Karosa
| Karosa
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| legal form | as |
| founding | 1896 |
| resolution | 2008 (renamed Iveco Czech Republic ) |
| Seat | Vysoké Mýto |
| Branch | Bus manufacturers , coachbuilders |
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Karosa was a bus manufacturer and body builder for Czech fire engines from Vysoké Mýto in the Czech Republic . In 2007 the company was renamed Iveco Czech Republic .
history
In 1895 Joseph Sodomka founded a factory for the manufacture of wagons in Hohenmauth (Vysoké Mýto). In 1948 Karosa was the only bus manufacturer in Czechoslovakia . Other manufacturers such as Škoda and Tatra were not allowed to compete. Karosa started producing city buses in the late 1950s. From 1994, Karosa was gradually taken over by Renault . Production of the 800 series began in 1997. In the same year the new 900 series was produced.
In 1999 the company was integrated into Irisbus and the name Karosa lost its meaning completely. In 2007 the company was renamed Iveco Czech Republic and the name Karosa was thus abolished; instead, the buses were now manufactured as Irisbus or, since the name Irisbus was abolished in 2013, as Iveco . However, some models developed by Karosa are still in production.
Until the 1990s, Karosa also produced superstructures for Czech fire engines , including for Tatra and Praga .
Well-known omnibus models
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Jendsch: Eastern European fire engines . Motorbuch Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-613-03353-5 .
- ↑ From carriage to high-tech bus - car manufacturer "Karosa" in Vysoké Mýto near Radio Praha .