FAUR

FAUR SA
legal form	Corporation
founding	1921
Seat	Bucharest , Romania
Number of employees	about 400
Website	www.faur.ro

FAUR SA is a Romanian vehicle and machine manufacturer based in Bucharest .

The company was founded in 1921 by the industrialist Nicolae Malaxa under the name Malaxa and was later also named Rogifer (until 1945) and Lokomotivfabrik 23 August (from 1945) in memory of the 1944 coup . At first, FAUR only manufactured rail vehicles, since 1950 the production program has also included machines for various branches of industry. In the RGW the factory produced at the request of the DDR series 119 of the German National Railroad , since neither the East nor the USSR could offer diesel locomotives to the desired power. During this time, L18H narrow-gauge locomotives were also delivered to the GDR. In 1986 these were two locomotives that were in use at the Bebel hut in Helbra (copper extraction). One of the locomotives is now in operation in France with a new engine. Further locomotives were delivered to Helbra in 1990, but no longer needed due to the closure of the hut. You are working in Germany.

Even after the end of the COMECON, the main branches of production are still the manufacture and maintenance of rail vehicles of various types and gauges as well as the manufacture of machine components and engines.

In Germany, in addition to the above-mentioned class 119 (later 219/229) locomotives, a number of FAUR narrow-gauge locomotives are in use:

Two L18H locomotives each on the Wangerooger Inselbahn and at the Albbähnle
one locomotive of the type L30H on the SOEG , two more on the Döllnitzbahn
One L45H locomotive each for the Fichtelbergbahn , the Lößnitzgrundbahn , the Weißeritztalbahn and the Saxon-Upper Lusatian Railway Company

There are also two L45H locomotives in Austria : the ÖGLB locomotive 2099.01 on the Ybbstalbahn and another machine on the Stainzerbahn .

In addition to their country of origin, FAUR locomotives are more widely represented in the other countries that were members of the Comecon. At PKP , for example, the Lyd2 (L30H), Lxd2 (L45H) and MBxd2 (A20D-P railcars) series are on various narrow-gauge railroads. Further FAUR locomotives were sold to Great Britain and St. Kitts and are in use there.

Faur nameplate
Faur L30H of the PKP series Lyd2
FAUR locomotive of type L45H as MÁV Mk 45 2005
FAUR LDH 125 as ČSD series 748.5, Malešice heating plant, Prague
FAUR A20D-P as PKP MBxd2 224
Faur L18H in action at the Bebel hut in Helbra in June 1990

Web links

Commons : FAUR Lokomotiven - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website (Romanian and English)
Newspaper article on Rogifer AG in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .