Ungarische Lloyd Flugzeug- und Motorenfabrik

The automotive company Ungarische Lloyd Automobil- und Motorenfabrik AG , founded on January 27, 1913, changed its field of activity to a less unprofitable business more than a year later (in April 1914), and its name changed to Ungarische Lloyd Flugzeug- und Motorenfabrik AG .

Her head office was in Budapest , and production facilities were located north of Budapest, in a former prison in Asoda .

Already on May 8, 1914, she began to produce airplanes. The general director was reserve lieutenant colonel Heinrich Beer . It was he who in the same year set four world altitude records in Aspern on the first aircraft manufactured in Hungary, the Lloyd LS-1 . ^{[1] The} technical director was Tibor Meltzer from Budapest Technical University .

As a sample of one of the models, the DFW BI aircraft was chosen, manufactured by Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke (DFW), the details and drawings of which were delivered to Asod. It was supposed to use it in the Air Force of Austria-Hungary . The situation was complicated by the fact that Lloyd did not produce engines.

In connection with the outbreak of war, the company was constantly expanding; new workshops were being built in Asoda. Their area covered about six yohs (approximately 3.5 hectares).

Near the plant was an airfield with a one kilometer runway. For employees were built workers and residential huts, a market. In peacetime, the construction of cottages was planned.

One type of aircraft - Lloyd C - was produced throughout almost the entire war (a total of 287 aircraft; 1915: 32 units, 1916: 65, 1917: 84, 1918: 104).

In accordance with the Trianon treaty signed at the end of the war, the construction of aircraft in Hungary was prohibited, so the company had to change its profile again; at first it was the production of furniture and body parts, and since 1923 - the production of paper (under the brand name Ungarische Lloyd Papierfabrik AG ). She failed to achieve success, and in 1926 the company finally closed.

Tibor Meltzer returned as a deputy professor Donat Banki as a teacher at the Technical University. In 1936 he died.

• 40.05, also Typ FJ (1916) fighter, a biplane with a 160-horsepower engine Austro-Daimler AD 6. 1 prototype;
• 40.08, also (LV, Luftkreuzer II), 1916, three-engine heavy bomber. 1 prototype;
• 40.15 (1917 or 1918), a fighter;
• 40.16 (1918) fighter, 1 prototype;
• Lloyd CI (DFW MD) (1914/15) 1 prototype and 12 serial with a 145-horsepower Hiero engine;
• Lloyd C.II (III) (1914) scout, Hiero engine manufactured by MARTA 287 units;
• Lloyd CV (1917) scout. About 70 copies produced by Lloyd and approximately the same WKF

1. ↑ Flug-Information 41. Jahrgang IV / 1991 des österreichischen Luftfahrtarchivs Wien f.3

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