Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1997
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demand for concrete conduits rose rapidly. Several stages in the manufacturing process were mechanized, to combat the constant shortage of labour. The golden age for the unit was in the 1960s, when the machines for making concrete pipes were worked in three shifts. These products became superfluous when the technology changed to an underground system using plastic pipes. So the machines were altered to make bunching elements and collars. The many legal and organizational changes at the founding institution, the Postal Central Cable Works, did not essentially alter the unit’s organization or range of activities. Only when the postal subsidiaries were converted into limited companies did it become a separate factory. In-house manufacture of concrete elements ceased on June 30,1998, due to modernization of the product structure. That concluded 47 years of operation at the Concrete Block-Making Works. The site remains in use as a storage base for concrete elements obtained from outside firms. Ildikó Orbán Solnay: A short history of the Adria line The Hungarian government took over responsibility for maritime affairs from Vienna in 1871. Hungarian coastal shipping was still largely powered by sail. An important part in the services from Fiume (Rijeka) was played by the Austrian Lloyd line, which also provided Eastern services for Hungary under a contract signed on November 18, 1871. However, the development of Hungary’s commerce required a domestic shipping company that would be free of all foreign influence and serve Hungary’s interests alone. That was the intention of the Hungarian government when signed a contract in 1880 with the Adria Steamship Company, which consisted of British and Austrian steamship owners. The company undertook to form a Hungarian public limited company by the end of 1884 at the latest. In the event, the Adria Hungarian Maritime Shipping Company was founded on December 21, 1881. On December 31, 1891, the Hungarian government ended the shipping and mail contract it had concluded with Austrian Lloyd in 1888. Nonetheless, it wanted to remain on good times with the line. In February 1891 it had concluded a contract under which the services of Austrian Lloyd and the Adria line were to be available to both states, without additional subsidies. The business was divided so that Austrian Lloyd served the East and Indo-China, while Adria catered for the West, including North and West Africa and North America. The two lines shared the Brazilian route, with six sailings each a year. Under the contract that Minister Gábor B aross concluded with Adria in 1891, the state subsidy was raised to 5,700,000 korona. In return, the line undertook to purchase 15 new vessels and changed its name to the Adria Royal Hungarian Maritime Shipping Company. It also committed itself to 21 sailings a year with its own ships, and to making Fiume (the sole Hungarian port) the starting point or destination of every voyage. In addition, Adria undertook to increase its fleet of ten vessels by two steamships during 1891, and equip the second of these for passengers as well. It would then add 13 steamers to its fleet in the next two years, followed by a further five in another ten years. The line recognized that if called upon to do so by the minister of war, it would have to 267
