2. OVERVIEW
LIAZ (LIberecké Automobilové Závody – Liberec Automobil Works) is a defunct
Czechoslovak and Czech truck manufacturer.
The company was founded in 1951 by the then-Czechoslovak government as a
subsidiary of Škoda.
It became independent of Škoda in 1953, though it kept the name Škoda LIAZ
until 1984.
The company’s main plants were in Rýnovice, Mnichovo Hradiště, and Liberec;
other factories were later opened in Mělník, Zvolen, Veľký Krtíš, Přerov, and
Holýšov.
It was the largest Czechoslovak truck manufacturer in the 1970s.
Production ended in 2003.
LIAZ logo
4. TRUCKS
Škoda 706 R
Škoda 706 RT
RT
100
200
300
S
FZ
400 Xena
400 Fox
TEDOM trucks bought the Engine Plant of LIAZ trucks; it also acquired all the technical data and drawings, and is now
selling LIAZ Concept Trucks under the brand of FOX. Jablonec nad Nisou was mostly manufacturing diesel engines in the
late nineties; those diesel engines were constructed and evaluated at the industrial estate.
The engine-line production essentially tested every single engine by running it and assembling numerous parameters
about it. Every n-th engine was sent to disassembly to examine any engine acceptances. The testing rigs were called
Brzda (“brake”), where the engine was linked to gas, exhaust extraction piping, and electronic probes.
The engineering property of LIAZ has also been used for manufacturing of steam which is regularly used to warm housing
estates. This vastly compelled steam is piped to smaller convertor locations round the town of Jablonec nad Nisou. In the
convertor locations, the pressure is diminished and used for warming blocks of apartments.
TEDOM factory, Třebíč
