Since for some time'm pretty busy and this writing hobby postponed enough time, I decided to refresh the blog content with one new - old the article. This is an excerpt from my bachelor's thesis, which I defended in 2013 on 20 May, called car auctions los angeles "Mechanical engineering and metal Latvian car auctions los angeles 1920-1940". The theme also touched upon one of the brightest pages of Latvian automotive history - Factory "Shield" car assembly department. In the "Shield" is impossible to understand history without the history of a small Latvian vagonbuves report, then I added two successive subdivisions, which are subject to review "The Phoenix" vagonrūpnīcas and the same "shield" of history.
"Phoenix" entrance gate today's Liberty Street opposite the VEF, 20 years of photos. Wagon is one of the heavy industrial sectors of Latvian history which we can be justifiably proud. Latvian territory until 1915 there were two other major Russian Empire at the wagon factory: Russian-Baltic wagon factory and "Phoenix". The first was originally a Belgian-German company Zypen & Charlier branch, which was installed around 1869 years, but in 1870 factory was reorganized and when in the Russian Baltic wagon factory a / s disposal, and to World War II gained the reputation as the best Russian wagon factory. 19th century. 90 years of Industry car auctions los angeles of the Russian empire experienced a significant boom conditions which in 1895 founded another wagon factory in Riga - "Phoenix" Alexander the gate area, whose main shareholders were Petrograd Carriage Building Company. Demand for railway car auctions los angeles wagons at the time was so high that in some years the two Riga wagon factories worked to full capacity. In the summer of 1915, both factories were evacuated to Russia, Rybinsk Feniks came, but after the war, Soviet Russia refused to give up, although initially there was hope. For example, in March 1921 it can be found in the press news that supposedly has been made a promise reevakuēt Phoenix, however, until the end of the process was terminated "for lack of evidence." In turn, the factory premises starting with at least 1920 other half was held by Railway Central Board and they were installed in the national railway workshops. Workshop needs at that time worked in ironworks, which later, moving company, was taken to Daugavpils. car auctions los angeles In parallel car auctions los angeles with the restoration of the Phoenix were also interested in its former car auctions los angeles shareholders, and on 28 January 1922, the factory premises of the office Petersburg highway 14 (Freedom Street meant for the modern stage behind the Air Bridge. Later it was renamed the Vidzeme highway, then on Liberty Avenue.) Held the Extraordinary Shareholders car auctions los angeles general meeting, the first since the establishment of Latvian independence in which it was decided to attract foreign capital in the renewal of the operation, and elected a new Board. 1924 "Phoenix" built mail wagon interior (photo: http://dzelzcelamuzejs.blogspot.com) To restore the empty walls Phoenix production in the summer of 1922 was founded "Rigas connected metallurgical, locomotive, wagon and machine factory A / S ". Majority stake owned vagonbuves a / s Busch Bautzen, Germany, but between the main shareholders car auctions los angeles were the General German Credit Union in Leipzig, the former Petersburg Carriage Building Factory, Company St. Fromholds and Latvian citizens car auctions los angeles factories longtime engineer I. Gurvičs and director Fr. Kette. The share capital was 5.2 million. gold francs, or 251 million. Latvian rubles. At the beginning of 1923, factory was ready to work with new equipment. From 1925 year, it received a railway Central Administration coaches orders. For example, in the autumn of 1927, the Supreme Board of rail fee factory 60 new wagon orders. Along with LKOD which are also regularly held public wagon construction orders until 1928 it produced 135 Class II and III four-passenger vehicles. One of the 1925 - 1935 "Phoenix" to build coaches. One of them has been preserved and has been restored, now viewable Riga Railway Museum. Exhibit is clearly impressive and rightly considered as the museum's collections of pride. The company in 1931 employed car auctions los angeles 1,279 workers, which before the crisis was at the highest rate. At the end of 1932 the number of workers was only 376, but in 1933 about 250 workers. Since the USSR had run out of the huge orders, the number of employees who have already far exceeded the normal conditions necessary to cut. In 1931, owners of the company bought the Tallinn wagon factory A / S Eesti Dvigatel controlling stake by acquiring monopoly Baltic wagon industry. However, the conditions of the crisis years, it was not too favorable and ultimately the company's car auctions los angeles majority shareholder firm Busch bankrotēja.151 1934 Riga factory ordered 15 tram cars hauled car auctions los angeles by 11 000 Ls each. The first cars to use fee in January 1935, while the last - in March. By contrast, in early March factory car auctions los angeles open competition along with LKOD and society "Stars" won t
