THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1364, sig. 109-4/1118

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~16 - the other principles of presentation are also amended, mainly the minimum radius of the directional arcs have been increased from 400 to 600 m, the maximum longitudinal inclinations of the roadway have been reduced from 8% to 6% and the radius of rounding in the nivelette have been enlarged. With regard to these changes, the detailed project had to be reworked quickly, which the companies carried out in good time, so that exactly after the fixed program beginning of May the construction of the first five lots in Bohemia could be started. V. Progress of the construction work. With the construction work on the Prague - Brno - slovenian border was in complete silence already on the 24th. On January 1 939, when the ILI line began to deforest the forests in the March Mountains and to remove the probes, the work carried out on the ILI line began.During the winter, the same work was carried out to begin work on the ground immediately in spring.All the work has been carried out with the greatest acceleration, so that there is always employment for a large number of workers who were unemployed at that time. The official opening of the construction of the motorway took place on 2 May 1939 by the solemn groundbreaking ceremony at Prühonic at the beginning of the