Exercise

Civil defense drill

Prague, 1930s

 

Source: Militaryphotos Forum

The Torino

6.9-ton Škoda-Fiat Torino, built on the Fiat 18BL truck chassis and armed by a pair of 7.92mm machine guns, was the first armored vehicle designed and produced in independent Czechoslovakia. 11 vehicles were issued to the Army in 1920.

Due to numerous mechanical failures, they service life was relatively short - most were retired by 1925, the last were scrapped in 1929.

Info & images: Tanks!, valka.cz

Bohemian Rhapsody

1934 Walter Super Regent Airspeed Sodomka

1934 Walter Regent Cabriolet Sodomka

1938 Škoda Š 532 Prototype

Stylish Tricar

Tatra T49 

Powered by a one-cylinder four-stroke 529 cc engine, the little T49 three-wheeler had a lot in common with larger conventional models, T12 and T30. Only 200 were produced.

Source: Tatraportal

Gunner Position

Avia B 71 medium bomber (license-built Soviet SB)
Czechoslovak Air Force
ca. 1937

Czech Streamline

1937 Skoda Superb Type 913 Sodomka

Light Bomber

Aero A.100, Czechoslovak Air Force, 1930s

Via Peter Dupont @ Network 54

Jawa Motorcycle

Poster by František Zelenka
1930s

Czech Functionalism

J.K. Tyl School
Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
1925-28
Architect: J. Gočár

Source: profmedia.cz

White Swan, 1939

The Bílá labuť (White Swan) department store in Prague was built in 1937-1939, designed by architects Josef Hrubý and Josef Kittrich. Atop the three-storey tower extension with a terrace was an 8-metre rotating neon swan designed by graphic artist Božidar Leiser.

Source: www.zlatasedesata.com
via archigrafo @ LJ

Tesla Radio

Tesla Talisman 308U
1953

via ANTIQUE RADIO TUBE @ Flickr

Mobile Unit

Czechoslovak motorcyclists
1930s

via militaryphotos.net

Prague Car Show

Here Come the Sleek

1937

via paul.malon @ Flickr

Tatraplan Poster

Rear-engine Tatraplan T600 (1946-1952) was a development of the pre-war T97 model.

Hit the Road!

Czechoslovak Army
1930's

New Oresteia

Czech book cover
1920's

via Found in Mom's Basement

Wheel/Track

Following WW1 and a side trip to deliver the "M-21" to Sweden, Josef Vollmer, the former chief designer for the German War Department's motor vehicle section, came to reside in Czechoslovakia. Joining Skoda, he set to work on a wheel/track light tank. His KH-50 design had roadwheels mounted on the drive sprockets and a jockey wheel behind to keep the tracks up off the ground.
Despite impressive specifications - 13mm armor, a 37mm turret mounted gun, and a 50hp engine capable of pushing the tank up to 8mph (tracks) and 22mph (wheels), it was rejected by the Czechoslovak army. However, the army was impressed. The military liked the hybrid Kolohousenka wheel/track arrangement and commissioned further studies. Further designs would be the KH-60 and 70.
Notable differences would be the engine power increased to 60-70hp and a better system of switching between track and wheel. A simple ramp device allowed the track-to-wheel change in less than 10 minutes.
The actual years of production and testing were 1925 - 30, during which time, two KH-50 prototypes were built. One was rebuilt into a KH-60 and the other scrapped. Actual production included two KH-60 for the USSR and one KH-70 for Italy.
As time passed, this vehicle came to be regarded as more of an experiment rather than a combat vehicle.

Source: TANKS!

Czekhoslovak Multi-Purpose

The Letov Š-50 was a 1930s prototype Czechoslovak military general purpose aircraft designed and built by Letov.
The Š-50 was a an all-metal twin-engined low mid-wing monoplane that first flew in 1938. Powered by two 420hp (313kW) Avia Rk-17 radial engines. It had a fixed landing gear and twin fins and rudders. Following the German occupation development was stopped, but the plane was already obsolete: two other entries for the 1938 contest were much more advanced.

Medium Machine Gun

Czechoslovak Army Schwarzlose-Janeček vz.07/12/24 7.92mm MG - a minor upgrade of the Austrian (German-designed) 8mm Schwarzlose M.07/12

1924