We pick up with the story of the Czech Tatra brand where we left off, at the end of WWII. After the defeat of Nazi Germany, Czechoslovakia became a communist state in 1948 – although Tatra was nationalized in 1946 – and Tatra was renamed Tatra Národní Podnik. Tatra continued to produce their pre-war models for a brief period (as well as heavy trucks, which by this point they had become well-known for.) Tatra began designing a clean-sheet model, to be called the (T600) Tatraplan.
