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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).
This section of the motorway is fully operational and is composed of two segments: Bucharest – Pitești and Pitești bypass. The Bucharest – Pitești segment (95.9 km) is the first motorway class road built in Romania and remained the only one for more than 15 years, until the completion of the Fetești – Cernavodă segment on the A2 motorway in 1987.
The ARAD is an assault rifle visually similar to the AR-15, [2] though it uses a short-stroke gas piston, rather than the direct impingement system seen in the AR-15. [3] It is chambered in either 5.56×45mm NATO or .300 AAC Blackout and is designed to be modular, allowing a change of caliber through a quick-change barrel. [4]
A târg was a medieval Romanian periodic fair or a market town.Originally established on the places where periodic fairs were held, some of them (but not all) became permanent settlements, [1] as craftsmen built their workshops near the place where the fair was held.
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]
Șagu (Hungarian: Németság, German: Segenthau) is a commune in Arad County, Romania, is situated on the Vingăi Plateau and it stretches over 10266 hectares. It is composed of five villages: Cruceni ( Temeskeresztes ; Kreuzstätten ), Firiteaz ( Féregyház ), Fiscut ( Temesfűzkút ), Hunedoara Timișană and Șagu (situated at 15 km from ...
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.
Following a severe downturn in rail wagon orders due to economic depression, Astra Vagoane Arad, Meva and Romvag Caracal became insolvent in 2010, and they were re-organised in 2012 as 'Astra Rail Industries'. [13] MSV Metals Studénka also entered insolvency in 2011, [14] [15] it was acquired by JET investment in 2013. [16]