Both authors of this book have been researching the nearly one and a half centuries of the manufacture
of railway vehicles oat Ganz for many decades. The results of this research work are numerous books,
several studies, articles and papers presented. The latest fruit of their joint work is this album, reviewing
the outstanding archievements of the first decades in the railway vehicle business of the Company of World-Fame.
It is a true success story, with 75.000 vehicles in a 50 year period, with pasenger carriages, luggage vans,
postal cars, freight wagons for various duties, tank wagons, saloon cars, the royal train, d.c. and a.c. electric
locomotives and railcars, mining locomotives, urban trams, internal combustion and steam motor cars,
snow ploughs, draisines, and road vehicles for postal and military purposes.
The book makes the reader acquaninted with the pasta ages with 750 plans, photos, and tables, based
on archive researches in Hungary and in other countries.Due to the activity of Ganz, the Royal Hungarian State
Railways and other joint stock railways in Hungary could avoid the import of rolling stock by the end of the
19th Century, and gradually the products of the Company became the most wanted export products of Hungary.
Due to the increased interest abroad in the subject, the Introduction, the Summary, the summaries of each Chapter
and all captions are available also in English.
Big size: 300 x 215 mm, 446 pages.
