Towing car Z and U Škoda model 20, Josef Bouša
The monograph is dedicated to the heavy wheeled tractors Škoda type Z and Škoda type U, which served in the Czechoslovak army in the 1920s and 1930s. The publication provides the most comprehensive and detailed view of the history of these machines to date and its scope significantly surpasses all previously published works on this topic.
ŠKODA – promotion abroad, Martin Kupec
The book Škoda – promotion abroad, 1945-2025 was created on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the Škoda Auto automobile company. This book is dedicated to the promotion and sales of Škoda cars at foreign branches and affiliates around the world (including the Czech Republic and Slovakia) from 1945 to the present day. Thanks to the book, the reader has the opportunity to get acquainted with completely unknown or little-known Škoda brochures and posters, which were prepared mainly by foreign importers themselves and partly by PZO Motokov. In addition, the reader will learn how printed advertising was done then and today. The book is published with the official support of Škoda Auto as, Volkswagen Financial Services and the Statutory City of Mladá Boleslav in a print run of 3,000 copies, and is bilingual – in Czech and English (both language translations in one book).
Published by Moto Public, hardcover, format 21 x 27 cm, 472 pages.
IBAN: 978-80-909156-4-0
The legendary Favorit and his siblings, Jan Tuček
The book is primarily dedicated to the Favorit – the first production car from the Škoda brand with front-wheel drive, which the Mladá Boleslav-based carmaker developed in close cooperation with the Italian bodywork company Bertone and the Porsche development center. It was presented to the public in September 1987 at the engineering fair in Brno.
The publication recalls its somewhat complicated origin and its role in the process of the modern emancipation of the Mladá Boleslav car manufacturer, when it became the fourth brand of the Volkswagen Group in April 1991. It clearly maps the changes that the Škoda Favorit, Forman and Pick-up cars underwent during their active careers from 1987 to 1995, and recalls the diverse range of their variants and projects that did not make it into production.
Motorsport enthusiasts will be delighted by the overview of activities with modified Škoda Favorit cars in car competitions, circuit races and hillclimbs. The text containing technical data of individual models and an overview of production and export is accompanied by 430 archive photographs, many of which have not been published before.
Mototechna 2 – Domestic and imported passenger vehicles on posters and brochures 1949-1990, Martin Kupec
The second part of the book on the history of MOTOTECHNA, our former monopoly car dealer, brings completely new visual content. Once again, you will see that the promotion of MOTOTECHNA and foreign car manufacturers, printed in Czech for our market until 1990, was varied and very creative. The book captures other interesting posters and brochures of this era, supplemented with technical data, sales prices and the history of specific vehicles. The book, which has 32 chapters, also includes the previously unexplored topic of passenger car sales in our then neighbors in the GDR, Poland and Hungary. A special bonus is information about what our famous singers, actors and athletes drove at the time. With its scope and processing, the publication aims to address in this form all fans of cars that not so long ago were commonly on our roads and were part of our lives.
Tatra 80. Three lives of the famous Schicht convertible, Pavel Kasík
The publication is dedicated to the remarkable fate of the twelve-cylinder sports convertible Tatra 80 purchased in 1931 by the prominent industrialist Dr. Heinrich Schicht. It documents the history of the car, starting from its trade fair presentation through the repeated threat of extinction to the demanding reconstruction, after which it symbolically set off to its original locations in Ústí nad Labem and Prague. The author of the richly illustrated book is the leading internationally recognized expert on historical Tatra vehicles, Ing. arch. Pavel Kasík.
ENG: This publication deals with the remarkable history of the twelve-cylinder sports cabriolet Tatra 80 which was purchased by the prominent industrialist Dr. Heinrich Schicht in 1931. The history is documented from the car's first presentation at the Trade Fair Palace, through the repeated threats of its vanishing, to the demanding renovation after which it took a symbolic journey to locations of its original use: Ústí nad Labem and Prague. This richly illustrated book was written and compiled by Ing. arch. Pavel Kasík, a leading internationally-recognized expert on historic Tatra vehicles.
