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First Presov ambulance?

December 31st, 2012
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Prvé sanitky v Prešove ?

Keď som mal asi 17 rokov, našiel som kdesi staršie fotografie sanitiek s nápisom Prešov na dverách. Fotografie som odložil a po čase na ne zabudol. Pripomenula mi ich výstava v SNG minulý rok- Nové Slovensko 1918- 1949, zrod moderného životného štýlu.
Zdalo sa mi, že na výstavu by sa tie fotografie hodili [...]

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Loprais on his way to the Dakar

December 30th, 2012
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Our almost an year long period of preparation to the hardest worlds competition, Dakar 2013, is finally ending. The rally is hosted again in the South America and starts on 5th January, 2013, in the capital city of Peru. So it is the first time, the rally begins in the driest [...]

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Travellers’surprise: Saigon Tatra

December 29th, 2012
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Week One Saigon
Away I flew; up the coast of BC, over Anchorage (just like last year), and then across the Bering Strait and down across Russian, Korea, past Japan and finally, finally landing at Beijing Capital International Airport’s Terminal 3, the second largest air terminal in the world (Dubai has the largest) and third largest [...]

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中欧汽车鼻祖 捷克Tatra“太拖拉”轿车 (Tatra history in Chinese)

December 28th, 2012
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Here is a Tatra history in Chinese.  Most accompanying photos are familiar with us, but others new.
如果不是第一,那么第二和第三就没有意义吗?事实并不完全如此。太拖拉,一个因工地重卡而被已经不年轻的我们有所耳闻的名字,在军事迷印象里,这也是一个强悍的军用卡车制造商。殊不知,太拖拉的乘用车也曾闻名于汽车工业。世界上第三个汽车制造者,曾经波尔舍先生模仿的对象,与甲壳虫有着不解渊源的品牌。它的背后有许许多多吸引人的故事和秘密,而乘用车这一部分则先是让人惊喜,后又无奈惋惜。
“Tatra”太拖拉诞生于1850年,最初名为Schustala & Co.,后更名为Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriksgesellschaft,马车制造商出身,1897年,他们制造出了中欧第一台汽车,也是世界上第一批汽车当中的一台——“Prasident”。1918公司更名Koprivnická vozovka a.s.,1919年,Tatra成为公司最终名称,它就源于坐落在太拖拉不远处的Tatra山脉。
太拖拉的历史着实悠久,它是世界上仅次于戴姆勒和标致之后的第三个汽车生产商。二次大战期间,太拖拉主要以生产卡车以及坦克引擎为主。而它的民用车业务则在1999年停止,但它仍持续保持着自始以来最擅长的卡车业务,包括4×4、6×6、8×8、10×10甚至12×12卡车。太拖拉对于许多人来说,知名度源于传奇捷克卡车车手Karel Loprais,Karel于1988-2001期间曾驾驶太拖拉815六次赢在世界上最艰难的汽车比赛——达喀尔拉力赛中夺得冠军,他也成为了达喀尔历史上最为大的车手之一。
太拖拉的轿车制造史并不比戴姆勒和标致晚多少。公司早在1850年便开始了马车生产业务,1891年,创始人Ignác Sustala又开展了轨道车厢的生产工作,同时Roeslerstamm作为技术总监。创始人Sustala过世后,Roeslerstamm接管了公司运营并购买了一台奔驰汽车。正是在奔驰汽车的启发下,他们也创造了自己的第一辆汽车——Prasident,它亮相于1897年的维也纳。
1900年,由奥地利著名设计师Hans Ledwinka完全独立设计的车型Type A诞生,采用后置2714cc引擎,极速40km/h,共生产了22台。随后采用中置引擎的Type B 1902年生产。Ledwinka在此之后经历了离开与回归,并
Conitinue at: http://um.auto.sina.com.cn/news/2012-11-29/01203047.shtml

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T 77 restoration near Plzen

December 26th, 2012
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T 600, T 603-1 and T 603-2 synthetic spare parts

December 26th, 2012
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Merry Christmas to all

December 24th, 2012
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Dakar 2013 Preview

December 24th, 2012
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As the clear winner of Dakar 2012, Gerard De Rooy has embraced the challenge of confirming the domination of Iveco trucks. The Dutch team will have to manage the new generation of Kamaz pilots, which still has little experience of major events.
After periods of optimism, progress, disappointments and low moral, before regaining control only to [...]

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The T 400 trolleybus in Prague

December 20th, 2012
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Prague was the first Czech town, which introduced trolleybuses, but this they vanished alreqady 40 years ago as the trolleybus era lasted from 1936 to 1972.
http://www.praha.eu/jnp/cz/home/doprava_v_praze/mhd/praha_je_40_let_bez_trolejbusu.html

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No more Tatra trucks for Indian army

December 19th, 2012
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The Indian Army has 7,983 Tatra trucks but “there is no further procurement” of these vehicles or their spare parts, the government said Monday. Defence minister AK Antony told the Lok Sabha that the existing Tatra trucks formed about 4% of the total vehicles authorized for use by the army.
Asked about details of ongoing projects [...]

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