Fablok
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| legal form | Spółka akcyjna (joint stock company) |
| founding | May 22, 1919 |
| Seat | Chrzanów |
| Website | www.fablok.com.pl |
Fablok is a Polish manufacturer of diesel locomotives , mobile cranes , bogies , wheelsets and other machine elements . Steam locomotives were also built in the past . Until 1947 the official name was Pierwsza Fabryka Lokomotyw w Polsce Sp. Akc. (German about: First locomotive factory in Poland AG ). Fablok is a frequently used abbreviation for Fabryka Lokomotyw (German: Lokomotivfabrik), the current name of the manufacturer. The full company name is Fablok Spółka akcyjna or Fablok SA The legal form is that of a joint stock company . The company's headquarters are in Chrzanów .
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Fablok was founded in 1919. A year later, a contract was signed with the Polish government, which provided for the delivery of 1200 steam locomotives to the Polish State Railways . The first locomotive was delivered on April 7, 1924. The first locomotive for export was handed over to the Bulgarian State Railways in 1931 . In 1935 and 1936, Fablok manufactured five electric locomotives under license from Metropolitan-Vickers . 1936 built five Luxtorpedas which a design by Austro-Daimler -derived one-piece quick railcars were.
In 1937, Fablok manufactured two steam locomotives that were designed for high speeds on a trial basis. It was the PKP series Pm36 . One of them was built as a streamlined locomotive , the other unclad. So both machines should be compared in terms of top speed, acceleration, coal and water consumption, etc. The disguised Pm36-1 was awarded a gold medal at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris.
During the Second World War, during the German occupation of Poland, Fablok was incorporated into the German Locomotive Manufacturers Association. It mainly produced class 52 war locomotives . During this time the name of the company was Erste Lokomotivfabrik in Polen AG Chrzanow (1939–1941) and from 1941 Oberschlesische Lokomotivwerke Krenau .
In 1947 the company was nationalized and the official name was changed to Fablok. The foreign markets for passenger, express and freight steam locomotives as well as industrial steam locomotives in Albania, China, Hungary, India, Korea, Romania and Vietnam were supplied. Narrow gauge locomotives were exported to Albania, Bulgaria, China, Romania, Russia and Yugoslavia. The last steam locomotive was built in 1963. Fablok never built the boilers for its steam locomotives itself, but initially had them supplied by Fitzner & Gamber (from 1945: Fabryka Budowy Kotłów) in Sosnowiec , later also by other manufacturers. The production of diesel locomotives began in 1948. At the beginning of the 1960s, the product range was expanded to include components for rail vehicles (trains and trams).
From 1977 construction machines were also manufactured and the name of the company changed to Fabryka Maszyn Budowlanych i Lokomotyw BUMAR-FABLOK (German: Factory for construction machines and locomotives BUMAR-FABLOK ). The company was taken over by the state-owned Bumar Group in Warsaw . Produced were excavator m³ with a bucket capacity of 1.2, cranes with 25-28 t lifting capacity, self-propelled truck cranes , as well as required for this telescopic boom. In 1999 the company was certified according to ISO 9001 . In 2003 Bumar-Fablok was privatized as a stock corporation. In 2004 the 85th anniversary was celebrated. On April 3, 2009 the name was changed back to Pierwsza Fabryka Lokomotyw w Polsce "Fablok" SA .
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred B. Gottwaldt: German War Locomotives 1939-1945 . Franckh Verlag, Stuttgart 1973
Web links
- Fablok SA website (Polish)
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 41 ″ N , 19 ° 23 ′ 28 ″ E