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Special chapter: A Century of the Czech Automobile. Drawings by Jiránek, Renčín, Barták, Holý.
Year of publication: 1987
Publisher: SNTL
Binding: glued
Format: 160 x 230 mm
Number of pages: 192
Condition: good
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Special chapter: A Century of the Czech Automobile. Drawings by Jiránek, Renčín, Barták, Holý.
Year of publication: 1987
Publisher: SNTL
Binding: glued
Format: 160 x 230 mm
Number of pages: 192
Condition: good
| Weight | 0,263 kg |
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Škoda, Tatra, Trabant, Wartburg, Polski Fiat, Dacia, Oltcit, Moskvich, Lada, Volga and other brands were an integral part of the pre-November era. Sometimes we turned our noses up at them and longed for something better. However, most of us had no choice. Today we can laugh about it, but we should not forget. Not only about that time, but also about the cars we drove back then.

author: Jiří Mitáček

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 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.

author: Dr. Ing. I. Kučera

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.

author: Pavel Bek, Petr Kožíšek, Jan Králík, Arnošt Nezměskal, Michal Plavec

author: Pavel Benes
illustration: Theodor Rotrekl
