The story of the bus factory in Sanok began in 1832, when Walenty Lipiński and Mateusz Beksinski – two participants of the Polish November Uprising – founded a small boiler plant. They both came from Koprzywnica near Sandomierz. After the fall of the uprising, they decided to settle in Sanok. They purchased a small manor house with outbuildings, where they established a small workshop. It produced boilers for distillery and brewery industry, growing in the area.

Soon, in addition to boilers and other everyday items, the workshop’s owners began to provide locksmith and blacksmith services.

Following Mateusz Beksiński’s death, Walenty Lipiński decided to hand over the workshop to his adult and educated son, Kazimierz. He, in turn, began to transform the workshop into a larger factory by building new production halls and warehouses.

Mateusz Beksiński

Walenty Lipiński

Initially, he formed a partnership with Czech industrialist Jan Schenk, whom he met during his studies in Prague, and who brought modern machinery to the plant. The company existed for a very short time, Kazimierz Lipiński paid off his partner and became the sole owner of the enterprise.

Thanks to his diligent efforts, the growing industrial plant received its first order for four freight wagons for Kraków. The high quality of the wagons resulted in numerous further orders. To meet them all, the company under the name “First Galician Join Stock Society for Construction of Wagon and Machines” was formed, and Kazimierz Lipiński became its CEO.

At the same time on the newly purchased land, a new factory was built. It is still located in this place today.

In 1900, the direct descendant of one of the company’s founders resigned from the position of general director. However, this fact did not stop the further dynamic development of the factory.