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Hardcover, hardcover, format 21.5 × 30.5 cm, 464 pages
Published by Rokos Publishing House
Published by Rokos Publishing House
Ogar, the story of a forgotten brand, Tomáš Rokos
Original price was: 1 000,00 Kč.790,00 CZKCurrent price is: 790,00 Kč.
The author is a long-time supporter of the Ogar manufacturing brand. In addition to gradually acquiring detailed knowledge of all manufactured types, he carefully collected any available information from the period press, company brochures, photographs, manuals and spare parts catalogs for many years. The time has come and the fan of the non-existent motorcycle brand considered it appropriate to enrich the knowledge of supporters, open the memories of eyewitnesses, expand the offer on bookstore shelves, but also publicly boast of the results of purposeful activity. Reprints of period documents and photographs will bring closer the interests and production of first bicycles and then motorcycles of the Ogar brand.
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