A Közlekedési Múzeum Évkönyve 10. 1896-1996 (1996)

V. RÉSZ • A Közlekedési Múzeum filiáléi 317 - Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló, előzetes közlemények (magyar, angol, német nyelven) 363

occassion of the millenium celebrations in 1896. He introduces the contemporary shipyards, shipping companies, which demonstrated their models and other objects on the millenium exhibition, and after closing the exhibition they handed over the material to the Museum. The list issued by the Museum in 1910 contained a significant amount of original outfittings, industrial drawings, maps and 118 shipmodels and half models. Beside the objects of the inland navigation the remembrances of the maritime navigation were present, too. The collection increased from 1910 till World War II scarcely only. As a result of the air-raids in 1944 the complete shipping collection was destroyed with the exception of several original objects. After the war the elaboration of the history of the Hungarian inland navigation has been set as the aim, beside elaborating the general development of shipping. All these required the building of models. In case of the shipping the scale of M = 1:50 proved to be acceptable. Later on, after puting to sea ocean liners of large size it became necessary to modify the scale to M = 1:100. From the original steamers the larg steamship, called Kossuth could be saved for the succeeding generations. This ship has been transformed into a museum ship and as such it can be visited by the public (more details can be found in an other paper of our Annual). In the further part of his paper the Author informs about the relation between the Museum, the shipping companies and the plants, the present situation of stores and about shipping exhibitions of greater significance. Attila Szabó introduces in the preface of his paper "The Aviation History and Space Travel Collection of the Transport Museum" those Hungarian institutions - besides the Museum which are in possession of aviation history collections. He informs about the formation of the Museum's collection. The Museum received most of the original aircrafts, main units and parts free of charge from the operators (MALÉV, MHSZ = Hungarian National Defence Association, Agricultural Air Service, etc). In many cases the operators carried out the renewals and repairs, too. All these are the results of the good relation between the Museum and the operators. In the further part of his paper the Author provides a brief review on the history of development of aviation and on the aircraft manufacturing in Hungary. He reports that in the Museum the aviation branch is split into three parts: collection of powered aircrafts (aerostats), collection of space travel and collection of not powered aviation. The collections have an up-to-date computer aided registration system. The permanent exhibition of aviation in the Petőfi Hall opened on the 22nd October, 1985 (more details can be foun in an other paper of the Annual). After introducing several aircrafts of outstanding museum significance even in international respect he reports on the open-air museum at the airport Ferihegy, which can accomodate original air-liners, on the state of restoring and on several seasonal exhibitions concerning aviation history. Dr.

László Eperjesi: "The Archives". Since its establishment the Transport Museum keeps archival material beside the collections of objects, too, as it can be learned from the first list issued in 1910. The millenium exhibition was decorated by a lot of maps, drawings, paintings and pictures. Although the founders of the Museum didn't consider the establishment of special archives, but they regarded as important the collection of drawings, maps and other documents. The archival materials were separeted from the exhibition of objects in 1908 only. From the paper we can learn, which materials belong to the stock of the Archives. The arrangement of this varied materials into groups was carried out in the 1960s only. Following that, the Author writes about the enlargement, elaboration and listing of the collection, and draws attention to several maps, paintings and licences of especial value. As a curio he mentions the yellowish- brown picturs taken in 1861, showing the vehicles of the former Tiszavidéki Railway. These pictures are significant not only in respect of transport history, but they count as a photographic rarity as well. 380