Jelcz — children's sweatshirt

Jelcz 300

Jelcz is not only a favorite place for people from Lower Silesia, where they spend summer afternoons by the lake. Jelcz is also famous for its trucks, including the iconic 300 series produced between 1968 and 1992. However, before our Jelcz went into production, Jelczańskie Zakłady Samochodowe (Jelcz Car Plants) were producing its predecessor, the Żubr A80. It was a flawed model, but it had a load capacity of up to 8 tons – it was the only Polish-made truck with such a capacity at the time. The Jelcz plants began work on a new, better-designed truck model in 1966, aiming to produce a vehicle that could carry loads weighing from 10 to 12 tons.

This led to the creation of the prototypes for the Jelcz "300s" in 1967. 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 Jelcz vehicles did not satisfy the manufacturers. Therefore, in 1972, the Car Plants approached the Austrian company Steyr-Daimler-Puch with a proposal for cooperation. From then on, Austrian components were used in Polish trucks. Shortly thereafter, due to technical difficulties, the cooperation was interrupted, and the Jelcz plants returned to improving old designs, thus maintaining production until the 1990s. Now, the famous "300s" are not seen on the streets, but they can be seen on t-shirts – thanks to you, Jelcz will remain iconic.

The author of the drawing is the Wrocław artist Paweł Grabowski.