Tatra 52

The Tatra 52 is a Czechoslovak mid-size car built from 1931 to 1939, at the Tatra works in Kopřivnice and also under licence by Rohr at Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Tatra launched the Type 52 in 1931 to replace the Type 30/52, and like its predecessor it has the Tatra backbone chassis and a 30 hp air-cooled 1,910 cc overhead valve flat-four engine giving a top speed of 90 km/h. It has a dry clutch, a four-speed gearbox, rear half-axles on transverse leaf springs and hydraulically operated drum brakes. Bodies included a four-door sedan, a four-seat convertible and a six-seat landaulet, with more luxurious versions from outside coachbuilders, and in 1935 the body was revised to match the Tatra 75 and the output rose to 32 hp. About 1,700 cars were built before production ceased in 1939, 1,157 of them four-door limousines. Its engine was also used in trucks and in the Tatra 72 three-axle off-road vehicle.