Velorex
Sign in to saveright|250px|thumb|Velorex thumb|250px|Velorex 453-0 thumb|250px|Velorex on video Velorex was a manufacturing cooperative in Solnice, Czechoslovakia. Notable products included a small three-wheeled car, produced from the 1950s until 1971, and the Type 562 sidecar. The sidecar is still manufactured in the Czech Republic by Velorexport, the successor to Velorex.
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- Velorex vehicles
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- 1936-00-00
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- 1973-00-00
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- Oskar 54
- Oskar 16/250
- Velorex 16/175
- Velorex 16/350
- Velorex 435-0
- Velorex sidecars
- "New Velorex"
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right|250px|thumb|Velorex thumb|250px|Velorex 453-0 thumb|250px|Velorex on video Velorex was a manufacturing cooperative in Solnice, Czechoslovakia. Notable products included a small three-wheeled car, produced from the 1950s until 1971, and the Type 562 sidecar. The sidecar is still manufactured in the Czech Republic by Velorexport, the successor to Velorex.
==History== Beginning in 1936, two brothers František (1914–1954) and Mojmír (1924–2011) Stránský, the owners of a bicycle repair shop in the market town of Parník (today part of Česká Třebová), began the design of a small, cheap three-wheeled car, inspired by three-wheelers from Morgan Motor Company. In 1943, they built their first prototype using steel tubing wrapped by dural sheet metal and some bicycle parts (later these would be replaced by parts from motorcycles). They named the vehicle Oskar ("kára na ose," or "cart on axle").