LOCOMOTIVES AND ROLLING-STOCK INDUSTRY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004700620006-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2007
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 21, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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This material contains information affecting the Na-
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and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
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Hungary
Locomotives and Rolling-
Stock Industry
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 21 September 1954
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Up to September 1953, Hungary?s locomotive and rolling-stock industries were
under the control of the Ministry of Metallurgy and Mechanical Industry, Direc-
torate of the Vehicle Industries.
2. The official designation of the Directoratei_ e.g.,"of.the Vehicle Industries"
is a misleading term for a group of industries, the chief lines of which are
locomotives, rolling stock, and their components, but which in actual fact
produces a much wider range of products as shown below:
a, Steam locomotives,
b. Diesel-electric rail cars, switch engines, etc*
ce Passenger coaches, freight cars, tank cars, etc.
d, Steam cranes, mechanical handling equipment,, etc.
e. Stationary diesel and gasoline engines, marine engines, outboard motors, portable
cmpressors, pumps, steam and gas turbine89 etce
f. Medium and heavy bridges, military girder bridges,
g. Artillery ammunition.
3. ,.The following plants formed the group of industries concerned:
a, The Hungarian Railroad Car and Machine Factory (Mavag) in Budapest with 9,500
employees, which produced steam engines, locomotives, heavy steel bridges, military
girder bridges, pumps, compressors, steel sections of all kinds, artillery
ammunition,etc.
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b. The Ganz Railroad Car and Machine Factory (Gemz Vagn is Gipgy4r) in Budapest
,with 6,000 employees9which produced diesel-electric rail-cars, static diesel
engines, passenger railway coaches, tank cars, steam and gas turbines, pumps,
miscellaneous large machines, etc. 90% of the factory's products were exported.
C. The-Wilhelm Plieck Railroad Car Works (VaglngyLr in Gy&, with 6,000 mnployeesi
which produced passenger railway coaches, railway cars, electric fork tracks,
railway steam cranes and other cranes, medium heavy bridges, machinery and
plant of all kinds,. etc.
d. Stmill Motors Factory (Egyedi Kismotorgyar) in Budapest with 1,600 employees,,
which produced stationary gasoline and crude oil engines, marine engines for
small craft, outboard motors..
e. Dnnakeszi Railroad Car Factory, Dunakeszi.
About 1,200 employees worked at the factory. This plant has in the past been
a railway-car repair shop and is now being converted to a railway-car factory.
It is scheduled to go into full operation in 1955, when the pi'bduction of Ganz
diesel-electric rail cars and trains is to be transferred to this plant, while
the Ganz Railroad Car Factory will continue to produce the electric motors and
undercarriages.
f. Vehicle Equipment Factory (Jarmufelszerelesek (yira)in Budapest.
g. Szentendre Carts Factory, Szentendre.
It produced carts and wagons for the Hungarian Army,which still uses horse-
drawn supply columns. There were.-150 employees.
4. The following products were exported.-
a. Diesel-electric rail cars, stationary diesel engines, etc. to the Satellites,
b. Railroad cars, passenger railroad coaches, steam cranes, bridges, electric
fork trucks to the USSR, Satellites, and China.
c. Pumps, steam and gas turbines, etc.
d. Steen-locomotive s to. the USSR, Poland
stationary steam engines to 25X1
e. Small stationary crude-oil and gasoline engines to Rumania, Bulgaria, Poland,
China, and the USSR.
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