The First Women Behind the Wheel. Women's Motoring at the Beginning of the 20th Century, Michaela Žáková
The publication deals with the relationship between women and cars in the so-called pioneering period of motoring (until 1918). In a total of five chapters, it deals with both the very beginnings of women's motoring before 1900, as well as specific forms of car use and the roots of the phenomenon of women as bad drivers that persists to this day. The book also outlines the difficult beginnings of women's motoring and describes the pitfalls of contemporary motoring fashion. The final chapter deals with the role of women in promoting car brands.
Our Zetky. 100 years of the first car of Československá zbrojovka Brno, as, Mgr. Sylvie Zouharová Dyková
TATRA 815 – a legend on posters and brochures, 1983-2024, Martin Kupec
Did you know that the TATRA 815 had superstructures for laying railway tracks, building bridges or handling scrap metal? All this and much more will be covered in a new book entitled: "TATRA 815 - a legend on posters and in brochures, 1983-2024", authored by publicist Martin Kupec. The book will feature, from his collections and the collections of his fellow collectors, brochures and posters of the original T 815, gradually modernized versions of the T 815-2, TERRN°1, TERRA, or variants such as the T 815-6 or JAMAL up to the T 815-7 FORCE. It will also include posters and brochures for the Paris Dakar, Tatra expeditions around the world and, in particular, various superstructures produced by other manufacturers, both existing and now defunct. The development of advertising will be supplemented with technical data, information on exports and other interesting facts. The introductory pages of a total of 17 chapters will also feature additional drawings of vehicles by the artist Ing. Arch. Jan Hlavín. The expert advisor is Ing. Milan Olšanský, a TATRA TRUCKS employee.
Cars of our presidents 1918-2024, Jan Tuček
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.
Cars in Czechoslovakia 1945-1990. Domestic and imported passenger cars, Jan Tuček
The book recalls more than 150 car models that were sold in Czechoslovakia between 1945 and 1990. Passenger cars of three dozen different brands came from domestic production, but also from imports, whether from Eastern or Western Europe, and exceptionally from Japan and South Korea. The car descriptions are illustrated by 450 mostly color photographs and drawings.
From copper mold to automobile. The story of the Liberec factory Ch. Linser, Jan Mohr
The book will introduce you to the history of the Liberec engineering factory Ch. Linser, which at the beginning of the 20th century was the first in Austria-Hungary to produce a car – a voiturette with a four-cylinder engine. The production of motorcycles and cars lasted only a short time in the company, but it continued to cooperate with a number of automotive companies and after the war the factory became a foundry of the LIAZ company.
Paintings – Václav Zapadlík
A book publication of 100 full-color pages, which captures vintage car racing from 1900 to the present day, the publication contains very little-known and previously unpublished drawings by the master, it is oriented in landscape format in A4 format, a black glossy laminated soft cover was used as the cover
Cars – Václav Zapadlík
A paperback book publication with 160 full-color pages, which discusses the master's studies of veteran cars from the beginnings of world motoring until 1950. The publication contains very little-known and previously unpublished drawings by the master, is oriented in landscape format in A4 format, and a silver glossy laminated softcover was used as the cover.
Škoda Motorsport – competition and racing cars on posters and in brochures, 1945-2023, Michal Velebný, Martin Kupec
The book Škoda Motorsport is dedicated to the colorful world of Škoda competition and racing cars. It maps the history and present of these cars through printed advertising - period posters, brochures and sports event programs. It can appeal to all those interested in motorsport of the post-war era. The larger part of the book consists of rally cars, a smaller part is dedicated to circuit specials. It will remind the reader of the Škoda and Bohemia Rally, as well as other important competition events that have maintained their existence to this day, such as the Barum Rally, the Valašská Rally, the Český Krumlov Rally or the Tatry Rally.
Published by Moto Public, hardcover, format 21 x 27 cm, 330 pages.
