Hungarian Lloyd aircraft and engine factory
The Hungarian Lloyd Flugzeug- und Motorenfabrik AG ( Magyar Lloyd Repülőgép és motorgyár Részvény-Társaság ) was a Hungarian aircraft manufacturer during the First World War and in the interwar period .
The company was founded on January 27, 1913 as the Hungarian Lloyd Automobil- und Motorenfabrik AG . The head office was in Budapest , while the production facilities north of Budapest, in Aszód, were in a former boys' boarding school.
As early as April 1914, however, the production and the associated name of the company was changed to Ungarische Lloyd Flugzeug- und Motorenfabrik AG , as the production of cars did not appear profitable. Production began in May 1914. The first lieutenant in peace Heinrich Bier became general director . It was he who set four world altitude records on the first airplane produced in Hungary, the Lloyd LS-1 , in Aspern at a flight meeting in 1914.
Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke also joined the company and sent experts to Budapest. At the beginning, parts for the DFW BI were delivered to Aszód. They were planned for use by the Kuk aviation troops. In fact, no engines were built at the factory.
Technical director was Tibor Melczer from the Technical University of Budapest .
Due to the war, the company was constantly expanded and new halls were built in Aszód. The area covered an area of six cadastral yokes .
There was also an airfield with a runway one kilometer long near the plant. Here the aircraft could be tested and flown in.
A supermarket, workers' home and barracks were built for the employees. A housing estate with villas was also planned for peacetime.
During the entire war, production totaled 287 Lloyd C aircraft (1915: 32, 1916: 65, 1917: 84, 1918: 104 units) .
After the contract of Trianon , the further construction of aircraft was prohibited, so that the production was switched to furniture and body parts. In 1923 the company switched to paper production. The name was Ungarische Lloyd Papierfabrik AG . Since this production was not successful either, the factory had to close in 1926.
Tibor Melczer returned as a lecturer and to the Technical University as Donáth Bánki's deputy . The aircraft designer died in 1936.
literature
- Csanadi, Nagyváradi, Winkler: A Magyar Repülés Története , 2. bővített kiádas, Budapest 1977
- Lamberton, WM Reconnaissance & Bomber Aircraft of the 1914–1918 War , Letchworth 1962
- Munson K .: Bomber 1914-1919 , Zurich 1968,
- Erwin Hauke, Walter Schroeder, Bernhard Tötschinger: The aircraft of the kuk aviation troops and sea pilots 1914-1918. H. Weishaupt, Graz 1988, 224 pages, ISBN 3-900310-46-7
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flight information 41. Volume IV / 1991 of the Austrian Aviation Archives Vienna f.3