Historical untruth in article of Moscow journalist Fedor Lapshin «About Loutzky trucks, Daimler and historical truth»

Alexander Firsov

Abstract— This paper analyzes the reliability of the information given in the article of Moscow journalist Fedor Lapshin «About Loutzky trucks, Daimler and historical truth». This article was published in the Russian automotive publication «Autoreview». It provides information about the Russian engineer Boris Loutzky, German engineer Gottlieb Daimler and the first trucks. The purpose of this article – to refute false information contained in the article of Moscow journalist Fedor Lapshin «About Loutzky trucks, Daimler and historical truth». It has been found that the article of Fedor Lapshin is full of fictions, speculations and absurd versions. It contains distorted and not always correct facts from life and work of genius designer and inventor Boris Loutzky. The article of Fedor Lapshin shows not historical truth about the life and work of Boris Loutzky.

Key words: B. Loutzky, G. Daimler, engineer, first trucks, reliability of the information, fictions, absurd versions