Paul Jaray

Paul Jaray, born on 11 March 1889 and died on 22 September 1974, was a Vienna-born engineer, designer and a pioneer of automotive streamlining. He worked as chief design engineer at Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen and from 1914 at Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, where he streamlined airships and designed the LZ 120 Bodensee, and wind tunnel experiments there led him to establish streamlining principles for car design. He designed his first streamlined car, the Ley T6, in 1922, and in 1923 founded the Stromlinien Karosserie Gesellschaft, which presented streamlined body designs for many makers, though few got beyond prototypes. Tatra in Czechoslovakia was the only manufacturer to use his principles in series production, on the Tatra T77. He died in St. Gallen in 1974.