Koprivnice hopes to convince the EU that a new Tatra museum, organized according to the www.meilenwerk.de/ /  milestones/inside-milestones.htm formula, will be a major factor for developing the north-east Moravia region. It could attract tourists and provide employment in the region that suffers from unemployment. The building Koprivnice has in mind is an early 20th century hall of Tatra with the necessary historic atmosphere and is well suited for the job. With a station on its doorsteps, it could be the ideal location. Within weeks the EC will decide, but there is quite some competition. We keep our fingers crossed.

IXO has been known for a while now to produce an interesting series of models of Eastern European cars, many of which were not previously available in scale 1/43, or at affordable prices. One of the latest additions to their range is the Tatra 613. About a year ago, they contacted Tatra World to find a suitable Tatra 613 and were put in touch with several 613 owners.  They contacted Peter Visser in The Netherlands, who owns a very original 1978 ‘Chromka’, the car of their choice. Peter’s 613 was then measured and photographed, an intriguing process which took an expert from Belgium a full day, using computers and laser equipment to produce a 3D computer model. All in all, the 613 was “touched” with a laser pen over 100,000 times! In addition to the computer graphs, a large number of interior pictures was shot. These were used by the model makers in China, who came up with a finely detailed model, complete with both exterior rear view mirrors, the extra lights under the front bumper, the appropriate chrome and even the detailed Tatra hub caps. The 613 model is now available in the IST / De Agostini series in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, and will hopefully be available the world over soon. 

(Peter Visser)

We know that the author of this sentence has some credits in the automotive world, but I don’t expect we will ever see this phrase in a Tatra museum.

(Seen in the new Louwman Automuseum, The Hague Netherlands)

Dave Richards, T 603 owner, and known to classic Tatra enthusiasts as a former editor of Classic & Sportscars, doing several articles on Tatra, has now been appointed as editor of Classic Car Weekly, Britain’s best selling classic car weekly newspaper.

We wish the energetic, restless Tatra fan who was responible for several TRUK rallies as well as the 2008 NEC Tatra stand all the best with this step in his career.

http://www.journalism.co.uk/8/articles/538424.php
http://www.classiccarweekly.co.uk/

Last thursday, Dutch Queens day, Czech pre-war cars gathered at Hagestein amidst 50 other pre-war cars. The event was organized by the PAC, the Pionier Automobielen Club, one of Holland’s oldest classic car clubs. http://www.pionierautomobielenclub.nl/cms/  Amidst Citroens, De Dion-Boutons, Bentleys, Lagondas, Chryslers, Fords, Austins, Moris, Peugeots and older brands, the former Czechoslovakia was represented by two Pragas, two Tatras and two Aeros.

Photo shows Praga, T 87, T57 and two Aeros.

 Some Tatra events are coming up soon. In Dresden a classic Tatra parade will conclude the Dresden Ledwinka exhibition on May 16. View the flyer at http://www.tatraclub.at/images/stories/Flyer_Programm_Verkehrsmuseum_16._Mai.pdf

In Italy, the May 13-16 TFI rally near Bergamo has attracted Tatra fans from several European countries. It will be this year’s first major Tatra meeting.  Tatra World will be on the spot with its T77a and a report will be on this site asap.

Apart from aircraft and civil defense shelters, the new “Veteran Arena” Museum houses about 100 veteran cars, mainly from the interbellum years. Backbone of the car collection are an astonishing number of Tatras like T12, T17, T30, T52, T54, T57, T57a, T57K, T75Bohemia, T75Long, T97, Tatraplan all models T603, T 613, T613S, T700.
The Museum will open its doors to the public on May 15, 2010. 

http://www.veteranarena.cz/

More photos and video: http://www.ct24.cz/regionalni/89024-desitky-historickych-vozu-oslnuji-v-olomouckem-muzeu/
http://www.tatra-club.com/article_detail.php?id=51
http://www.financninoviny.cz/zajimavosti/index_img.php?id=140891

