A Közlekedési Múzeum Évkönyve 12. 1999-2000 (2001)

IV. RÉSZ • A Közlekedési Múzeum gyűjteményeiből 317 - Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló a Közlekedési Múzeum XII. Évkönyvéhez (magyar, angol, német nyelven) 367

of the road transport destroyed the traditional forms, the control and the property nexuses of the road transport system and established a new - according to its intent more effective - but in the reality a weaker and less organized strukture. The Author deals in his study with the organizational, labour and personal absurdities of the system of the 1950s on the basis of archive documents and personal researches splitting it up into the following subsections: Control of the road transport; Cadres in the road transport; The network of roads and the vehicle stock; The nationalizations; Use of cars; Freight and passenger transport on road. The excesses of the socialist bureaucracy and the "results" of marking time are revealed frankly in a critical tone. Dr. Sándor Domanovszkyi The Rebuilding Of The Mária Valéria Danube-Bridge At Esztergom. In the introduction of his study the Author reviews the history of bridges and within that the history of the Danube-bridges. Our foregoers discovered the significance of the roads and bridges, which are composing a close unity and as a consequence of that 6 bridges were built in Budapest till the turn of the century and altogether 16 on the territory of the historic Hungary till 1915. During World War II all of our Danubebridges were destroyed, but within 10 years all of them have been rebuilt, apart of the Mária Valéria bridge having been rebuilt just now and the Elisabeth bridge opened in 1964. In the following the Author makes aquainted with the history of the bridge at Esztergom built on the basis of János Feketeházv's designs and opened to the traffic in 1895. The span of the bridge on the Slovakian side had been blasted in the summer of 1919, its rebuilding took place by 1926 but the 3 spans in the middle of the bridge were blasted again in the winter of 1944. In September 1999 the prime ministers of Hungary and Slovakia signed a treaty concerning the rebuilding of the bridge. The ceremonial opening of the rebuilt bridge took place on the 11th October 2001. In the further part of his study the Author introduces the institutions and enterprises, which took part in the reconstruction and makes aquainted with the technological processes of the construction. Dr. Valéria Czene: The Source Collection Of The Special Literature Concerning The Environment Protection In The Transport (1979-1983). The Author compiled for the years 1979-1983 the collection of sources of the Hungarina and foreign technical literature concerning the transport related researches in connection with environment protection being a very significant part of the transport science and available in the library of the Transport Museum. The material has been arranged according the following viewpoints: books, articles of periodicals, foreign studies in Hungarian periodicals. Jolán Barkóczi: Railway Papers In The 19th Century. From the study we can learn that the paper "Scientific Collection" reported briefly on the first railways of Europe between 1817 and 1841. Despite of the fact that the designers and builders of the Hungarian railway constructions were not large railway companies with a seat in Hungary, the Hungarian public opinion has shown a great concern about the questions of railway politics. The Author introduces those railway papers in chronological sequence, which reported on the technical, operational and economical questions of the railway and of the railway people's conditions of life. The citations revive for the reader a number of problems of the first half century of the Hungarian railway, which reflected the circumstances, worries and happinesses. The writings make perceptibel the growing social tension, caused by the salary, the increase of the house-rent, the appropriateness of the uniform and working dress and waiting for settlement. The study demonstrates the difficulties in connection with the establishment of the first relif societies of railway employees. The founding of a viable railway paper met with the same difficulties, too, presumably because of the low cultural demands of the former railway people. At the beginning of the 20th century it became obvious that for a longer time - apart of the Official Gazette of the railway - only those papers could survive, which were ment for greater masses, although the edition of a number of railway papers was attempted at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. 379