Skoda 1101 Tudor started post-war production at our car factory. However, the car was a continuation of the pre-war years, it had a classic concept with a backbone frame from the Popular model. It got the name Tudor thanks to its elegant two-door body. The honored expression from the English words Two doors was then used for all versions regardless of the number of doors. In addition to the classic car, a four- door version, a special ambulance , a convertible and a box van were also produced.
Under the hood, the car had a liquid-cooled inline four-cylinder OHV with a volume of 1089 cc. The output was 23.5 kW, i.e. about 32 horses. The four-speed gearbox only had synchros on the third and fourth gears. The shift lever was originally on the central tunnel, in the modernized type 1102 it was moved to the column under the steering wheel. The 35-liter tank was located in front of the partition between the cabin and the engine. The front wheels were independently suspended on trapezoidal arms , suspension provided by a transverse leaf spring . There were only drum brakes under the sixteen-inch wheels. The floor platform, front and rear parts were made of sheet metal, but the frame of the central part was still made of wood. Only then were the sheet metal parts of the body mounted on it. Thanks to this, it was possible to reduce the weight of the car below one ton. The car was able to go up to 100 km/h while consuming only 10 liters of fuel on average.
Sportier two-seater roadsters were originally produced in Mladá Boleslav only for export, then production moved to Vrchlabí and Kvasin . The usual two-door sedan was originally superior in production to its four-door sibling, but already in 1949 the situation turned around. In the same year, the STW three-door station wagon was also launched. At that time, Karosa Brno and the Brožík body shop in Pilsen were still producing in the Woody style (the wooden structure was not sheet metal). The sheet-metal structure rolled out of the gates of the factories in Rousínov and Letňany , where Tudor replaced the production of the Aero Minor .
In the end, it is said that about 67,000 cars of the 1101 and 1102 Tudor type were produced. Of these, roughly 29,000 cars had two-door bodies and 18,000 had four-door bodies. In 1951, production in Mladá Boleslav was officially ended, but a year later the last vans were being assembled in Vrchlabí .
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