Jelcz — a cleaning rag

Jelcz Glasses Cleaning Cloth

Microfiber cloth for cleaning glasses or LCD screens. Dimensions 15 cm x 15 cm.

Jelcz 300

Jelcz is not only a favorite place for Lower Silesians, where they spend summer afternoons by the lake. Jelcz is also famous trucks, with the iconic 300 series produced between 1968 and 1992. However, before our Jelcz went into production, the Jelcz Automobile Works manufactured its predecessor, the Żubr A80. It was a flawed model, yet it had a load capacity of up to 8 tons – it was, until then, the only Polish-made truck with such a capacity. The Jelcz factories began work on a new, better-designed truck model in 1966, aiming to produce a vehicle that could transport loads weighing 10 to 12 tons.

Thus, in 1967, prototypes of the Jelcz "three-hundreds" were created. In the early 1970s, the load capacity even exceeded the desired 12 tons, allowing for the transport of 18-ton loads. Despite increasingly better results, the trucks from Jelcz did not satisfy the manufacturers. Therefore, in 1972, the Automobile Works proposed cooperation with the Austrian company Steyr-Daimler-Puch. From then on, Austrian components were used in Polish trucks. Soon after, due to technical difficulties, the cooperation was terminated, and the Jelcz factories returned to improving older designs, thus maintaining production until the 1990s. Now the famous "three-hundreds" are not seen on the streets, but they can be seen on T-shirts – thanks to you, Jelcz will remain iconic.

The drawing was made by Wrocław artist Paweł Grabowski.