Traditional Vehicles

          The exhibition “Traditional vehicles” is arranged in the etnography and renaissance complex “St. Sofronii Vrachanski”. In a hall, specially built for the purpose, are displayed products of traditional and modern cart-manufacturing trade as well as documents and photos related to it. The manufacturing of carts and iron tools underwent ever increasing progress and development after the liberation. In the 20s and 30s of the 20th c. It was represented by two factoriesand about twenty workshops which determined the characteristics of modern-production in Vratsa.
         One of the most outstanding names, which turned into an emblem of the trade not onlyin the town but also in the country, was Mito Orozov (1859-1923). Gifted with an extraordinary practical flair for innovation, versatile technical and inventive skills and enviable tenacity, Mito Orozov was the person who determined the lines of development of modern cart manufacturing at the time. The rich assortment of the manufactured products was presented at fairs and exhibitions in the country (Sofia, Plovdiv, Pleven, Russe, Gorna Oriahovitsa) and abroad (London, Leipzig) and was honoured with anumber of medals, diplomas and other signs of honour.

          “I was mostly impressed by Orozov’s factory and more exactly by Orozov himself. Orozov? Was ist das? The proud citizen of the capital would ask…well, take off your hat, friend, make a bow to Mr Orozov and wish that more workers like him were born in Bulgaria! Orozov is a humble self-made person, who has started with making walking sticks and cigarette cases and has ended up building a factory, in which he and about ten workers make elegant cabriolets and phaetons. All the machinery and tools in the factory are made by him. Today the whole vratsa region swarms with carts and cabriolets made in his factory”.

Aleko Konstantinov – Bulgarian writer