Centaur was a small car maker in Rokycany, run by Josef Šimáně (1887–1958) from a family workshop in an extension of his house. The car was designed by engineer Otto Smékal of Město Touškov and built in 1931 and 1932. It was the second front-wheel-drive car made in the country. The company was recorded as having collapsed in November 1932, and the building that housed it was sold at an…