Motor Journal 2018/01

The cover page already promises interesting articles on the following pages. A handful of nails from the road - this is again a mosaic of events from the history of motoring, but also important points indirectly related. The following column You have the floor. has four contributions – an apology to readers, a photo from the Hradec Králové ring road from 1959, a plaque for the anniversary of Erwin Tragatsch and a reader's personal memory of JFKoch's lecture at the NTM. A full-page poster invites you to Kroměříž for Veterans Academy Ball, consider! The double-page spread of new books will serve to additionally enrich the specialized libraries in many families. Completely new information will be revealed by the double-page spread Trucks from Strašnice – a document about the production of cars with higher transport capacity in the early days of ČSAD. A treatise on automobiles Tract – a sports car manufacturer almost unknown in our region. A delightful read – six pages of sporting successes and the fates of manufacturers. Another six pages of text and a number of original photographs will transport the reader to the land of snow and ice. Through memories of the journey of Edmund Hillary's expedition, read Tractor to the South Pole. Read the memories, but above all the personal confession of one of our leading journalists, who completed the 10th year of the demanding competition, in the article Thirty years since the golden Dakar. Detailed introduction to the motorcycle design Ariel Square Four Mk. II, also mentioned in world history as the most remarkable four-cylinder four-stroke – the proven author has provided an excellently crafted text with illustrations. The motorcycles and cars of our dreams were on offer at the auction house Bonhams at New Bond Street, but just four days later the same auction house in the lobby Olympia in London exhibited cars, but also paintings such as TT Races 1928 by Frederick Gordon Crosby (article with reproductions and photo of Crosby in MJ 6/2017 p.24). Our auction house Sýpka offered other originals by the graphic artist and designer in the Topič salon in Prague Francis Kardus. The original poster design for the Škoda 1200 was sold at the starting price. BMW 326 convertible and Ludmila Bobkova, alias Lída Baarová, these are three pages of interesting connections. An "extra report" was provided at the time of the deadline„  Retro Classics Bavaria 2017 with photographs, the exhibition of this year's final exhibition of vintage cars in Nuremberg will be presented. Owners and friends of three-wheeled specials offer readers a rough balance of this season Velorexy in 2017. The authors will present sales successes and business failures, as well as forgotten models, on four pages with text and photographs. A walk through the Simca car museum.