A presentation by the general manager, Milan Adam, of Thermo King was followed by a plant tour. Thermo King is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thermo King USA and is the second-largest of 6 production subsidiaries in Europe after Ireland. Thermo King is a subsidiary of Ingersoll-Rand Corp., a manufacturer of air conditioning and construction equipment and industrial and precision machinery with sales of nearly US$ 7 billion annually.

After the tour, the group stopped for a brief lunch at the famous Capone restaurant. Notice the Tennessee beverage that was advertised.

PM - The afternoon was spent visiting the small village of Kutna Hora and the unusual Cemetery Church of All Saints with Ossuary and the Gothic Cathedral of St. Barbara. Kutna Hora came to prominence in the late 13th century as a center for silver mining. The All Saints Ossuary is situated in the middle of the picturesque cemetery in Sedlec. The cemetery was not large enough to take the victims of plague and Hussite wars and skeletal remains were deposited in the lower chapel.

The Gothic Cathedral of St. Barbara, with its tent-like roof supported by three needle spires, came from the design workshop of Peter Parler. The building was financed by the miners' guilds to honor their patron saint.