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Historia zabudowań zajezdni przy ulicy Łazienkowskiej 8 w latach 1920–1975

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Dziubiński M.

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki

2021

vol. 66

issue 4

9–64

As a result of World War I, the Polish lands were severely destroyed, and the population was poor. The widespread poverty, supply problems, and high prices led to the establishment of the Warsaw Municipal Supply Facilities (Miejskie Zakłady Zaopatrzenia Warszawy/MZZW). The task of the MZZW fleet was to ensure the supply of food and essential goods to the poorest social groups. Thus, the municipality bypassed intermediaries and their high margins. The articles were distributed through a network of municipal stores. The article describes the history of the buildings at 8 Łazienkowska Street, erected over a hundred years ago, now no longer extant. It was one of the first facilities built by the Capital City of Warsaw shortly after regaining independence. The described complex of buildings was designed from scratch, as the first such facility in Warsaw, meant only for trucks and not for horse traction vehicles. The second owner of the described development was the Municipal Tram and Bus Company, which took over the depot along with the rolling stock. The change of ownership was caused by the seemingly unrelated crash of the New York Stock Exchange. Before the war, Warsaw buses were parked there, the fleet of which was growing rapidly. The defensive war in September 1939 and the occupation removed buses from the streets of Warsaw. After the war, the depot – destroyed in 45% during the Warsaw Uprising – was rebuilt, becoming a symbol of the new socialist Poland. Following the example of the cities of Soviet Russia, with the help of their specialists and trolleybuses, the same service was launched in Warsaw. The depot became the first public transport base to be rebuilt after the war. A trolleybus network plan for the city of Lublin was created within its walls. Before the buildings were demolished, it was once again briefly a bus depot, and, in the end, it played a somewhat important role in the construction of the Łazienkowska Route, becoming the construction base No. 5 for the aforementioned investment.

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Historia zabudowań zajezdni przy ulicy Łazienkowskiej 8 w latach 1920–1975