What could be the right translation for ”Slovenska Strela?” Until now the translation for the Ledwinka designed high-speed train in western literature has been “Slovak Arrow” in English and “Sovakischer Pfeil” in German though I have seen “Slovak missile” as well. In a comment on Tatra World’s “Slovak Arrow declared Czech national cultural heritage”our Slovak Tatra friend gagoftak remarked however that the adequate translation of “Strela” should be gunshot. Several on-line Slovak-English dictionaries say the accurate translation is not “gunshot” but the similar word “shot” or quite differently, “bullet.”

Arrow seems to be the wrong word, but is it missile, shot, gunshot or bullet?
Who of our language-gifted friends can help us with the correct translation?

More on the Slovenska Strela:
http://tatraklub.tatraportal.sk/strela.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovensk%C3%A1_strela

Kopřivnice – as we have already printed in the Saturday edition Novojičínského newspaper, rail motor car M 290.001, known as the “Slovak strela”(Slovak Arrow), the government declared a national cultural monument.
Great news that the “Slovak strela” got on the list of national cultural heritage, where his steadfast position for many years and holds the Charles Bridge, St.. Víta, Karlštejn, the crown jewels and more than two hundred fifty more artifacts and objects, last week told the Director of the Technical Museum Tatra Kopřivnice Lumír Kavalek. “I would say that our response to this announcement was very, very positive,” approached the initial response to happy, and very exceptional, the fact Kavalek continued: “That Arrow was recognized by the Slovak national cultural monument, a unique kind of matter is but above all moral valuation of quality and originality of products Tatras. ”

Marking a national cultural monument, however, by the Director of the Technical Museum Tatra does not just profit and the possibility of financial recovery, “Statement of anything as a national cultural monument, in my opinion, does not primarily profit. On the contrary, brings more responsibilities, such as better care of the building. “Kavalek but denied that it received awards have contributed to the increase in the interest of visitors, not only on the railway itself, which is now before Kopřivnice Technology Museum, but also the Tatra as such. “We are putting forward the visitors a hundred and fifty years history of the Tatras and can boast that the products which have been declared a cultural monument, a sort of precursor of the national cultural monuments in the museum have forty-five,” said Kavalek.

Another important responsibilities you have with him this award brings, the financial security of artefacts. “Maybe it could be such a moral appeal to all of us, to us, hopefully soon, I managed to generate the funds that she was a national cultural monument, in addition to its beautiful award came as a beautiful coat,” he said, recalling the financial Kavalek intensity of care tatrovácké cars: “Reconstruction and concern for such types of cars or the like is really something.”

Also Kopřivnice city, led by its Mayor Joseph heifer was very pleased with the new reality: “Of course we are very happy, but she is quite fresh information,” he said in a telephone interview feelings Kopřivnický mayor added: “I think it is a great honor to have, in addition to all other castles, palaces and other large technical monuments in our country such monument. Then also in terms of importance and marketing of the city is very pleasing news. ”

Awards helped experts
Proposal to valuation and classification of rail motor car M 290.001 who once Brázdil tracks on the route Prague – Bratislava, the list of national cultural heritage initiated by the workers themselves, not only the Technical Museum Tatra, but help them as experts of renown from the National Technical Museum in Prague. “We initiated the 1999 Declaration Slovak shells as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic, which is now acquired a sort of precursor awards. It became a decision of the Minister of Culture in 2000 it was declared a cultural monument of the CR, as well as other already mentioned, four dozen objects Tatry, which we have in our museum, “outlining the beginnings of which led to obtaining an honorary place in the company of other major national monuments Kavalek. In his words, the uniqueness and originality of products and cars Tatry perceived as experts at the National Technical Museum in Prague and they just helped the Slovak shot on the list. I think that is their intercession she was the last straw in the decision of the government for recognition,” he concluded.

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