!!!Ledwinka, Hans

b. Klosterneuburg (Lower Austria), Feb. 14, 1878, 
d. Munich (Germany), Feb. 14, 1967, car designer. 1921-1945 chief 
designing engineer of the firm TATRA-Werke in Kopřivnice, Czech 
Republic (then Nesseldorf). Invented the frameless central tubular 
chassis with swing axles and the air-cooled pancake engine. From 1955 
his son Erich L. constructed the vehicles Puch 500,  Haflinger and  
Pinzgauer at the  Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG works in Graz.

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