MÁVAG
Magyar Királyi Államvasutak Gépgyára , MÁVAG for short ( German machine factory of the Royal Hungarian State Railways ) was a Hungarian locomotive and wagon factory owned by the Kingdom of Hungary . After the Second World War , MÁVAG was nationalized and the addition "Királyi" ( Royal ) was deleted from the company name.
The company once employed several thousand workers. The factory was located in the 8th district of Budapest , adjacent to Kőbányai, Hungária, Vajda Péter and Orczy streets . Alongside Ganz & Cie, it was the most famous Hungarian machine factory in the 19th century. MÁVAG is best known for its steam locomotives that were produced from 1873 onwards . For the millennium of Hungary in 1896, MÁVAG delivered the 1000th locomotive to the Hungarian state railway MÁV .
The company's engineers played a decisive role in the development of electrical engineering . Károly Zipernowsky , Miksa Déri and Ottó Titusz Bláthy brought the transformer to series production in 1885 . Kálmán Kandó introduced three-phase rail operations in 1900/1902 . After 1924, MÁVAG built the famous MÁV class 424 locomotives .
In the inter-war period , MÁVAG produced trucks , trolleybuses , omnibuses and automobiles . For this purpose, Ford acquired a license to manufacture the Ford Eifel in 1936 and the Ford V8 in 1939 . Tanks and other war material were made during World War II . This included the license production of the Italian Reggiane Re. 2000 , as well as its MÁVAG own further development, Hejja II .
A close cooperation with Mercedes-Benz had existed since 1938 at the latest. The Lo 3500 truck was built under license.
MÁVAG exported locomotives abroad at an early stage, for example in 1900 to Italy and Romania , and later to Egypt , India , Yugoslavia and Korea . By the time the last steam locomotive was delivered in 1959, MÁVAG had produced a total of 7578 steam locomotives.
In 1959, MÁVAG merged with the neighboring Ganz locomotive and wagon factory , which manufactured electric locomotives , diesel locomotives and wagons for domestic and international use, and operated under the name “Ganz-MÁVAG” until 1988. This year the company was split up into several companies and the word "MÁVAG" was deleted from the company name.
See also
literature
- Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The great automobile encyclopedia. BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5 .
