Tatra 11

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Tatra T11

Overview
Manufacturer	Tatra
Also called	Tatra 11
Production	1923 - 1927
Designer	Hans Ledwinka
Body and chassis
Layout	FR layout
Related	Tatra 12 Tatra 57 Tatra 54
Powertrain
Engine	1,055 cc (64.4 cu in) air-cooled OHV flat two
Chronology
Successor	Tatra 12

The Tatra T11^[1] was the first Tatra model to use the unique combination of major components that are still in use on the trucks produced by Tatra to this day.

Origins

Hans Ledwinka created the design of the T11 while working for Steyr in Austria. He believed there was a need for a small car, and carried out the work in his own time. His design offered to the Steyr management was rejected. He left the company soon after to work for a previous employer, Nesseldorfer, in Moravia, soon to become Tatra. This was in 1921 and the development of the T11 started soon after. The T11 was produced between 1923 and 1927 with 3,847 examples made. It was then replaced by the T12 a development of the design, 7,222 being produced by 1936 when it was discontinued.

Specifications

The Tatra T11 had its engine and gearbox in unit, bolted to the front of a tubular backbone with propeller shaft enclosed, that also doubled as the chassis. Bolted to the rear of the backbone is a final drive unit that, using an assembly of gears, not only changes the direction and speed of the drive, but facilitate the movement of swing axles without the need for flexible drive joints.

The T11's engine was a fan-cooled horizontally opposed twin cylinder engine with overhead valves. It had a capacity of 1,055 cc (64.4 cu in) and was located above the front beam axle which was attached to it by a transverse elliptical leaf spring.

T11 engine
T11 chassis

Legacy

From 1931 the T12 was joined the T57 with a 1155 cc air-cooled flat four engine, and the T54 with a 1465 cc engine of the same configuration, both models being based on the original T11 format. Only 486 T 54 models were produced by 1936 when production stopped.

The T57 was developed as the T57A, T57B, and T57K versions, remaining in production until 1948, by which time over twenty seven thousand had been produced, the later models having a 1256 cc engine.

References

↑ "Tatra 11". Retrieved 24 June 2010.

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