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Stanisław Panczakiewicz
Stanisław Panczakiewicz was a pioneering Polish car body designer and engineer. Career Panczakiewicz attended Staszic junior high school in Warsaw. After the outbreak of World War I, he interrupted his studies in 1916 to join the Polish Legions in World War I, Polish Legions in the Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire. He served in the 5th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Brigade of the Polish Legions. In 1917, due to the Oath crisis, he was interned together with his regiment in Zegrze near Warsaw. Thanks to the help from his family, he regained his freedom, but on condition that he joined the Central Committee of the Army as a one-year volunteer. Since his father was from the Austrian partition, Stanisław was granted Austro-Hungarian citizenship. In 1918 Panczakiewicz was sent to the infantry officer school in Opava. Before that, he filled the gap in his education by obtaining a secondary school leaving certificate in Kraków. He left officer school with the rank of ensign. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PZInż 403 Lux-Sport
PZInż 403 Lux-Sport was a car designed by the Państwowe Zakłady Inżynieryjne (PZInż). History In 1934 the Państwowe Zakłady Inżynieryjne started work on a Polish luxury car for government officials that would replace foreign automobiles. The project was led by Kazimierz Studzinski, and in five months the car was designed and a chassis was complete. The car was of a simple, yet modern construction designed by Alexsander Rummel and Mieczysław Dębicki based on a central frame of two C-profiled beams. The car was called the Lux-Sport (or L-S) and had a completely independent suspension and used very long torsion bars as springing elements. The number of produced prototypes is not known, but at least one complete prototype, and one chassis for exhibitions were built. The PZInż 403 could have entered production in the 1940s, but the plans were abruptly stopped by the outbreak of World War II. Though the prototype did not survive the war, the chassis was found after the war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FSC Star
Fabryka Samochodów Ciężarowych "Star" (FSC Star), also known simply as Star, was a Polish truck manufacturer. The name comes from the City of Starachowice, where the factory is located. Their first vehicle was the ''Star 20'' in 1948. The most popular product was the '' Star 266''. The 266 model offered very good quality and powerful engines for a low price. It was sold in various countries for many years (not only in the Eastern Bloc; for example it was used by the Yemen Army). For many years, FSC Star was a state-owned company. Star is now owned by MAN AG who retired the brand in January 2009. History The state-owned company Fabryka Samochodów Ciężarowych im. Feliksa Dzierżyńskiego was established in 1948 in place of a Lilpop, Rau i Loewenstein supplier, which had been there since 1920. In 1991, the company was transformed into Zakład Starachowicki STAR SA. In the mid-90s control of the company was taken over by Sobiesław Zasada Centrum S.A. It tried without suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leyland Motors
Leyland Motors Limited (later known as the Leyland Motor Corporation) was an English vehicle manufacturer of lorries, buses and trolleybuses. The company diversified into car manufacturing with its acquisitions of Triumph and Rover in 1960 and 1967, respectively. It gave its name to the British Leyland Motor Corporation, formed when it merged with British Motor Holdings in 1968, to become British Leyland after having been nationalised. British Leyland later changed its name to simply BL, then in 1986 to Rover Group. After the various vehicle manufacturing businesses of BL and its successors went defunct or were divested, the following marques survived: Jaguar and Land Rover, now built by Jaguar Land Rover owned by TATA Motors; MG, now built by MG Motor, and Mini, now built by BMW. The truck building operation survived largely intact as Leyland Trucks, a subsidiary of Paccar. History Beginning Leyland Motors has a long history dating from 1896, when the Sumne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PZL Mielec
PZL Mielec (''Polskie Zakłady Lotnicze'' - Polish Aviation Works), formerly WSK-Mielec (''Wytwórnia Sprzętu Komunikacyjnego'') and WSK "PZL-Mielec" is a Polish aerospace manufacturer based in Mielec. It is the largest aerospace manufacturer in postwar Poland. In 2007, it was acquired by Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, which retained the brand name. Between 1948 and 2014, the company manufactured approximately 15,600 aircraft. History Before 1945 In 1938-1939, ''Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze'' ("State Aviation Works"; PZL), Poland's largest aviation company, built a factory in Mielec, designated PZL WP-2 (''Wytwórnia Płatowców 2''; "Airframe Factory no. 2"). Production there began just before the outbreak of World War II. In March 1939, the plant began manufacturing its first aircraft — PZL.37 Łoś bombers, assembled from components delivered from the PZL WP-1 factory in Warsaw.Gruszczyński, J. (2014), pp. 8–10 There were 700 workers at that time. During Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Werner
Jerzy Werner (22 April 1909 Krosno, Galicia – 8 October 1977 Łódź) was a professor at the Technical University of Lodz, the constructor of the first Polish lorries A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport freight, carry specialized payloads, or perform other utilitarian work. Trucks vary greatly in size, power, and configuration, but the vast majority feature body-on-frame construction ..., the Star 20 and Valentina, a builder of chassis for trucks at Państwowe Zakłady Inżynieryjne, PZInż (National Industry Works) prior to World War II, and a Pawiak prisoner. From 1962-1968, Werner was rector (academia), rector of the Lodz University of Technology, Technical University of Lodz; from 1965-1972, he was a Member of Parliament for the 4th and 5th terms of the Sejm of the History of Poland (1945–89), Polish People’s Republic (as an independent politician). Between world wars, Werner was a constructor of a truck chassis for the PZInż 703 and 71 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
