Tatra 138

The Tatra 138 truck was built in 1959 and was built from 1961 at Tatra in Kopřivnice in series. Prototypes existed in 1957. It was developed from the smaller Tatra 137.

Through the Tatra 138 Tatra, the previous model was replaced 111. The " Tatra " concept with air-cooled diesel engine, central tube frame, four-wheel drive and swing axles were retained. From Tatra 137 the rounded bonnet and the rounded cab and the newly developed engine T 928, a V8 diesel with 11,762 cm3 and 180 hp were acquired ( 132.4 kW). The engine was oscillating elastically suspended and connected to the transmission via a cardan shaft. Was also taken over by the Tatra 137, the torsion bar suspension on the front axle. At the rear, however, semi-elliptic leaf springs were used.

By 1972, the Tatra 138 total 48 222 copies were produced in different versions. His successor was the Tatra 148 Apart from the two-axle tractor Tatra 138 4x4 NT you made ​​the 138er exclusively as a three-axle 6x6. He has been exported to about 40 countries. A typical design of the 138ers was the three-way tipper Tatra 138 S3 or the version with more payload, Tatra 138 S3M.