The Jawa 700 was a car produced by
Jawa in
Czechoslovakia
, rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי,
, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
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during the 1930s.
Background
František Janeček
František Janeček was the founder of Jawa motorcycles and an important figure in the development of the Czech motorcycle industry. He died on 4 June 1941.
Early life
Janeček was born on 23 January 1878 in Klášter nad Dědinou, a small villa ...
, the founder of the successful Czech motorcycle manufacturer Jawa, signed a license agreement with
Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen
Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen (30 July 1878 – 12 August 1964) was a Danish engineer and industrialist.
Life
The son of a shipmaster who died when Rasmussen was still a young child, he attended middle school in Nakskov and in 1894 began an appre ...
of
DKW
DKW (''Dampf-Kraft-Wagen'', en, "steam-powered car", also ''Deutsche Kinder-Wagen'' en, "German children's car". ''Das-Kleine-Wunder'', en, "the little wonder" or ''Des-Knaben-Wunsch'', en, "the boy's wish"- from when the company built to ...
on 20 July 1933 to produce the German company's cars in Czechoslovakia.
The first fruit of this agreement was the Jawa 700, based on the
DKW F2 Meisterklasse, which was known internally as the 701.
Design
The 700 was a front-wheel drive vehicle with a two stroke engine. It differed from its DKW parent in having a longer wheelbase and wheels. Unusually, as cars in Czechoslovakia drove on the left at the time, the car was
left hand drive.
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Production
The 700 was launched at the 1934 Prague Motor Show.[ Priced at 22,900 CSK in its four-seater guise, 1,002 vehicles were manufactured before production ceased in June 1937.]
Performance
The Jawa 700 could reach a top speed of between and had a typical fuel consumption of between .[
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References
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Cars introduced in 1934
Cars of the Czech Republic
Front-wheel-drive vehicles
Sedans
Roadsters