Due to its simple access to the railway itself, the area around the railway station, built in 1882, became a suitable place for industrial premises. The first “factory” which was built here, in 1888, was the mechanical weaving mill of the Egger brothers, situated to the north of the railway station near the road to Nedošín. After it was shut down in 1940, the premises were used by Bakocel, a metal working company owned by Josef Blažek and run, from 1946, by his co-worker Vladimír Vlček. Within the framework of the so-called Two-year plan for the economic recovery of Czechoslovakia (1947-1948), a new owner took over and transferred the production of metal furniture from Prague to the premises. The new company was called Drina and had a new production plant built in place of the original Egger textile mill.
The architectonic design of the building's exterior was still influenced by inter-war Functionalism. The two-storey building with a rectangular floor plan featured a smooth, purist facade and generously sized windows. The delicate-looking building, completed in 1947, thus became one of the last local buildings to which this architectonic style, generally popular in Czechoslovakia, was applied (see also the apartment blocks from the so-called Two-year-plan period in Masaryk Quarter – 04-788).
At the beginning of 1948, the company was nationalized and renamed Národní správa firmy Drina, ing Vlček Litomyšl. Later, it became part of the national enterprise Radovan in Prague and subsequently, n. p. Kovona Praha (1949), n. p. Kovopol Police nad Metují (1950) and finally n. p. Juranovy závody in Brno (1957). Understandably, the changes in use necessitated a wide range of modifications within the premises themselves, which included many smaller buildings and store rooms.
Presently, the premises are being used by a company producing hydraulic automobile lifts and other equipment. Recent reconstruction work has obliterated the original, purist appearance of the main production building, but did however retain the original layout of the large-scale windows. A discount supermarket has been built in the south-east section of the premises.
