In Koprivnice 16. 3. 2006 Dear friends of Tatra and museums in Koprivnice, it is my obligation to inform you, that I decided to leave Technical museum Tatra in Koprivnice from 31.3.2006. My possition will be covered by Mr. Radim Z
MARTIN JANIK LEAVES TATRA MUSEUM
Reflections of Prague:
Journeys Through the 20th Century Ivan Margolius ISBN: 0-470-02219-1 Hardcover 320 pages April 2006 http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470022191.html
T 603 Team looking for partners!
Just before the start of the 2006 season 2006 the Tatra T 603 Team wants to greet all Tatra friends all over the world and ask them to support them. The T 603 team, that runs both the Ecorra T 700 and the historic T 603 B5 are offering advertising space on their cars, becoming [...]
A website as a tribute to Alois Mark
www.t603-marathon.wz.cz The Stramberk race, organised as a classic race in 2005 for the first time, will be held in 2006 as well! 19-20 August! http://www.zavodypodtrubou.site.cz/ ESSEN CLASSIC MOTOR SHOW Last weekend’s Essen Motor Show showed three Tatra streamliners and Evzren Majoros well known T 80. The former Jack Braam Ruben’s T 77 made a surprise [...]
TATRA FOR SALE (continued)
News about the sale of Tatra keeps pouring in. An overview: It looks like Terex will split up Tatra to get maximum profit. http://www.tatra.cz/en/obchod_en_soubory/frame.htm Isn’t this the standard covert method for the Americans to sell off an asset to get the maximum profit? The sooner Terex goes the better but braking up the elements of [...]
SPRING MEETING TRN:
INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE, CRASHED WW2 PLANES, FLOWERFIELDS, SLOVAK TV & TATRA Pix by Kees S, Peter V More Peter V pix at http://www.flickr.com/photos/42057291@N00/sets/72057594117742171/ Lorries offered by Tatra comply with military’s demand – Tatra Ostrava- April 26th. The lorries that the Tatra car maker has offered to supply to the Czech military meet the military’s demands, [...]
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Hampton Wayt sold the former Gary Cullen’s T87 to an art museum (not a car museum) in the USA!
As far as we know this is already the second T 87 sold to an art museum, the first one being the one sold to the Neue Sammlung in Munich. (Gary Cullen) http://www.artsmia.org/viewer/detail.php?v=12&id=98653 http://www.die-neue-sammlung.de/z/muenchen/sam/fahrzeug/b0001_5_de.htm Nashville collector has a thing for Czech cars http://www.praguemonitor.com/ctk/?story_id=w37058i20060720;story=Nashville-collector-has-a-thing-for-Czech-cars
TEREX & TATRA LATEST
July 27th “As we mentioned previously, we view the Tatra commercial and military truck business as a non-core operation and have been reviewing our alternatives with respect to this business. At this time, we have reached an agreement to sell Tatra to a group of private equity investors, including both American and Czech investors who [...]
TRD Jahrestreffen 2006
Kupferzell/Eschenbach http://www.tatra-register.de/Kupferzell%202006/bilderbuch9.htm