IBAN: 978-80-908402-5-6
Tatra – Passenger Cars on Posters and Brochures 1945-1999, Martin Kupec
The Tatra limousines, produced between 1945 and 1999, had a special fate. Although they were always elegant cars with a unique technical concept, they carried a certain stigma with them. This was due to their almost exclusive purpose for a narrowly selected circle, especially political prominent people of the time. Even though these cars were not primarily sold on the regular market, their printed promotion in the form of brochures and posters was quite extensive. This resulted in many unique materials for domestic and foreign customers. And almost all of them have been concentrated in this book for the first time. A novelty in the publication this time is a total of 21 drawings, mainly of cars, by the artist Jan Hlavín, which introduce individual chapters and enrich the book artistically.
Published by Moto Public, hardcover, format 21 x 27 cm, 296 pages.
IBAN: 978-80-908402-6-3
The legendary Škoda 105/120 and its siblings, Jan Tuček
GRADA Publishing
Hardcover, format 21 × 25 cm, 160 pages
At the end of November 2022, the Prague-based Grada Publishing published a new book, "The Legendary Škoda 105/120 and its Siblings", authored by Motor Journal's regular collaborator Jan Tuček. The publication is dedicated to the last generation of Škoda cars with a rear engine, the Š 105/120/130 model series, the production of which exceeded two million cars between 1976 and 1990. It recalls the four-door sedans and the two-door coupes Garde and Rapid, their development, production and gradual modernization. There is a detailed overview of the production of these cars in individual years. The book also maps a diverse range of now almost forgotten variants and prototypes of various concepts built on the basis of the Š 742 and Š 743 cars in Mladá Boleslav, Kvasiny and Bratislava. Separate chapters are devoted to the conversions of Rapid coupés into convertibles in Germany, Great Britain, Denmark, Canada and in the Czech Republic, as well as to the sports use of cars of this series. 352 illustrations (photographs, brochures, drawings and transparent drawings), of which 226 are in color
Škoda Auto – 100 years of automobile history
A brief history of the Škoda car company, published on the occasion of 100 years of car production.
Laurels with the scent of gasoline. Interwar automobile sport, Petr Kožíšek
Published by NTM Prague
Softcover, format 21 x 26 cm, 166 pages
The author of the exhibition opening in October 2021 has also prepared a clear catalogue of events, sporting events, the most famous types of cars, trophies, as well as personalities who significantly contributed to the extraordinary development of motor sports in Czechoslovakia in the interwar period. The exhibition at the Technical Museum can be visited until May 1, 2022, you will see every car on display and the details of the highly artistic trophies from close range, but the catalogue will remind you of the pleasant atmosphere for a long time to come.
Cars and motorcycles with Wankel engines, Michael Květoň
The publication presents the history of the then new design of the internal combustion engine and the life of its creator, Felix Wankel. The engine was presented to the professional public in a practically usable form in 1960. The world was amazed and at first glance it seemed that a completely new era of the internal combustion engine was beginning. Car manufacturers and other internal combustion engine manufacturers feverishly bought licenses and began working on their own development of the Wankel engine. However, with increasing problems, they gradually dropped out, until only Mazda from Japan remained, which produced cars with the Wankel engine until 2012. However, the Wankel engine has not yet said its last word.
Sodomka Body Shop – other production Part VIII, Martin Štěpán
As part of the systematic processing of sources on the famous Vysoké Mýto body shop of Josef Sodomka, another, already VIII. volume of the history of production in Vysoké Mýto is coming to the book market. The monograph describes the production of carriages, sleighs, children's carts, a highway, a scooter and especially many types of towing vehicles, including residential ones. More than 400 period photographs, part of the custom book, copies of design drawings, technical documentation and other period documents form the essential content of the publication, which should be added to the previous works.
