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Author: Graham Robson
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An encyclopedia of the most beautiful cars from 1900 to the early 1980s. A series of beautiful illustrations by Ken Rush, Gordon Davies, James Leech and Terry Hadler.
Year of publication: 1982
Publisher: Galley Press
Binding: sewn in hardcover
Format: 225 x 315 mm
Number of pages: 248
Condition: excellent
| Weight | 1,205 kg |
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The only comprehensive publication on the development, production and individual versions of the Tatra 813 vehicle is compiled mainly from archival documents of the Central Military Archive/Military Historical Archive Prague. In the introduction, it introduces the reader to the means used to move artillery and very heavy loads after World War II. The main part of the book contains information on the development of the Tatra 813 tractor, on the production of prototypes and their testing, as well as on the design of semi-trailers required by the army. In the most extensive chapter, divided into several parts, you will find tactical and technical data on individual applications of the vehicle, which are supplemented by drawings and photographs of various parts of the vehicle. The basic type of the Tatra 813 8 × 8 tractor (Kolos) is described in the most detail, from which the entire unified series is based. For other versions, including civilian ones, mainly design changes are presented. The appendices contain not only descriptions of the tractor's semi-trailer equipment and the use of T 930 series engines in individual vehicles, but also color photographs of the T 813 vehicles and their successor, the T 815.
For more than a century, Czechoslovak and Czech presidents have been driving automobiles. This book attempts to map the diverse range of several hundred cars from two dozen domestic and foreign brands that have made a significant contribution to our history thanks to their users. In addition to well-known cars, it also commemorates some almost forgotten ones.
The book is new, unread, only the cover is slightly scratched.
The author, a native of Liberec, worked for forty-two years at Tatra – the longest at the Technical Museum. Deep personal ties to the manufacturing brand are evident on every page of the new publication. A total of 255 reproductions of paintings published over the past years, mainly in wall calendars, constitute just a fraction of the author's work. Some of the paintings used could be admired by visitors to several thematic exhibitions. The reader is presented with a parade of the most famous, but also forgotten types and versions from Kopřivnice. The conclusion is a contemporary parade of Tatra Trucks as production. To complete the archive of Tatra history, every library should have a new book.
Škoda, Tatra, Trabant, Wartburg, Polski Fiat, Dacia, Oltcit, Moskvich, Lada, Volga and other brands were an integral part of the pre-November era. Sometimes we turned our noses up at them and longed for something better. However, most of us had no choice. Today we can laugh about it, but we should not forget. Not only about that time, but also about the cars we drove back then.
Advertising leaflet for the first truck, produced by the Tatra car factory in Kopřivnice in 1898. Year of publication: Publisher: Tatra np Kopřivnice Binding: Format: 625 x 295 mm folded into thirds Number of pages: Condition: very good
author: Jiří Mitáček
author: Dr. Ing. I. Kučera
The Tatra 805 light truck was developed in the early 1950s – at a time when the whole of Europe was slowly recovering from the consequences of World War II. The first pages will acquaint readers with the then level of motorization of our army, which primarily initiated the need for a mobile 1.5-ton vehicle. In addition to the basic versions of the flatbed and box, other single-purpose superstructures were built on the existing chassis to perform specific army tasks. The comprehensive text will explain to readers what individual designations such as Šárka, Jarmila, Ezop, Mozek, Třinec and Neděle meant. The difficult-to-understand delimitations and transfers of the final assemblies of the T 805 between production plants are still evidence of „planned“ mistakes. Previously unpublished photographs, clearly arranged technical tables and drawings will remind witnesses of the „eight hundred and five“ from common army and civilian versions to unknown prototypes. The publication will help readers of younger generations understand technical possibilities in the context of the time.
