RITAM SRBIJE RHYTHM OF SERBIA
Češka tatra, model 57b, proizvedena je 1957. godine The Czech Tatra, model 57b, produced in 1957
lows. And thus Milorad’s son Ranko was born in 1929, and two years later came Milivoj. Dedicated to the land, agriculture and technology, they opened the rst mec- hanics workshop in 1936. And during the di cult post- war times they managed not only to maintain this bu- siness, but also to improve it. e boys had diering interests, but were equally successful at what they did. Ranko, the elder brother, was taken away from managing the farm early on by his great curiosity and basketball. He started working as a coach in the early 1950s, at a time when he’d nis- hed his playing career. Over the next twenty years, and with great success, he led Yugoslavia’s men’s basketball team to the shiniest trophies on several occasions. He was the coach of ‘ e Blues’ at three Olympics, three world championships and three European champion- ships. Meanwhile Milorad’s younger son, Milivoj, de- dicated his entire working life to the development of
ŽERAVICA MUSEUM The oldest functioning tractor celebrates its 100 th birthday Žeravica, a word that our people use to refer to red-hot solid fuel residue, means something completely different in this story O nce upon a time, two villages existed. Be- odra, the older village, which was first men- tioned in 1331, while the younger village of Karlovo was founded in 1751. Karlo- vo changed its name to Dragutinovo in 1918, and then, in 1946, the two villages were merged to form today’s Novo Miloševo, a village located in Vo- jvodina, some 17 kilometres from Kikinda and 20 kilo- metres from Novi Bečej. e root of our story can be traced back to 1909, when Milorad Žeravica was born. His hard-working family was engaged in agriculture and cultivated the land, and in 1924 it became the rst family to acquire the then marvel of technology that was the Fordson 10-20 HP tractor. Having a tractor in the village back then was a real rarity and something of an attraction. e family grew and developed, with highs and
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