Kees Smit sold his Tatra to the Louwman museeum. The T87 will be part of their permanent exhibition at the ground fllor. The present T87 of the museum will be transferred to the Toyota museum in Japan.
On December 22, the company Morys, s.r.o. handed over to the investor – the Moravian-Silesian Region – the construction of the building of the new Tatra Truck Museum. But it’s not the end. On the contrary, the museum still have a lot of work to do with the new exhibition and they hope they will be able to do it all. And – of course – they also want 2021 to be much better and more normal than the ending one.
Author: Radim Zatopek
The origin of Slovenská Strela is described by experts in relatively detail, and if we grind it on the net, we get enough information about this great vehicle from the Kopřivnice Tatras, which confirms us in the general opinion that it was an exceptional, really functional and reliable vehicle. One of the two vehicles produced, the M290.002, which is a National Cultural Monument, has undergone a thorough renovation in the last two years, and soon there will be a time when it will again run on its own tracks and anchor in the newly built pavilion in Kopřivnice, prepared by Tatra. Trucks as
The second M290.001 vehicle, which no longer exists today, was not so lucky. After the end of operation, the vehicle became a source of spare parts for the car M290.002, so that eventually, demolished and abandoned burned on the parking track. And the fact that the M290.001 was not easy during operation is proved by the picture after the accident of this vehicle. Significant damage to the front occurred as a result of a collision with a truck near Modřice in May 1938. The surviving document describes that after the accident on 31 May 1938, the car was brought to Kopřivnice for repair, where a record of the extent of damage was made and a procedure was proposed. repairs. All damage is thoroughly defined in the document as well as the repair procedure. In total, it was about 4.5 m2 of damaged area and other partial damage, which was addressed within the whole. At the time of the accident, Strela 001 had driven 230,432 km. Proof of quality damage removal is the fact that Strela 001 returned to the track on September 23, 1938 and was in operation until 1953.
The origin of Slovenská Strela is described by experts in relatively detail, and if we grind it on the net, we get enough information about this great vehicle from the Kopřivnice Tatras, which confirms us in the general opinion that it was an exceptional, really functional and reliable vehicle. One of the two vehicles produced, the M290.002, which is a National Cultural Monument, has undergone a thorough renovation in the last two years, and soon there will be a time when it will again run on its own tracks and anchor in the newly built pavilion in Kopřivnice, prepared by Tatra. Trucks as
The second M290.001 vehicle, which no longer exists today, was not so lucky. After the end of operation, the vehicle became a source of spare parts for the car M290.002, so that eventually, demolished and abandoned burned on the parking track. And the fact that the M290.001 was not easy during operation is proved by the picture after the accident of this vehicle. Significant damage to the front occurred as a result of a collision with a truck near Modřice in May 1938. The surviving document describes that after the accident on 31 May 1938, the car was brought to Kopřivnice for repair, where a record of the extent of damage was made and a procedure was proposed. repairs. All damage is thoroughly defined in the document as well as the repair procedure. In total, it was about 4.5 m2 of damaged area and other partial damage, which was addressed within the whole. At the time of the accident, Strela 001 had driven 230,432 km. Proof of quality damage removal is the fact that Strela 001 returned to the track on September 23, 1938 and was in operation until 1953.
(source Radim Zatopek)
The Tatra Around the World 2 expedition will continue after a six-month break forced by the Covid-19 pandemic, its members announced in a press release on Sunday. The expedition will head for Africa in the spring. This entails a small change of plan since the expedition was originally supposed to continue in Asia, but the organizers say they fear border closures in the region.
The expedition, which left Prague in February, crossed the Balkans before getting stuck in Turkey during the first wave of Covid-19. After three months they managed to get to Iran where the team spent another 90 days before they were forced to return to Prague.
The expedition now wants to pass through ten African countries before moving on to South, Central and North America. Its plans will depend on the development of the pandemic.
The Tatra Around the World 2 expedition aims to cover 270,000 kilometres across 70 countries and five continents over a period of three years.
The project is a follow-up on a similar expedition undertaken in the late 1980s and early 1990s and one of its aims was to promote Czech industry abroad.
