Laurin & Klement memorial, Mladá Boleslav
Towards the end of a holiday first in Slovakia then in the Czech Republic in June 2019 I unfortunately lost my Olympus E-PL1 digital camera. However, fortunately for the last day I had an Olympus Trip 35 film camera as a back-up and this is one of the photos I took on that last day, of the Laurin & Klement statues outside the Škoda Museum in Mladá Boleslav, where I was visiting primarily for being the birthplace, on 25th December 1949, of Valérie Čižmárová's sometime theatrical colleague, Miluška Voborníková.
The statues, in honour of the co-founders of Laurin & Klement, the predecessor to Škoda Auto, Václav Laurin and Václav Klement, were created by Michal Moravec (b. 1951) and installed in 2005. The sign with their names uses Reklameschrift Herold. This display typeface by the Berthold foundry was first cast in 1901, six years after the two automotive pioneers founded their company, and four years before they started producing cars.
