Aero 50 HP

1938

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In autumn 1936, the Aero car factory introduced its new 2-litre four-cylinder Aero 50 HP, which was pro- duced in several versions of both closed and open bodies. One of them was an open two-seat roadster. Only 171 Aero 50 HP roadsters were made by 1939 but at its time, it was the most dynamic serially produced sports car made in Czechoslovakia.

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Aero 50 HP roadsters identical to the car from collections of the NTM exhibited here participated in 1937 and 1938 in a number of races and competitions. They were successful on the Lochotín, Krakonoš, Zdiby, Bohdaneč, and Český Brod circuits, in the 500 Slovak Kilometres race, as well as in the Little Entente Competition. In 1937, Vladimír Vojtěchovský with one of these cars ended in overall thirty-seventh place in Rallye Monte Carlo and second in category in Rajd Polski.

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Sports car with a water-cooled two-stroke four-cylinder engine located behind the front axle and with a front- wheel drive. Engine displacement 1998 cc, output 35 kW (48 hp), maximum speed 125 km/h. Producer: Aero - továrna letadel, Dr. Kabeš, Praha.

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President of the Aero Car Club Stanislav Káfuněk in an Aero 50 HP roadster on 16 September 1937 in Bucharest at the finishing line of one of the stoges of the Little Entente Competition. Based on the licence plate, it seems he borrowed the car from Vojtěchovský.
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Česy Brod cirtuit on 24 April 1938 start of the category of cars over 1500 cc. From the left Jan Kubíček Bugatti-Ford, Ladislav Mikula and Vladimír Vojtěchovský (both on Aero 50 HP). They finished the 76.5 km-long race in the same ander