Julius Mackerle (18 June 1909

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– 11 September 1988) was a Czech inventor and automobile engineer.

Life

His father, Julius, owned a brick works firm in

and his brother Jaroslav Mackerle (1913–1964) was an architect, designer and amateur archeologist. Julius Mackerle was an inventor, automobile engineer and head designer of Tatra

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, a specialist on air-cooled engines. He studied at the Technical University in Brno where he constructed his first motorcar – a two-seater sport roadster with 1,000cc JAP motorcycle engine. He finished his studies in 1935. Initially he worked at Škoda Plzeň as a head of motor engine department and then he transferred to the

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branch of Škoda. In 1948 he started to work for Tatra in

, where he designed engines for Tatra trucks T 128 and 138. In 1949 under his leadership an engine for a racing

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T607 and T607-2 with ejector cooling system was developed. In the early 1950s, Mackerle designed the concept for the Tatra T603 V8 engine. In 1958 Mackerle worked as a director of engine design at Ústav pro výzkum motorových vozidel (Institute for Research and Development of Automobiles) where he designed an experimental car Rotoped. He lectured at Technical Universities in

, Brno and Bratislava. In 1962 in

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he received the Herbert Akroyd Stuart Prize given by the

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. Between 1964 and 1970 Mackerle invented Rotoped Walking Wheel. Mackerle was an author of a number of books and articles.

Bibliography

*Julius Mackerle: Americký automobil, Prague 1947 (co-author: V. Grečenko) *Julius Mackerle: Automobilové vzduchem chlazené motory, Prague 1961 *Julius Mackerle: Air-Cooled Motor Engines, Cleaver-Hume Press, London 1961 *Julius Mackerle: Air-Cooled Automobile Engines, The Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London 1961-2 *Julius Mackerle: Automobil dneška a zítřka, Prague 1977 *Julius Mackerle: Motory závodních automobilů, Prague 1980 *Julius Mackerle: Automobil s lepší účinností, Prague 1985 *Julius Mackerle: Malý universální kovoobráběcí stroj, Bratislava 1988

References

Nigel Boothman: 'Engines That Moved Us: Tatra 603 V8', ''Classic Cars'' magazine (UK), April 2010, pp. 82–85

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