The National Technical Museum parked a rare car in one of the oldest garages in Bohemia, which is also part of the premises of the Centre of Building Heritage of the National Technical Museum Plasy. Its uniqueness is complemented by the power of the story it boasts.

Laurin & Klement was one of the pioneers of car manufacturing in the Czech Republic. In addition to passenger cars, it also produced commercial vehicles of various designs. In the aftermath of the First World War, the company ran into difficulties which led to its merger with the Škoda Group. From 1925, vehicles from Mladá Boleslav bore the name Laurin & Klement – Škoda. One of the brand’s most successful commercial vehicles was the Type 125, produced between 1927 and 1929, when more than 1,600 units were built. Unfortunately, only three cars of this type have survived to the present day in the station wagon version.

This light truck was very popular among small tradesmen. The first owners of the exhibited wagon were the Křivanc siblings running a shop in the village of Blatnice near Nýřany. After 1948, their shop was nationalized, but they hid their favourite car, which survived a trip to Pilsen during the bombing at the end of World War II, in a barn, where it survived not only nationalization, but also a number of Iron Sundays, when it was threatened with being taken to the scrap yard. A special feature of this car is the secondary modification to run on compressed gas – see the cylinders under the load area. The car is still in the possession of the family of the first owners, and the National Technical Museum is negotiating to acquire it for its collections.