GANZ RAILROAD CAR AND MACHINE SHOP, BUDAPEST

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 9, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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tlonat Detenem of the Uaited 8tatee, wlthln the mean-
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INFORMATION REPORT to or receipt bx an anauthorized Dereoa ie prohibited
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COUNTRY Hungary
REPORT
SUBJECT Qanz Railroad Car and Machine DATE DISTR. ~ >~rch 195$
Shop9 Hudapes~ 6
DATE OF INFO.
THE SOURC! EVALUATIONS IN THf3 RlPORi
THE APPRAISAL OP CONTlNf IS T!
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1. C4en?~ era!
TFie Ganz Railroad Car and Machine factory (Qanz Waggon ba abpgyalr) ie situated
at ?~2 Simor utca~8udapeat. Haring the war the factory Buffered from very oon-
eiderable bomb-damage which made the construction of new buildings inevi.tabls.
" The undertaking was considered one of the moat important in Hungary and so
the factory haB been constantly developed since the end of World War FI. T~
is planned to detach the manufacturing of engines into an independent plant.
2. Production -
The principal items produced by the Qanz Railroad Car and Machine Factory are:
a. DieBel electric rail oars (for narrerR, standard and broad gauge).
b. Static dieBel engineB
a. 'T13.eBel driven mine locomotives.
d. Passenger railroad carriages.
e. .Open and closed railroad freight cars.
f. Tank cars (the tanks are produced at the Ganz Shipyards,).
Steam and gaB turbi~les
h. Large ball mills.
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~ Q Presses f~o~? bank notes,
k a I3igh ' ~;apacity paFnsps (for irrigation plants )
l.o Miscellaneous large .machines (eoga for concrete works)o
rno Steep castings up to 500 kgo (for engines9 railroad carriages and oth~~?
machines and for base plates for guns and mortars)e
ra Protot,~rpes for underground engines and passenger carso
The value of the monthly production of the factory amounts to 60-65 m~.llion
t',~rint:~, Same 30~ of this is produced by this oar works9 20~ by the angina
~~orks9 ~O~ is machinery and 20~ foundry product9,
o Source4 ~s; S~~ plies
Mater~i.als are supplied to the Lanz Railroad Car and Machine Factory b;T almost
~~re~Y undea?taking and industry in the country, The iron and steel are provided
by the plsnts at l~zd and-Aichsgyl3r and by the mills at Borsodn~dasd and L~9rinco
Some of the materials such as cork and synthetic materials are obtained from
a~~sroa~d,
Deliver?~.es
Ninety percent of the factory?s products ars exportedo Industrial auth~r3.ties
attach a great deal of importance to the factory as a considerable pxw.~portio~:
cf i*.,;~ produots are sent to the Vest {Argentine9 Egypt)9 to the USSR and other
Sov~.,et blc~ coi~rstries o
5o I~athods of Transport
Deliva~?ies of raw materials to the factory and the dispatch of finished produots
are made by rails Only insignificant quantities are transported by roado
6, Production Difficulties
The factoa~ suffers from bath a shortage of raw materials and the defective
cguality o.f st,eels, isolating materials and paintso Faulty bluepriritm and i~~~
correct wo~?k pieces have also given much troubles Recently deliveries to the
USSR-have been held up by bearing metal swelling and ,jamming and by breakages
in pist~an rir~so Finished parts for railroad carriages frequently ha re to be
scrapped on account of loose metal finding its way between plates and on account
of unequal thickness of platese Seventy to $0~ of cylinder blacks for diesel
engines have had to be scrapped during the last three years, This last defect
is considered so serious that the minister himself has promised a personal
reward to any technician who can eliminate the defect which appears to be
~onneoted with the porosity of the finished cylinder blockse There are no
tr~.nspor$ problems as such9 but the testing of broad gauge cars has proved dif-
ficult as the stretches of Hungarian track do not normally allow sufficient
~learance~ f+cr these large vehicles and at times the track foundations are not
sufficiently strange
'~, Machine-Tool. Park
The total number of machine tools available is not known but during the past
f~aur years the machine-tool park has been greatly improved by a large number of
r~ew un~.ts received from Switzerland (MAAa) and Czechoslovakia and also a few
units from the USSR and Hungary. At present the machine-tool park is a very
mizeed loto A~pproxiiiiately 50% are old machines but their repair is well organizede
The forging and pressing machines are most effected by wear and tear and era in
the worst conditiono The general efficiency of the machines is approximately
._. 60~a 'The faotory.rsceived,an 8-toe electric furnace six years ago but this
furnace.-could only start working in 1953 as the~~had failed to deliver 25X1
car^~ain important partso
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io Sources of Power .
