SOLVED: si_656 - Westinghouse - 40 HP - from MARTA, Arad (H) - 1910

[Bill d isere]

CH

[ropat53]

Mack from Scandinavia?

[sichel]

Ne.ither Switzerland, nor Mack or Scandinavia.

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Spain

[sichel]

No

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Belgium

[sichel]

No.

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Eastern Europ

[ropat53]

Austria?

[sichel]

Eastern Europ: Yes
Austria: No.

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Hungary

[sichel]

Yes!!

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Mavag

[sichel]

No.

[ropat53]

Rába?
1908 Westinghouse truck made at the MARTA factory (Magyar Automobil Részvény Társaság Arad) in Arad.

[sichel]

Rába?
1908 Westinghouse truck made at the MARTA factory (Magyar Automobil Részvény Társaság Arad) in Arad.

Yes!! Very good job 
However, I have a different year of manufacture and the type designation (as power) is missing.
Locked for ropat53

[ropat53]

1910 40hp?

[sichel]

Yes, and yet another point.

[ropat53]

Thank you for the point?

[pnegyesi]

Magyar Automobil Rt Westinghouse-rendszer (Hungarian Automobile Ltd Westinghouse-system) was set up in 1908 in the city of Arad. It was using licence from the French subsidiary of Westinghouse and the French company even had a stake in the factory. There is precious little known about the early history of the factory until 1911 when it went bankrupt. There were probably a few dozen vehicles built, including the truck pictured using French parts. In 1911 the factory went bankrupt and was saved by a Hungarian rubber company. It was renamed to MARTA (Magyar Automobil Rt Arad - Hungarian Automobile Ltd Arad). Westinghouse was out. Trucks became the mainstay of the company, licence of a 5 ton chassis from Daimler was bought in Germany. Passenger cars were also built based on the old Westinghouse design.
There are many, many myths surrounding this company, including a very recent project by the mayor's office in Arad building a modern recreation of a double-decker bus which was "made in Hungary" - in reality the bus was made in France by Westinghouse and supplied to Arad before the Hungarian factory was completed.

[sichel]

Many thanks for this background informations.