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The A11 motorway (Romanian: Autostrada A11) is a partially built motorway in north-western part of Romania, planned to connect the cities of Arad and Oradea.As of January 2022, the only operational segment is a 3.5-kilometre (2.2 mi) section from Arad West Interchange to DN7 (Arad North), known as the Arad Bypass (Romanian: Centura Arad).
The county's capital, Arad, was the location of Romania's first automotive factory. During the 1920s, Astra cars and commercial vehicles were made at Arad. [8] ASTRA Arad manufactured automobiles from 1922 to 1926. [9] The factory had an output of 2 automobiles per working day as of 1922. [10]
1937 – Arad was the most important economic center in Transylvania and occupied the fourth position in Romania [citation needed] 1980s – Astra Arad was Europe's largest manufacturer of freight cars. 1989 – Arad was the second town in Romania to rise against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu, with considerable violence.
The automobiles manufactured in Arad was a licensed production of Westinghouse 150 cars from 1909 to 1912. In 1912 the plant was taken over by Austro-Daimler and renamed to MARTA, the acronym for Hungarian Automobile Joint-stock Company Arad (Hungarian: Magyar Automobil Részvény Társaság Arad).
The construction of the first motorway in Romania began in 1967, and the first segment of the A1 motorway, from Pitești to the capital Bucharest was opened in 1972 with a total length of 96 km. During the building of this motorway, a general plan was released in 1969, detailing the building of motorways in the incoming years, however, due to ...
During the Communist period, Romania was one of the largest automobile producers in Central and Eastern Europe, however the industry declined after the 1989 revolution. Previously, other domestic manufacturers such as Tractorul Braşov, ARO and Oltcit existed, however they eventually went bankrupt due to botched privatization in the 1990s.
People from Arad, Romania (2 C, 56 P) Pages in category "Arad, Romania" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
ROCAR was also affected by competition of two new Romanian manufacturers of busses, trolleybuses and light weight transport vehicles, the same profile of ROCAR: ASTRA BUS ARAD, a new Romanian bus and trolleybus manufacturer, under IRISBUS and Grivbus – another new Romanian bus and light weight transport vehicles manufacturer. They took some ...