thumb|The factory of Wichterle & Kovářik around 1900 Wichterle & Kovářik was a Czechoslovak machinery manufacturer based in Prostějov. They produced cars and trucks from 1925 to 1937.
thumb|The factory of Wichterle & Kovářik around 1900 Wichterle & Kovářik was a Czechoslovak machinery manufacturer based in Prostějov. They produced cars and trucks from 1925 to 1937.
== Development == František Wichterle founded a small factory in Prostějov, 1878 where he built agricultural vehicles. Dr František Kovařík owned a similar company in the same town who produced similar machinery. On 22 December 1918, the two companies merged into a joint-stock company Wichterle & Kovářik Ltd. After experimenting with different prototypes, including buying a chassis from Italian engineering company Ansaldo, mass production did not begin until 1925 (or 1927 according to some sources) with the model 7/28. Production of the cars were discontinued in 1937 and continued producing small trucks until 1940 after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia during World War 2.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).