Prototype of the Smyk B30 passenger car

The Smyk B30 was designed in 1957 at the Automotive Industry Design Bureau in Warsaw by a team of engineers that included Karol Wójcicki, Janusz Zygadlewicz and Andrzej Zgliczyński. The vehicle was to carry two adults and two children. Its design was intended to enable cheap, mass production, and ensure ease of operation and low running costs. Twenty prototypes were built. The rush in which the project was carried out resulted in numerous design flaws and a high failure rate of the vehicle. Consequently, work on the Smyk B30 was discontinued in 1959. The vehicle was intended for production in the Szczecin Motorcycle Factory, but the decision was made to produce the Mikrus in Mielec instead. Manufacturer: Automotive Industry Design Bureau in Warsaw, 1957. Inv. No.: MIM169/II-8 Model prepared on the basis of photogrammetric and ToF measurements Licence: CC BY-NC-SA (CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike)