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Ledwinka returned to Tatra company (originally Nesselsdorfer-Wagenbau) in Kopřivnice (Nesselsdorf), then in Czechoslovakia, now in Czech Republic, and between 1921 and 1937 he was their chief design engineer.
Together with his son Erich, who took over as chief designer at Tatra, Ledwinka and Erich Übelacker, a German engineer also employed by Tatra, designed the streamlined Tatra models T77, T77a, T87, and T97.
Both Hitler and Porsche were influenced by the Tatras.[1] Hitler was a keen automotive enthusiast, and had ridden in Tatras during political tours of Czechoslovakia.[1] He had also dined numerous times with Hans Ledwinka.[1] After one of these dinners Hitler remarked to Porsche, "This is the car for my roads".[1][2] while the book Car Wars, quotes Hitler as saying it was "the kind of car I want for my highways".[3] In any case, of Ledwinka, Porsche admitted "Well, sometimes I looked over his shoulder and sometimes he looked over mine" while designing the Volkswagen Type 1.[1][2][3] There is no doubt that the Type 1 bore a striking resemblance to the earlier Tatra.[1]Tatra launched a lawsuit, but this was stopped when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia. At the same time, Tatra was forced to stop producing the T97. The matter was re-opened after World War II and in 1965 Volkswagen paid Ringhoffer-Tatra 1,000,000 Deutsche Marks in an out of court settlement.[4]
Kapitalistinis VW sumokėjo milijoną Vokietijos markių jau socialistinei Tatrai:)
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