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Aero-Minor 1947-1951 - Czechoslovakian car brand

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Created in 2008

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Roger Gloor

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Aero Minor II (1949) - through the trees in spring

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Aero Minor II (1949) - in spring

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Aero Minor II (1949) - two-door

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Aero Minor II (1949) - pleasing and affordable

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Aero Minor II (1949) - small car from Jawa

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Aero Minor II (1949) - in the great outdoors

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Aero Minor II (1949) - pleasing and aerodynamic silhouette

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Aero Minor II (1949) - Interior

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Aero Minor II (1949) - compact sedan

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Aero Minor II (1949) - A look under the hood

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Aero Minor II (1949) - Chassis and engine with the water cooler behind it

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Aero Minor II (1949) - Rear axle

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Aero Minor II (1949) - as a station wagon at the 1949 Geneva Motor Show

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Aero Minor (1950) - spacious station wagon based on the Czech front-wheel drive car - Geneva Motor Show 1950

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Aero Minor II (1950) - on a desert expedition

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Aero Minor II (1951) - is this really an Aero Minor II?

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There were around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of them have disappeared. One of these vanished brands is Aero-Minor, a merger of the Prague Aero works and the Jawa brand. The Aero-Minor II was also sold abroad and a total of 14,000 Aero-Minor cars are said to have been produced.

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Even before the Second World War, the Czechoslovak motorcycle and small car factory Jawa had already produced a small car under the model name Minor. From 1940, under chief designer Rudolf Vykoukal (in hiding from the German occupying forces), work began on further development. The design principles remained unchanged: Central girder chassis, front-wheel drive with water-cooled two-stroke two-cylinder engine installed in front of the front axle, four-speed gearbox with differential blocked. The Aero-Werke in Prague, which built airplanes and automobiles, had also developed new models, which went into production as early as 1946. While the Jawa brand was henceforth reserved for motorcycles, the small car introduced in 1947 was given the name Aero-Minor II.

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