Photographic Album of 1953 Moravian Motorcycling Endurance Race

Ústřední Automotoklub ČSR – Mezinárodní šestidenní soutěž motocyklů FIM 1953 [International Six Days Trial of the FIM 1953]

Gottwaldov: Ústřední Automotoklub ČSR, 1953. Oblong 13 × 22 cm, 24 mounted photographs, with laid-in 47-pp English-language booklet XXVIIIth International Six Days’ Trial of the FIM. General and Supplementary Regulations, Important Information.

Issued by the Central Automobile and Motorcycle Club of the Czechoslovak Republic for the XXVIII FIM International Six Days’ Trial, held 15–20 September 1953 on a roughly 2,000 km route through Gottwaldov and the Moravian countryside. The booklet describes the event as the “annual contest of reliability” for motorcycles and three-wheelers (six one-day runs including a night section) testing both endurance and precision. The linen-bound album, tied with cord, presents 24 crisp black-and-white photographs documenting competitors, machines, and spectators, emblematic of postwar Czechoslovakia’s technical pride and sporting culture.