Aero Minor (also Aero-Minor ) was a Czechoslovak car brand.

Brand history

The company Letecké závody from Prague -Letňany considered to be the manufacturer of the vehicles. Production took place at least partially in Walter's former factory in Jinonice . Production ended in 1951 or 1952.

vehicles

The only production model was the Aero Minor II small car presented in 1946 . He had a two-cylinder engine of Jawa .

The Aero Minor III with a modern pontoon body got stuck in the prototype stage.

A copy of the open racing car Minor Sport from 1946 is in the Automobile Museum Aspang in Aspang-Markt in Lower Austria .

Production and export figures

Depending on the source, a total of 14,114 vehicles or 14,187 vehicles were built.

Over half of the vehicles were exported. Over 2000 vehicles were sold to Sweden and the Netherlands , 1300 to Belgium , 600 to Switzerland and over 500 to Austria . Other export countries were France , Egypt , Brazil and Uruguay .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Aero Minor.
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 1 A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 18-19. (English)
  • Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Encyclopedie automobilů. České a slovenské osobní automobily od roku 1815 do současnosti. Computer Press, Brno 2007, ISBN 978-80-251-1587-9 , pp. 18-19. (Czech)

Web links

Commons : Aero Minor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Aero Minor.
  2. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader: The great automobile encyclopedia. BLV Verlag, Munich 1985, p. 181.
  3. ↑ Roger Gloor: Post-War Car. Hallwag, Bern 1986, ISBN 3-444-10263-1 , p. 47.
  4. ↑ a b c d Bernard Vermeylen: Cars from the Eastern Bloc. All models since 1945. Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-7688-3149-9 , pp. 109–113.
  5. ^ George Ralph Doyle, George Nick Georgano: The World's Automobiles 1862–1962. A record of 100 years of car building. Temple Press Books, London 1963, p. 28. (English)
  6. ^ George Nick Georgano: The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present. 3. Edition. Dutton Verlag, New York 1982, ISBN 0-525-93254-2 , p. 30. (English)
  7. ↑ a b c d e George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 1 A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 18-19. (English)
  8. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, London 2000, ISBN 0-7864-0972-X , p. 12. (English)
  9. ↑ George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975, p. 75. (French)
  10. ↑ a b c Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Encyklopedie automobilů. České a slovenské osobní automobily od roku 1815 do současnosti. Computer Press, Brno 2007, ISBN 978-80-251-1587-9 , pp. 18-19. (Czech)
  11. ↑ GTÜ - Society for Technical Monitoring (accessed on February 20, 2016)
  12. ↑ dauto (Dutch, accessed February 20, 2016)
  13. ↑ a b Allcarindex (English, accessed on February 20, 2016)