.inside the factory are driven by electricity; Forging and pressing are ate,
~t~tion~~ at33~cen~ to the works, -The majority of the machine tools and tranep~x~'u
'Electric current is supplied by the plants own transformer stationo'''~~t+=beak
drivmng-the steam being produced by the plant itself.
~o T~?sfo~?me~? plant (No, c~ Annex $).
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The. mesat vrtalnrrabYe points of the factory arcs
o $oilea? rpoms (Noso 13 and 37, Annex B~,
~o '~orkshops (Noso 27, 359 and 1~6, Annex B).
` ~.0, Personnel . .
ao Management
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Managerx Istv~n Nagy9
o Deputy Managers 3ebeaty~n Bakonyi, was formerly head of the Mini~tryfls
heavy Industry Directorate
The majority of the staff is not Communist. Many of the engineers and
other warkere have ~ro rked abroad and are therefore not fully trusted.
'~ Labor
The factory employs a staff of approximately 6,000. At present the
technical standard of both and skilled workers and the cleriaal staff is
lour. The world famous skilled workers and technicians of Qans have bean
d~apersed all over tha country being either officially transferred or
diarriiaaed on some pretext or o~her. There are many former Oan~ workers
on the staff of the Ministry of Metallurgy and Machine Industries and in
the various planning bodies.
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Annexes (A~ flans Railroad Car'and Machine factory (1 page),
(H) Layout of the fa?tory (2 pages, including the legend).
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K~t~~.nyai ~:t
Ganz Railroad Car and Machine Factory
Budapest X9 Simor utca Lt2
Ma.~rag Locomotive. and
Machine. Factory
Go1~;zta i;br
Railroad track or "industrial" (narrow gauge) track.
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Ganz Railroad Car ~ ~?
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~rne:~ U~ La~ut of the- Ganz Railroad Car Factory
N~ et
Kiin~ves Kalman k8rut
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Legend to Annex B, depicting the layout of the Ganz Railroad Car and Machine
Factory, Budapests
;~.~ Main entrance (wgrkmen and motor vehicles).
~, Munioi~al transformer station.;>'
~3o Central office building (completed in 1953, 11 stories, large ARF shelter
below}.
P~, Rail gars assembly hall.
Bail cars workshops management.
-, , Offices (bookkeeping)
`~. Rail car construction, offices.
8. Former meter factory, now office on the second floor, tool shop on
the first floor, pressing shop in the basement.
9. Bicycle room, parking place.
-1.0. Iron foundx?y~,.
~,~., Tndustria~ technical school, workers' school.
1~. Offices, photostats, foundry samples-store.
L3. Boiler morn.
1~a Trades Union office, offices.
~~. Food depot, library, concert hall.
1~6. Garage.
'Y'; , Party office.
'~.8 o Refrigerator shop.
~-9. .Freight oar assembly plant.
~~0. Mine locomotive assembly plant.
~1. Central affices, technical quality control (MF:0).
~2o Large transporting trolley.
~3o Passenger car assembly plant.
~~Co Machine-tool repair shop.
~5. Upholstcrers? and leatherware-makers' shop.
boo Carpenters' workahop. -
~~. Diesel engine finishing shop.
28p Diesel engine testing hall.
gig, Packing and transport depot.
30. Diesel ervgine assembly hall (comple ted in 192.)
~~.. No. 3 entrance, far transports of material only.
j2. Metal finishing shop.
33. Small transporting trolley.
31~. Central steel depot for "profile" materials.
3s. La~?ge engine finishing and assembly plant (called ~Nagybeton".
3G. Steel foundry.
3";p Central boiler room.
38. Pint shop.
39. Railroad car locksmiths' workshop.
~.Oe Railroad car finishing shop.
~l. Undercarriage workshop.
~.2. Blacksmiths' workshop (completed in 1953)?
~3o Foundry mataria~. storeroom (sand, coke, etc.).
~~.o Na. 2 entrance, workers' entrance and transports of materials.
~~. Offices on the ss~and floor, carpenters' (mould makers' } workshop
an th~? first floar~H
L~6o Cogwheel finishing workshop.
?~.~. Car assembly plant (completed in 1953)?
~.8o Scrap iron depot and breaking up plant.
P.~q. Plate depot.
~0. Wood depot.
yl. Apprentices' workshop (MTH school, not belonging to the works).
5~'o Coal de~pi~t..~
~3. Inc3.ustrial (narrow gauge) rail tracks.
51~. Refreshment room and grocery shop (not belonging to the works).
55. Residential area. -
56. General school.
~~, Church.
~8. Mavag '~p:rofile~ .irons and plates depot.
~9. Mavag settlement.
6O. Living quarters.
61. Streetcar stops.
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