Some wonerful suits here, taken on the approach to the Bata factory in Yugoslavia, now Croatia, of Borovo - Vukovar. Fierce fighing in the early 90s badly damaged much of what was left here, which originally had been another Bata satellite town, built according to the standards set in Zlin. In the background, the unmistakeble Bata factory built on the 6.15m square unit system build, just as one might find at Ottmuth, Silesia or East Tilbury UK Photographed by a local photographer who probably had a shop in the hotel/community centre in Borovo which opened in 1936. Foto De Bode and had a nice steady income doing local work for Bata and its employees . Work started here in 1931 - 7th June according to this well illustrated source in english , but detelopment continued over the next few years to produce the familiar Bata town, employing architects like Gahura, Karfík and Antonín Vítek, the latter also designing villas in Zlín with Miroslav Lorenc and others.. Vitek had already designed the Bata towns of Ottmuth (German Silesia) and Best (netherlands) whilst Karfik had taken East Tilbury under his belt, as documented here
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