THE HISTORY OF TUNGSRAM 1896-1945 - MEK

TUNGSRAM 218The central executive and marketingoffices in 1930. Before movingto the new office building in 1962,the top management ran the affairsof the TUNGSRAM concernfrom these offices for roughly halfa-century.The main gate and the front viewof TUNGSRAM was left unchangedfor decades. Here we seethe female work-force-mostlyfrom the assembly lines-headingfor home at the end of the shift.Their clothes prove that the company'smoving to Ujpest was, indeed,an example of "rural industrialization".