Skoda Works

Škoda Works was the biggest industrial enterprise in Austria-Hungary and then Czechoslovakia and among the biggest in Europe. Founded by Emil Škoda in 1899 in Plzeň it soon became the leading arms manufacturer in the country producing heavy guns for navy, mountain guns or mortars as well as locomotives, aircraft, ships, machine tools, steam turbines, power-engineering equipment, etc. Škoda produced the world's first triple-barrelled gun turrets for the Viribus Unitis class of battleships of the Austro-Hungarian navy. Prior to World War II and during the occupation by Nazi Germany Škoda also produced LT-35 and LT-38 tanks, which are better known under their German labels Panzer 35(t) and Panzer 38(t).

Mountain guns produced by Škoda:

• Škoda 75 mm Model 15
• Škoda 75 mm Model 1928
• Škoda 75 mm Model 1936
• Škoda 75 mm Model 1939
• Škoda 100 mm Model 1916
• Škoda 100 mm Model 16/19
• Škoda 105 mm Model 1939
• Škoda 150 mm Model 1918

Other weapons produced by Škoda:

• Skoda 37 mm Model 1934
• Skoda 37 mm A7
• Skoda 149 mm K-series
  • Skoda 149 mm K1 / Model 1933
  • Skoda 149 mm K4 / Model 1937

The present-day company specializes in heavy machinery (such as nuclear reactors and locomotives). Mismanagement and lack of technological progress had weakened the company to only a shadow of its past glory.

External links

• Official website]