- Tadeusz Tański
Tadeusz Tański (1892 - 1941) was a Polish automobile engineer and the designer of, among others, the first Polish serially-built automobile, the
CWS T-1 .Born
March 11 ,1892 inJanów Podlaski toCzesław Tański , one of pioneers of Polish aviation. Before the outbreak of the Great War, Tański moved toParis , where he studied engineering and specialised in airplane engines at the "Ecole d’Electricite Industriel de Paris". During the war he designed and constructed a number of engines for various military planes, as well as studied extensively on armoured vehicles at theL. Bordon company. Later he also worked as an engineer for theArmstrong–Whitworth company.In 1919 he returned to
Poland and started working for the Ministry of Military Affairs in the Automobile Section. During thePolish-Bolshevik War , in 1920 he constructed the first Polish armoured car, theFord FT-B , based onchassis of the famousFord T . Altogether 16 machines of this type were built, all of them used in front service.After the war he remained one of the engineers working for the Polish arms industry, most notably the
Centralne Warsztaty Samochodowe company. It was there in 1922 Tański designed, and later supervised the production of theCWS T-1 , the first Polish serially-built car. Until late thirties he remained one of the most notable Polish constructors and the designer of numerous cars, lorries andartillery tractor s.After the Polish Defensive War of 1939 and the outbreak of
World War II , Tański remained in German-occupied Poland. OnJuly 3 ,1940 , at the height of the so-calledAB Action , he was arrested by the Germans and sent to theAuschwitz concentration camp , where he was murdered onMarch 23 ,1941 .External links
* [http://www.autohistories.com/tanski/ Tadeusz Tanski and His Creations]
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