Sodomka Body Shop – other production Part VIII, 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.