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Karosa
Sign in to saveKarosa (, ) was a bus manufacturer in Vysoké Mýto in the Czech Republic. It was the biggest manufacturer of buses in Czechoslovakia. In 2007, its name was changed to Iveco Czech Republic, and now the company produces buses under the name Iveco Bus.
Key facts
- Company.logo
- Karosa.svg
- Company.image
- Vysoké Mýto, budova Irisbusu II.JPG
- Company.name
- Karosa a.s.
- Company.industry
- Manufacturing (buses, cars, machine tools)
- Company.traded_as
- Iveco Bus (since 2007)
- Company.foundation
- 1896
- Company.founder
- Josef Sodomka
- Company.location
- Vysoké Mýto, Czech Republic
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.owner
- Iveco
- Company.products
- Buses
- Company.defunct
- 1999
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- enterprise
- Official name
- KAROSA s.p.
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Founded by
- Sodomka
- Headquarters
- Vysoké Mýto
- Industry
- automotive industry
- Official website
- www.karosa.cz
- Image
- Vysoké Mýto, budova Irisbusu II.JPG
Show 5 more facts
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2007-00-00
- Commons category
- Karosa
- topic's main category
- Category:Karosa
- inception
- 1896-00-00
- replaces
- Sodomka
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Production of car bodies
- Bus production
- Bus models
- Present
- Gallery
- References
Karosa (, ) was a bus manufacturer in Vysoké Mýto in the Czech Republic. It was the biggest manufacturer of buses in Czechoslovakia. In 2007, its name was changed to Iveco Czech Republic, and now the company produces buses under the name Iveco Bus.
Since 2014, the Czech Republic has produced more buses per million inhabitants than any other country in the world. The Iveco Bus factory in Vysoké Mýto produces around 3,100 buses annually and is the largest manufacturer of buses in Europe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Karosa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.