More than 300 companies, including 134 from abroad, were involved in constructing and equipping the more than 40 halls and other buildings.
The plant was now among the most modern automobile factories, also setting standards beyond the borders of the communist countries.
A new, 13-kilometre road network through the 80-hectare site, added ten kilometres of railway tracks, which led to a marshalling yard, and eleven kilometres overhead conveyor.
The four-door body of the 1000 MB consisted of 665 pressed parts and was built with 6,900 welding points.
ŠKODA used an aluminium alloy as well as a special die-casting process for the engine’s crankcase as well as the four-speed manual transmission, which was unique in Europe.
It was based on a patent registered by the Czech engineer Josef Polák in 1922.
At the same time, the intelligently designed crankcase weighing just 105 kilograms did not require holes to be drilled in it – threads in the castings simply needed to be cut.
This contributed to shorter production times and lower energy consumption.