L&K – ŠKODA, Part II – The Flight of the Winged Arrow
author: Jan Králík and Petr Kožíšek
The best book about L&K and Škoda cars (ENGLISH)
L&K – ŠKODA, Part I – Upward Path 1895-1945
author: Jan Králík and Petr Kožíšek
The best book about L&K and Škoda cars (ENGLISH)
Czechoslovak Body Builders, Part 1, Pardubice Region, Jiří Junek, Martin Štěpán
The Regional Museum in Vysoké Mýto has once again prepared a treat for all those interested in history, regardless of age group. They have published the first part of a new edition on Czechoslovak coachbuilders, which is dedicated to both well-known and forgotten coachbuilders in the territory of today's Pardubice Region on 208 pages. Coachbuilding was once very widespread and closely related to the development of motoring and automobile production. In contrast, today it is somewhat of a "memories" field, hidden somewhere in the bowels of robotized automobile factories. And that is why the authors of the museum in Vysoké Mýto decided to describe and document the production and history of Czechoslovak coachbuilders. The result of the work is the first part of a book that maps the history of eight coachbuilders. They managed to obtain a large amount of unique material, such as period photographs, plans and testimonies of eyewitnesses or family members. Thanks to them, the enthusiastic authors were able to depict not only the specifics of bodywork production, but also many economic and social aspects of the first half of the 1950s. First and foremost, however, they present readers with the stories of extremely interesting, hard-working and tenacious people who made their mark on Czechoslovak automotive history.
Škoda Auto – 100 years of Automotive History
author: Jan Králik
English language
L&K – Too bad. Teil I, – Jahre des Aufstiegs 1895-1945
Hardcover, A4 format, 423 pages, Czech language
L&K – Škoda. Part II, – Flight of the Winged Arrow 1945-2003
Hardcover, A4 format, 271 pages, Czech language
The legendary Škoda 100/110 and its siblings
GRADA Publishing
Hardcover, format 21 × 25 cm, 152 pages
ISBN: 978-80-247-3721-8
The Mercedes-Benz Phenomenon & Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia
In addition to a concise and readable history of the world-famous Mercedes-Benz brand, set in a broader cultural, economic and technological context, the publication brings attractively prepared biographies of seven key figures with roots in the Czech environment, who significantly advanced the development of the Stuttgart icon and, with it, global motoring. A separate chapter is dedicated to the oldest brand club on the European continent, founded in Czechoslovakia in 1963. The authors demonstrate the development of production over more than a hundred years using the example of three dozen selected cars from the largest state and private collection in the Czech Republic. Given the breadth of scope, depth and attractiveness of the treatment, the book has the potential to appeal to readers at home and abroad. The publication is published with the support of the exclusive importer Mercedes-Benz Czech Republic.
TATRA 813: history, tactical-technical data, modifications, Jiří Frýba
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.
1000 Czechoslovak mils 1933, 1934, 1935, Petr Kožíšek
To give a concise overview of the extensive content, it is possible to write that the representative publication captures the author's dedication to the specific discipline of automobile racing, held with various variations up to the present day. The intention of the first year of the competition, which began to be prepared in the Autoklub na Opletalová in February 1933, was to promote the domestic automobile industry affected by the economic crisis. The description of the three pre-war years takes up two-thirds of the publication's content. Some of the original photographs of the competition cars were stored in the archives of the Technical Museum, photos of the prototypes were discovered quite by chance in an unused archive, another series of photographs were borrowed from family albums of generations that know the direct participants only from preserved oral memories. Details of the individual years are presented by copies of the period press. Several original photographs show factory cars that never participated in any other races or competitions; after the end of the first year of the "miles", they were destroyed by the manufacturer - they did not live up to expectations. The following pages describe the commemorative years starting in 1970, when there were already enough enthusiastic owners of historic vehicles across the country. The last part contains the lists of starters and the results tables of the pre-war years.
