18 September 2001 by Kees Smit Today I heard that Wolfgang Schmarbeck (1928) passed away about a month ago. He was a well known automotive journalist in Germany as well as editor of the series of booklets “Jetzt helfe ich mir selbst” He wrote several books on classic Peugeots, his last book on Bugatti [...]
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2001
Ledwinka biographer Wolfgang Schmarbeck passes away
December 31st, 2001
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TRD website shows more photos of their August Lemgo meeting
December 31st, 2001
25 September 2001 More pictures from Lemgo
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DUTCH TATRA JUBILEE MEETING
December 31st, 2001
26 September 2001 The Dutch Tatra Register celebrated its 15th birthday with a beautiful meeting in Groenlo in eastern Netherlands, just 10 km away from the German border. Both pre-war and post war Tatras including Holland’s sole T 613 gathered in the cosy small city of Groenlo, home of the famous Grolsch beer brewery. Most [...]
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9 more US Army T 815 pics
December 31st, 2001
30 September 2001
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THE STORY BEHIND THE U.S. T 815 and East Germany’s Nationale Volks Armee Tatra heritage
December 31st, 2001
by Bonn International Center of Conversion 1 October 2001 During the early months after reunification of both Germanies, the Bundeswehr laid primary emphasis on ensuring control over the NVA’s material heritage. Thousands of major weapons and thousands of tons of equipment were relocated and brought under a more centralized, easier-to-guard storage system. Preparations for the [...]
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Tatra production- and sale figures January to September 2001
December 31st, 2001
3 October 2001 (Tatra a.s) In the first three quarters of this year, the TATRA Company manufactured in total 1,017 heavy trucks, while the sales volume for the same period was recorded at 921 vehicles. In a comparable period – the first nine months of 2000 – the truck production was 1,165 items with [...]
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Moscow’s Andrei Bogomolov, webmaster of the well known Russian autogallery has added a T 92 page as well as a T 93 page to his site.
December 31st, 2001
15 October 2001 Have a look at: tatra92 page tatra93 page
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SALE OF TATRA TO SDC GETS GREEN LIGHT
December 31st, 2001
25 October 2001 (by CTK) The supervisory board of the state-run bail out agency Ceska konsolidacni agentura (CKA) today approved the sale of 91.61% of shares in truck maker Tatra Koprivnice to US company SDC International, the board’s Tomas Pav told CTK after the meeting today “However, the US firm doesn’t seem to [...]
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SDC International (OTCBB:SDCN) confirmed today that the Cabinet of the Czech Republic government has approved SDC’s purchase of a 92% stake in the truck manufacturing company Tatra, a.s. SDC said it hopes to close the transaction no later than by the end of December.
December 31st, 2001
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The Czech governmentapproves sale of TATRA, a.s., to US company SDC International
December 31st, 2001
8 November 2001 (Tatra) Yesterday the government of the Czech Republic approved sale of the 91,61% stake in TATRA, a.s., which had been held by the Ceska konsolidacni agentura (Czech Consolidation Agency, CKA) and the subsidiary of the Fond narodniho majetku (National Property Fund) the Kras Brno, to an American company SDC International, Inc. The [...]
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