The Novo was a cyclecar designed by engineer Břetislav Novotný (1892–1965), a native of Hulín in Moravia. He graduated from a Brno secondary school in 1911, gained an aeronautical engineering title in Liège and continued his education in Paris. After the First World War he turned to automobile design, with a people's car in mind. Light, inexpensive cyclecars he saw in France drew his interest. Novotný began building his first…