Catalog number: NL11AO

Label Sheet - Aero 30

Philatelic Adhesive Sheet Slovakia 2011 - Technical Monuments – Historical Vehicles – Aero 30.

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Philatelic Adhesive Sheet Slovakia 2011 - Technical Monuments – Historical Vehicles – Aero 30.
Author: acad. painter Marián Komáček
Print run: 1,700 pcs
Issue number: 091 NL 501/11
Release date: 01.07.2011

Specification
The Prague aviation factory Aero paradoxically entered the automotive industry at a time when many other – even renowned – car manufacturers were involuntarily leaving it due to the onset of the economic crisis. Seeking an alternative production program to overcome stagnation, the company's management decided to bet on the production of a small people's car ENKA by designer Břetislav Novotný, which had already been presented to the public under the Aero 500 brand at the Prague Motor Show in 1929.
The small, simple, charming, and thanks to its two-stroke engine, extremely dynamic little vehicle quickly gained not only public favor but also numerous racers and travelers (B. Turek, F. A. Elstner, B. Holas, R. Navara), who participated in many races and successful expeditions to the most remote corners of the globe. Although the two + one-seater car eventually matured into a 4-seater, the single-cylinder became a twin-cylinder, and the engine capacity increased to 662, 750, and finally 1,000 cm3, by the mid-1930s, it could no longer keep up with the demands of increasingly demanding customers.
It was at this time that the sportily styled Aero 30 type emerged, with a dynamically designed body featuring a characteristic long engine hood (hence the nickname Czech Jaguar), powered by a one-liter twin-cylinder two-stroke engine with 30 hp, transmitted to the front wheels. In 1936, a more powerful Aero 50 type appeared, equipped with a two-liter engine with 50 hp and in an attractive four-seater body. Both models were a grateful object for the specialized bodywork company Sodomka, which created several exceptionally successful luxury bodywork variations based on them.
Aero cars were popular in Slovakia for their simplicity, durability, and favorable price, and regularly appeared and won at sporting events such as the 1,000 Miles of Czechoslovakia between Prague and Bratislava in 1933 and 1934. Aero 30 and 50 won laurels in their categories at the 500 km of Slovakia in 1937 and 1938. Attempts to revive the automotive tradition at the Aero factory after the war failed in 1947; the swan song was the forced production of small Škoda 150 trucks. After its end, the national enterprise focused only on aviation production, transferred from Vysočany to Vodochody from 1953.
Today, Aero cars are popular collector's items among Slovak vintage car enthusiasts, who preserve these cars as part of our cultural, technical, and historical heritage for the future.

source: pofis.sk