https://www.oberonreview.com.au/story/5839418/skoda-and-tatra-museums-big-opening-is-getting-close-now/

Hans Ledwinka has become an honorary citizen of Koprivnice.  Though his role during WWII was doubted. leading to the imprisonment of six years due to assumed collaboration, he was rehabilitated in 1992 by the Czech High Court.  Still his role was controversial among “old” politicians. But thanks to the diligence of the Tatra club of Koprivnice and its president Alena Cipova and former Tatra museum director Karel Rosenkranz, the city council of Koprivnice agreed and in september 2018 it became a fate.

Biography https://www.tatratrucks.com/about-the-company/press-and-media/news/hans-ledwinka-1/

http://www.czechtradeoffices.com/en/ae/news/tatra-trucks-signs-licence-for-truck-production-in-china

https://newsbeezer.com/czechrepubliceng/tatra-vehicles-will-be-sold-in-n/

http://chinacarhistory.com/2018/08/27/the-story-of-china-national-heavy-truck-group-sinotruk-changzheng-auto/

More photos by Jaroslav Sopuch: beskydy_2018_sopuch

https://auto.hnonline.sk/automobilky/1857568-najslavnejsie-ceskoslovenske-auto-rychla-tatra-vozila-celebrity-aj-zlych-estebakov

Your editor just couldn’t resist being in Prague on August 21, 2018.  Fifty years after.  There were several l exhibitions about the Warsaw Pact counties invasion, though I felt the authorities were ambivalent about the commemoration, as the communist became part of the government in July 2018, the first time since 1989, the public using the commemoration not only to disapprove upon what happened in 1968, but also the present prime-minister.

https://jalopnik.com/why-the-tatra-603-was-the-coolest-commie-car-ever-1830749703

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCn_5ZHVr_U&feature=share&app=desktop&fbclid=IwAR2mQgWW2vR1BlJtAYUSLqCpVJ5YweyvXRXF_-qhdFGaghYnlVoMQIHvZw4

https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/motoring/the-beetle-and-the-tatra/article24744617.ece