Motor Journal 2025/10

Editorial: And autumn is here again
Miscellaneous news
Karl Rabe
1925 French Motorcycle Club Grand Prix
Speed races at Arpajon 1925
London Motor Show 1935
International Motor Show in Prague 1935
ČAMS motorcycle races at the exhibition grounds 1935
New Citroën DS19 (1955)
London–Prague on a BSA 1925/2025 motorcycle
Pavel Národa, eighty years old
Upcoming auctions Retro Garage
Motoclassic Wroclaw at Topacz Castle
Hradec Králové Rally – this year marks its 800th anniversary
Zbraslav–Jíloviště 2025
Solo Brescia 2025 from Beaune to Angoulême
Competitors' training camp in Pístovice
Record-breaking Sunbeam 1000 hp
Goodwood Revival 2025
Targa Florio 2025
Report on the visit to Motokov
Barr & Stroud slide valves
He dedicated his life to the Hungarian "chabayka" (Milan Jiroš)
Expedition Robot
Wheeled Expedition 2025, I.
Šumava 2025 Competition
Vintage Salon - Gordon‑Keeble GT
Bonhams at the Goodwood Revival
Brightwells Online Auction
DAF Museum Eindhoven
Calendar of events and advertising
Books

Traditionally, in the section Miscellaneous news It is mainly dedicated to round October anniversaries with dates ending in 5. We commemorate personalities, races, car shows, news and new books.
The following report from a business trip was written 55 years ago by Mr. Alois Holzer, production director of the company Motor Industries International, which assembled Škoda cars from imported parts in New Zealand. The report was preserved in the archive of Mr. Josef Kaplan Jr., whose father trained local dealers and started assembling Škoda 100 cars in New Zealand. He was nicknamed „Mr. Škoda“ by local mechanics. František Kopečný, an employee of Motokov mentioned several times in the text, was in charge of Australia and New Zealand in this foreign trade company.
While acquiring image material for the book "Our Motorcycle Import", I obtained a scan of a period photograph of a female rider on a remarkable motorcycle with a Prague license plate from the system used after 1932. It is a frame with a fork from an English OEC motorcycle from the second half of the 1920s, fitted with a very unusual four-stroke engine. Barr & Stroud slide valve motor 500 cm3. No contemporary literature or contemporary Czech advertising by the importer states that OEC also used B & S engines. Likewise, there is no mention in the preserved part of the B & S archive of engine deliveries to OEC.
In September 2012, articulated buses were last operated in regular service in the Czech Republic. Ikarus type buses 280. These legendary blue line buses and, conversely, red city buses, which passengers sometimes referred to in slang as "čabajky" or "accordions", have been adding color to a number of Czech and Slovak cities and regions for many years.
Radiator mascots or emblems are usually intended to indicate the power and speed of a particular car brand. Car manufacturer Gordon-Keeble He had a sense of humor, so he placed a turtle on the front of his car, but a V8 under the hood.
Calendar of events, private and commercial advertising, that's the content of the last pages of this year's next issue Journal Engine.