Motor Journal 2019/1

Motor Journal, the 1st issue of 2019, is published on Friday, January 4, 2019. The December issue has not yet been dispatched and the editor-in-chief has announced the deadline for this year's first issue. Once again, it is up to the readers to objectively assess the level of work of individual authors in terms of content, graphics, but also the value of new, previously unpublished information. The title page with a photo of a period ambulance and images below it inviting you to follow the content of the other pages - this is a thoughtful work of the graphic designer. The editorial, the photo Zašlé časy and the column of contents of this issue are a "prelude" to the following Nails from the road. Here, technical innovations in motor vehicles, ships and aeronautical machines, successful and doomed inventions, races and competitions with winners and injured, anniversaries, personalities of motor sports disciplines, but also political immorality are captured in encyclopedic form from all over the world. You have the floor. is a readers' column with a memory of a self-made fire engine and a short reminder from a reader from Frýdek-Místek about the use of the Manet motorcycle for road motorcycle racing. The double-page spread represents only a part of the offer of interesting book titles. Testing development vintage vehicles and their prices is the content of a two-page spread with a precise chronology of the gradual increase in fees. Readers will be interested Praga Lady ambulances, period photographs with rich text, it is a section of one of the chapters of the new book. Bucegi – a Romanian express with an unfairly bad reputation? – this is the content of an interesting monograph about a car that literally flew past eyewitnesses, who will remember it in photographs, copies of brochures, and in rich text. BTS Oldo, thank you! is a loose continuation of the previous topic - several enthusiasts near Třebíč built an autocross special with a Bucegi engine. Heavy commercial vehicles from Pilsen – we guarantee that everyone who reads the following pages will see chapters of history they had no idea about. A statue by the road at the very edge of the „Iron Curtain“ – is it Saint Christopher? A member of the editorial board prepared a monograph on automobile production for Veteránsalon Ashley – a revealing read! A Bugatti across the Sahara – what began in January 1929, readers will read on the following three pages. History of security – detailed development of protective equipment against the consequences of traffic accidents. Beautiful lines of curved fenders, resounding names of legendary types, accompanied by multi-digit financial amounts – these were December auctions in London. A brief introduction to geography and history are the opening lines for Motorcycle races at St. Wendelin's. When we peeked at the neighbors, a little more motorcycle history from our garden – Upice. Still advertising for buying and selling and on the back of the cover a copy of the poster for the weekend event in Brno – according to undisclosed information, representatives of the exhibition center and the organizers have already signed a contract.