Steyr was an Austrian company best known for building precision firearms but in the early 20th century they became involved in producing automobiles. The Type 55 arrived in 1938 as a replacement for the earlier Type 50. It was a bit longer and had a large sliding roof. It was powered by a water cooled horizontally opposed four cylinder engine displacing 1158cc and producing 25hp. The engine was far forward, it had a four speed transmission and rear wheel drive. There were 7,800 Type 55 cars built before WWII when the companies efforts returned to arms production. The Type 55 never returned to production after the war.
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