[alfa] Re: alfa-digest V9 #1072

[George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Hertzman states:

On Jan 11, 2004, at 8:58 AM, alfa-digest wrote:

> On the Skoda question, it appears that Skoda was an appreciably older 
> company than Alfa.
Indeed it is. Skoda was a munitions works, founded in the mid-19th 
century. In WWI, they supplied the Kaiser's forces with many large 
cannon and a number of small arms. I'm not 100% sure of this, but it 
seems to me that Skoda made the huge, railroad mounted
"Paris" guns with which the Germans bombarded Paris in 1917-18 from 
more than 30 miles away. As for their connection with Fiat, I believe 
that Skoda's involvement with the Czech-built Fiat was more in the line 
of a joint venture than a license, but memory is faulty and gets worse 
with age, so......

George Graves
'86 GTV-6
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