Yava Motorcycle Photo
Photo: Ludmila Krzestianova, Czech Radio Motorcycles Jawa are known to all and to everyone, as they were considered the best available for sale on the territory of the former USSR. Having entered a little history, we will find that the name " Yava " has nothing to do with the same island, but is a reduction on behalf of the owner of Francesek Yanechek ' s factory and the name of Wandererer ' s firm, which he purchased equipment and licences for the production of first motorcycles under the Jawa mark. But it's not about motorcycles, it's about Jawa's cars, which are not known to all.
" Mark Jawa is well known in Czech and abroad for motorcycle production, and relatively few know that there were also cars under it from 1934 to 1947 with a war break.
We decided, together with the Jawa Auto Club, to show the public through a small exhibition at the National Technical Museum.
Photo: Ludmila Krzetyanova, Czech radio, as mentioned by Petr Kojišek, Jawa cars have been produced for a little over a decade. They currently exist around 80. Six of them can be seen at the exhibition.
" There were only two types of cars on the Jawa brand: first Jawa 700 in 1934-37 and then Jawa Minor. Each, however, was produced with different types of bodies. For example, Jawa Minor was proposed in the option of a closed four-bed car, an open four-bed car, an open two-bed sports car, and an open version for the army. The five cars represented at the exhibition are ordinary serial products and the sixth, Jawa 750, were produced in only three copies for the 10,000 Czechoslovak miles race that took place in 1935. This car is the only one left, and it is now owned by our museum.