After the company finished its first passenger car, named the Präsident, it focused on manufacturing a truck.

The First Truck represents the beginning of the long tradition of Tatra commercial vehicles.

The truck was a flatbed with covered loading area and with a top over the personnel compartment, which could seat two.

The vehicle has two, two cylinder flat 120 x 120 mm liquid cooled Benz engines (the same as the 1st Präsident passenger car), which are mounted under the frame behind the rear axle.

Another interesting detail is that both engines had vapour cooling - coolant fumes are led to the roof condenser and the water is recycled back into the coolant tanks placed in the vehicle rear, which lowers the water consumption.

[2] Unlike the Präsident, the first passenger car made by NW, the original of the First Truck has not survived.

The last source for the project was a description given by a Viennese editor named Adolf Schmal jnr., who described in a newspaper the truck he saw in Nesselsdorf in spring of 1899.