The Road to Favorit, Jan Králík
The author knew more than thirty-three years ago that the long and, above all, thorny path of development and production of the Favorit passenger car was worth carefully documenting. He had to reject the ideas of that time, he waited and waited! Developing anything new while trying to comply with the extensive tangle of many restrictions and prohibitions resulting from completely meaningless regulations was completely impossible during the years of normalization. Even though the original idea to produce a new type of passenger car within the framework of the Common Market came from the highest party positions. But the design tendencies of world car manufacturers indicated significantly different solutions from the originally intended ones. The gradual development, sometimes even illegal, was taken up by the administrative people in Mladá Boleslav. The amount of work with development and then with the preparation of production was unimaginable, but the people were enthusiastic. The most energy and time was taken up by the battles with the „windmills“ – at that time in the form of the state apparatus. When the Favorit was put into production, the leaders were melting in superlatives. Just like Ing. Andrej Barčák, then director of the PZO Motokov business group: "The Favorit was a groundbreaking project for Škoda. Škoda designed and then produced a car comparable to their European competition under significantly worse conditions. At the beginning, there were just a lot of restrictions, nothing was approved, big risks were taken, but Škoda had no reason to be ashamed of the result."„
Published by Motor Public, hardcover with dust jacket, format 22.5 x 21.5 cm, 118 pages
ISBN 978-80-906693-1-4.
Cars of the First Republic 1918 – 1938, Jan Tuček
A representative publication with perfectly crafted graphics prepared by a renowned author. The content consists of descriptions of passenger cars manufactured in Czechoslovakia between 1918 and 1938, their basic technical data. In addition to cars from large factories (Praga, Škoda, Tatra), cars from smaller manufacturers (Aero, Jawa, Walter, Wikov, Z) are also presented, as well as cars from small brands (Disk, Enka, Gatter, Isis, Stelka, Trimobil ...) - a total of 33 of the most important brands. In each chapter, the reader will find sales statistics in individual years, period prices and other technical information. A total of 600 exclusively period photographs are used in the chapters of individual production brands. The last chapter contains 52 copies of period brochures of the listed car manufacturers. The new book will be an ornament to the library, a source of much new information, a pleasure for the reader and a joy for the owner ...
The history of Škoda cars from 1905 to the present, Jiří Dufek, Jan Králík
A selection of the most famous cars produced in Mladá Boleslav. The technical development of cars is evident in the individual types from the first Laurinka to the present. Each model is presented in a detailed technical transparency by Jiří Dufek, supplemented by other technical drawings or examples of drawing documentation. The profile of each of the cars on display is illustrated in detail by color and black-and-white photographs from the archives of the authors and the car manufacturer. A large amount of visual material is connected by interesting texts by Jan Králík about the development of individual models, their production and sporting successes, and it also introduces several personalities from the many who have contributed to the success or fame of Mladá Boleslav cars. The narrative color book will delight anyone who is at least a little interested in cars and will certainly appeal to die-hard fans of Škoda cars.
Tatra 805: history, tactical-technical data, modifications, Jiří Frýba
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.
The legendary Skoda 1000 MB
For readers interested in the history of motoring, a book about the development, preparation and mass production of the Czech passenger car has been prepared on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Škoda 1000 MB. The first part contains a brief recapitulation of the post-war predecessors from 1946 to 1964. A number of previously unpublished photographs will present prototypes and serial "thousands". The content offers high-quality and verified information about technical parameters, interesting facts from production, the number of units produced for the domestic and foreign markets, and sporting successes.
Amphibious cars: history, technology, classification, modifications, Ivan Mackerle
The automobile has always belonged on the road. From the very beginning, when it came into practical use, there were also daredevils who, after modifications, tried to conquer water on their own. The publication is a guide with illustrations, but also an encyclopedia of amphibious vehicles. It maps the area of military, off-road and passenger vehicles capable of overcoming watercourses under their own power. This part of automotive history and the present has not yet been processed on the domestic book market. The content explains the theoretical foundations of vehicle movement in water, through the history of the emergence of amphibians to the technical parameters of military, off-road and passenger amphibious vehicles from the pre-war period to the present. The authors also recall remarkable amateur creations and expeditions. Recommended reading for adventurous natures, but perhaps also a non-standard topic for planning a vacation for next year.