i learned today that skoda also make trams, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0koda_15_T

was completly amazed at this and only came across it because i was looking at blackpool trams

They've also made buses and other things...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Škoda_Works#section_1

Yup, "Skoda Transportation" is the company - found it by accident when I was trying to find about who they use to transport their cars

You can browse their beautiful products here: http://www.skoda.cz/en/

I also took a photo of this unlikely item which Skoda made.

It was installed here.

The Skoda company was originally a heavy engineering company, specialising in armaments, heavy guns and tanks etv.

Laurent & Klement made cars.

Skoda only bought out Laurent & Klement just before WWII broke out, and after the war the communist govt. in Czechoslovakia hived off the car division as Skoda Automotive as a separate company, and it was this bit that 50 years later was bought by VW.

The main Skoda engineering coy. carried on separately.

In fact the car division never really had anything much to do with the main original company, as technically they were only associated with it for about 7 years, mostly during German occupation, but kept the Skoda name.

Skoda have been around a lot longer than people think.

1869 when the name Skoda came into things when 'Emil Skoda' took over the Foundry.

Google is a wonderful thing.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Skoda

george

This is quite enlightening as to what was produced by Skoda:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0koda_Works

Some of the interesting products during the war were Panzer tanks for the German army.

I believe that they have recently supplied body pressing tools for Bentley and they are definately a major component maker for the VW group. To think that twenty or so years after becoming part of VW to producing parts that are used in Audis is quite an acheivment.

I've seen a Skoda metal working Laythe in a workshop. They produce boilers, Turbines and plenty of other things.

There has been threads about them too: Skoda don't just do cars/