In the past it also made light artillery, cars, motorcycles, tractors and various tools, such as typewriters and early computers.

[2] The factory assembled German Gewehr 98 and Austrian Mannlicher M1895 rifles, but later began producing their own.

During the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, Zbrojovka Brno was renamed to Waffenwerke Brunn and produced weapons for the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS.

In the 1980s, the company refocused mainly on communication and computing technologies at the expense of weapons production and repair.

Zbrojovka Brno continues to make hunting rifles to this day as a subsidiary of Colt-CZ.

The first model was the Disk, which was a two-door light car with a four-cylinder, 598cc, 10 horsepower (7.5 kW) engine launched in 1924.

[4] This was succeeded in 1926 by the Z 18, which was a two-door sedan powered by a two-cylinder, 1005 cc engine producing 18 horsepower (13 kW).

[10] The Z 5 engine was modular with the Z 6: a four-cylinder version that displaced 1,470 cc (90 cu in) and produced 40 horsepower (30 kW).