Adolf Törngren Tampereen liikenneyhteyksien kehittäjänä

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• Mikko Kylliäinen

Abstrakti

Adolf Törngren, developer of traffic communications of Tampere

Tampere was the most industrialized town in the 19th-century Finland. Its location was beneficial for the industry because of the available water power. However, the traffic connections from inland to the coast were not the best possible. Factories used mainly horses for transport, but this method was not the most reliable to deliver goods to the clients. In Finland, a significant part of the product prices consisted of haulage. That is why factory directors in Tampere had a great interest in developing traffic communications. The leading figure in this was Adolf Törngren (1824&ndash 1895), the founder of Tampere linen factory. He participated in the discussion about traffic connections of Tampere both as a member of Parliament of the Grand Duchy of Finland and in many other ways. He also developed traffic communications at his own expense: he financed and operated the first steamship line from Tampere to the south. The article discusses the motivation, the goals and the achievements of Adolf Törngren as adeveloper of traffic communications of Tampere.