Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Sept 24, 2018 (II)

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I forgot this article last night.

(5) David Rocks, The Scooter That Communism Built.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a ... -comeback-in-prague

Note:
(a)
(i) An electric version of a long-forgotten Czech bike aims to recapture the mood of 1960s Prague
(ii) Print and the online version are identical.
(b) "Less than a year after V-E Day, the Italian fighter plane maker Piaggio introduced a Jet Age-inspired motorbike that quickly won accolades for its cool design and twitchy engine. It was called the Vespa, or 'wasp' * * * [A 1953 film] Roman Holiday made it a Hollywood icon."
(i)
(A) Rinaldo Piaggio founded the company in 1884
(B) Rinaldo is the Italian cognate of English male given name Reynold.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynold
(ii) Vespa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vespa
(1946- ; "Upon seeing the MP6 for the first time, Enrico Piaggio exclaimed: 'Sembra una vespa!' ('It looks like a wasp!' ")
(iii) Italian-English dictionary:
* vespa (noun feminine; from Latin [noun feminine] vespa [wasp]): "wasp"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vespa

(c) "Czechoslovakia came up with communism's answer to the fast-growing scooter phenomenon: the Cezeta. * * * the bike's squat profile and porcine snout earned it the nickname [Czech noun neuter] prase, or 'pig.' "
(i) Česká zbrojovka manufactured Čezeta from 1957 to 1964.  en.wikipedia.org for Čezeta.
(A) Vintage Scooters: Velorex and Čezeta. Expats.cz, Sept 16, 2013
https://news.expats.cz/automotiv ... velorex-and-cezeta/
("The Čezeta name comes from the manufacturer of the machine, Česká Zbrojovka or better known to bikers around the world as CZ. This is a company still very much in existence today though motorcycle production was amalgamated with Jawa [another Prague motorcycle company that still exists making the same] in communist times and they have not been involved with vehicle production since 1979")
(B) Česká zbrojovka firearms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Česká_zbrojovka_firearms
("CZ stands for Česká zbrojovka which means Czech Armory")
(C) Czech-English dictionary:
* In Czech language, český (adj), Česko (noun neuter: the Czech Republic, whose synonym is Česká republika; compare Československo), and noun masculine Čech (a male Czech person) and noun feminine Češka (a female Czech person).
   ^ Česká republika
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Česká_republika
* zbrojovka (noun feminine): "armory"
https://en.bab.la/dictionary/czech-english/zbrojovka