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Origins
The Lady of 1935 dressed Praga's smaller-car engineering in the decade's fashion: gently streamlined bodywork over a backbone-influenced chassis with independent suspension, powered by a modest four — a thoroughly modern package aimed at the Czechoslovak middle class and styled with a grace the name promised. It sold respectably at home and in export niches until the occupation redirected the works entirely to German war production. The Lady was the last flowering of Praga's passenger-car imagination; post-war nationalisation assigned the company trucks, and the 1946 decision to concentrate car-making elsewhere ended the line for good. Survivors are cherished in Czech collections as emblems of the republic's confident interwar industry — when Prague built aircraft, machine tools and pretty little cars with equal fluency.
Praga Lady · Jan Polák · CC BY-SA 3.0
