Tatra Books in English

Tatra: The Legacy Of Hans Ledwinka, by Ivan Margolius and John G. Henry. Published by SAF Ltd. in the United Kingdom in 1990. Hard cover, 160 pages, lots of b&w pictures, ISBN 0 946719 063. A very good book which covers all the cars since the 1890s and up to the late-1980s. It also summarizes the pre-automobile years and covers the trucks, trains, and aeroplanes made by Tatra.
Automobile Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1969: great article about Tatra since 1897 by Bretislav P. B. de Dubé.
Automobile Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 2: Tatraplan T600 article.

Air Cooled Automotive Engines by Julius Mackerle. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Translated from the original Czech edition by Karel Caslavsky, edited by Keith S Alderton. Published by Charles Griffin and Company, London, 1972, ISBN 0 85264 205 9.

First edition published by Cleaver-Hume press, London, 1961. The book is a translation of "Vzduchem chlazene vozidlove motory", published by Statni nakl. technicke literatury, Prague, 1972.

A fairly detailed book about air-cooled engine design, containing many diagrams, cut-away drawings and photos of all types of air-cooled engines, many of them Tatra.
Tatra Passenger cars: 100 Years by Karel Rosenkranz.

ISBN 80-900705-7-4.

Publisher: GT Club Praha.

Price, directly from publisher: DM 94,-- = DM. 25,-- for mail.

The book is more a catologue having very little text in 4 modern languages. Quality of paper, printing and photos is very good. 450 pages, 700 photo's in b/w and colour. A must for every Tatra fan.

-Kees Smit

Tatra Books in Czech and other Languages

Tatra 100 Let Ceskeho Automobilu 1897 1997 by Miroslav Gomola. ISBN 80-85991-01-2.

Publisher: A.G.M. Gomola, Brno.

Czech text. 368 pages, 420 b/w photo's, 30 colour photo's.

Because the text is czech it is hard to judge the text. Quality of paper and photo's is little less than the Rosenkranz book. The price is Cz crowns 590,-- (DM 35,--).

-Kees Smit

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