Technikatörténeti szemle 17. (1988-89)

TANULMÁNYOK - Vámos Éva Katalin: The Hungarian Industry at teh Budapest Spring Fairs (1918–38)

lance positive. Thus the organizers paid great attention to attract visitors both by reduced train fairs and by allowing artisans and merchants to sell products in the Fairs (8). As already said, the organizers' aim was to show, on the Fairs, the development of Hungarian industry to foreign customers. They made statistics of the number of exhibitors and their numbers in the 18 main and 100 subgroups of the exhibitions, but these carefully hid what was really to be seen. If one carefully reads the address-book of the Fairs, it turns out that not even one L. LANG MASCHINENFABRIKS-A. BUDAPEST 56. (FAaWK

: V., VAOI-ÚT No. »»»,} Dampfmaschinen Dampfturbinen Die seiMo topen Komppcsioren Casmaschlr Dampfkessel looi Damplsp«ictiar 2. Many adverstisments were published in German in the catalogues ever since 1925 third of the exhibitors really represented industry (9). E. g., in 1932, out of 874 exhibitors only 265 plus 124 representatives of the food industry could be classified as industrial. The rest were 154 artisans; 123 exhibitors had needlework, folkloristic products to show, and 66 dealers came who, themselves, did not produce anything. The rest were engineers and engineering offices, artists, mainly goldsmiths, institutions and Hungarian representatives of foreign firms (10). Honorary agencies of the Fair were organized all over the world in a great number, from 1922 on; e.g., in 1930 there were some in as many as 29 countries, among them in 18 cities is Czechoslovakia, in 16 cities of Germany, in 10 cities of Roumania, but also in India, Egypt, the U.S.A. and Mexico (11). All kindes of reduced-ifair transportation possibilities were granted not only for Hungarian Railways, but for the majority of the railway companies of