[valdo]

Thanks, Valdo, for such detailed story. Its very sad, that all 1st generation speedometers irretrievably lost. I\'ll try to write inquiry to GAZ plant museum, maybe they have photo or something.

As I\'ve read many times from a Russian Pobeda forum http://webforum.land.ru/wb.php?board=8793 it\'s quite hard to get any information from GAZ museum and archive. Therefore, you can try, maybe it will successfull this time.

I wrote, that I doubt that the first Pobeda items were equipped with an ordinary GAZ 51 old-type speedometer (before 1947 or 1948). However it itself is a little bit rarity (was mounted in GAZ 51-s only until 1955) but I have certainly the photo of it taken by myself. Maybe it is published somewhere in internet too.