Motor Journal 2025/11

Editorial: Tatra doesn't know its brother!
Miscellaneous news
1895 – first automobile race in the USA
Vladimir Popelar
Berlin Motor Show 1925
Antique Automobile Club of America
Henry Kottek
Unsafe at any speed
31st RAC Rally 1975
CAR, MOTORCYCLE, BIKE in art, serious and fun
Autumn VeteranTechna Brno
Kingdom of Soap Bubbles and Tatra 80
Tatras through the Alps to France
Mary Victor Bruce
Alexandre Darracq
Coventry–Constantinople 1905
Brno–Sobesice 2025
Vintage Show - Premier 500 OHV Supersport (1929)
Wheeled Expedition 2025, II.
Aguttes at the Autoworld museum
Calendar of events and advertising
Books

Traditionally, in the section Miscellaneous news It is mainly dedicated to November anniversaries with dates ending in 5. We commemorate personalities, races, car shows, news and new books.
On July 6, 1980, four Tatras and one Aero set off on a long journey to France from Hradec Králové and Prague to take part in the 11th Golden Eagle of historic car and motorcycle races, organized by the French club Ecurie corail (Coral Stable). It was a trip of the Hradec Králové Veteran Car Club, organized by the Autoturist travel agency.
On July 6, 1980, four Tatras and one Aero set off on a long journey to France from Hradec Králové and Prague to take part in the 11th Golden Eagle of historic car and motorcycle races, organized by the French club Ecurie corail (Coral Stable). It was a trip of the Hradec Králové Veteran Car Club, organized by the Autoturist travel agency.
On Wednesday, October 8, 1930, the headline „Mrs. Victor Bruce is safe“ appeared on the front page of several British newspapers. This is probably the best evidence of how well-known Mary Victor Bruce was at the time, as no further explanation was needed. In the 1920s and 1930s, Mary Bruce was as popular in England as a film star.
Alexandre Darracq – the man who was at the origin of car companies in France, England, Germany, Italy and Spain, a gifted engineer whose name was given to cars that won the biggest races of their time and set world speed records, actually had a reserved attitude towards cars. He didn’t even like driving a car himself and didn’t even have a driver’s license. It was simply a product that he knew how to make, sell and make some money from.
The largest Czechoslovak motorcycle manufacturer of the second half of the 1920s, Premier, a joint-stock company for the production of bicycles and machines Prague - Cheb, sold the two-stroke single-cylinder Liliput at the cheapest price. At the other end of the range and the design pinnacle of the brand, until the start of production of the oblique single-cylinder SSL, was the vertical air-cooled, twin-exhaust single-cylinder SSR - an OHV machine of the 500 cm3 displacement category called the Supersport.
From Thursday 9 October, potential buyers could view more than eighty cars at the Autoworld museum in Brussels, prepared for them by the French auction house Aguttes. The auction itself took place on Saturday afternoon. In the evening, 65 % bids were sold, but in many cases for less than expected.
Calendar of events, private and commercial advertising, that's the content of the last pages of this year's next issue Journal Engine.