Drasche Co.: Hungary

Kobanyai, Budapest, Hungaria

The factory was founded in 1846 by Henry Drasche through the expansion of 41 brick factory. The production included bricks, roof tiles and ceramic paving bricks. Clearly they made insulators as examples exist and they were mentioned with a date of 1911 as being a supplier of insulators for Hungary over the last couple decades. During WWII in 1944 the factory took a serious hit by a bomb. After the war, under the Soviet command, production resumed and in 1949 it was nationalized as the Drasche NV Porcelain Factory and a few months later was named Kobanyai brick factory. You will also see reference as Kobanyai Porcelangyar for this company. If you have additional information on this company, please contact me.

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