1939 Aero 50 HP - a President's car
The Aero aircraft factory in Prague made small cars from 1929 with single-cylinder and later twin-cylinder two-stroke engines and with rear wheel drive. In 1934 it launched production of a bigger car, the Aero 30 HP, which had a one-litre two-stroke twin-cylinder engine driving the front wheels and was offered in several different versions of open and closed bodies. Then two years later the company added to this car on the market the two-litre four-cylinder Aero 50 HP, similar in design and appearance. In the Autumn of 1939 the exhibited car with Sodomka cabriolet body was assembled from the imported parts in London for Czechoslovak President in exile Edvard Beneš and his wife Hana, later on during World War II it served the Czechoslovak diplomatic corps in Great Britain.
The car was returned to its land of origin in 2012 due to the kindness of Mr Philip Goldsmith.
Passenger car with a water-cooled two-stroke four-cylinder engine placed length-wise behind the front axle and with front wheel drive.
Producer: Aero továrna letadel, Dr. Kabeš, Prague, Bohemia
Engine displacement: 1,998 cm³
Power: 48 hp
Top speed 125 km/h
National Technical Museum - Národní technické muzeum, Prague
1939 Aero 50 HP - a President's car
The Aero aircraft factory in Prague made small cars from 1929 with single-cylinder and later twin-cylinder two-stroke engines and with rear wheel drive. In 1934 it launched production of a bigger car, the Aero 30 HP, which had a one-litre two-stroke twin-cylinder engine driving the front wheels and was offered in several different versions of open and closed bodies. Then two years later the company added to this car on the market the two-litre four-cylinder Aero 50 HP, similar in design and appearance. In the Autumn of 1939 the exhibited car with Sodomka cabriolet body was assembled from the imported parts in London for Czechoslovak President in exile Edvard Beneš and his wife Hana, later on during World War II it served the Czechoslovak diplomatic corps in Great Britain.
The car was returned to its land of origin in 2012 due to the kindness of Mr Philip Goldsmith.
Passenger car with a water-cooled two-stroke four-cylinder engine placed length-wise behind the front axle and with front wheel drive.
Producer: Aero továrna letadel, Dr. Kabeš, Prague, Bohemia
Engine displacement: 1,998 cm³
Power: 48 hp
Top speed 125 km/h
National Technical Museum - Národní technické muzeum, Prague