Smrtka was a small-car marque of the brothers Vladimír and Jaromír Smrtka, who worked in their own workshop in Prague-Střešovice. The marque was active from 1924 to 1926. The brothers experimented with an unusual drive in which an axially sliding rod with a pawl on its end moved a ratchet on the wheel shaft. It was popularly known as the "šťouchadlo". They built a cyclecar and later a small open…
