Metalex was founded in 1969 in Prague as a special-purpose facility of Svazarm, the central Czechoslovak motoring organization, through the efforts of Karel Jílek and Václav Bervid. The name came from its original specialty of blasting and metalizing frames. In 1990 it became MTX RS, s.r.o., with operations in Prague, Plzeň and Mělník under director Petr Bold. Over three decades the company produced more than 170 prototypes and many modified…