The Skoda industrial concern purchased the Czech automobile manufacturer Laurin and Klement in 1925 and went on to become Czechoslovakia's biggest car company. Skoda's vehicles were generally conventional but following Hans Ledwinka's introduction of the central tube chassis in Tatra vehicles in 1924, Skoda engineers began looking at that design feature for their vehicles. In 1933 Skoda introduced its new 420 model featuring a central tube backbone chassis and independently sprung suspension on all four wheels. Like the Tatra vehicles it copied, this arrangement proved extremely useful on the rough roads of central Europe. Central tube chassis would be continued in Skoda cars right through into the postwar period until the 1960s.
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