1950 PLAN EMPHASIZES INCREASED TRUCK OUTPUT

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 667
• Publication Date: May 5, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
SUBJECT Economic; Technological - Automobile and
HOW tractor industry
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The automobile and tractor industry is going into 1950 with a record
of notable achievements both in respect to production and the application
of new techniques. Output in 1949 increased 40 percent in comparison with
1948, the rise coming mainly in new-type cars. The output of passenger
cars was tripled and that of tractors increased 14 times. Particular suc-
cess was achieved in the production of Diesel tractors. In the fourth quar-
ter of 1949, the Kharkov and Stalingrad Tractor plants converted to manu-
facture of the Dt-54 tractor, at the same time ceasing the production of
the SKhTZ-NATI. For the first time in the history of tractor manufacturing,
the changeover was accomplished without halting production.
Production of bearings showed an over-all increase, with a particularly
sharp rise in the output of large-dimension and precision bearings.
The Yaroslavl' and Minsk Automobile plants designed and produced new
models of trucks and dump trucks of 10 tons and more. The Gor'kiy Automo-
bile Plant imeni Molotov designed and built a new passenger car, the ZIM,
which falls in a class between the Pobeda and ZIS-110. Models of a 5-ton
truck have been successfully tested.
Despite the completion of the plan in general and the over-all increase
in production, the Yaroslavl', Minsk, and Kutaisi Automobile plants, the
Lipetsk Tractor Plant, the State Bearing Plant No 8, and the Kiev and Irbit
Motorcycle plants failed to fulfill their year plans.
The 1950 plan calls for increase in production of all important types
of vehicles. The output of new models will constitute 80 percent of the
total. Production of GAZ-51 trucks will increase 90 percent; YaZ-200 trucks,
more than 100 percent; NAZ-205 dump trucks, more than 100 percent; GAZ-93,
60 percent; and the Moskvich, 50 percent.
In 1950, operations at the Moscow Automobile imeni Stalin must reach a
state of complete automatization.
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The Gor'kiy Plant imeni Molotov will increase its production of GAZ-;l
trucks and Pobedas. It must also lay the groundwork for the industrial pro-
duction of ZIM cars. The necessary molds, tools, and attachments for manu-
facture of the new model must be made by the plant itself.
The 0orikly Autobus Plant, in collaboration with the Plant imeni Molotov,
is to produce busses based on the GAZ-51.
The Moscow Low-Power Automobile Plant must increase considerably the out-
put of Moskviches and expand its production potential not less than 35-40
cent. per-
The Ural'sk Automobile Plant imeni Stalin will increase its production
of ZIS-5 gas-generator trucks and motors.
The Ulyanovsk Plant must meet production schedules, increase its range
of products, cut down its dependence on the Gor'kiy Automobile Plant, and ex-
pand its own potential.
L.e Yaroslavl' and Minsk Automobile plants must increase their production
potential and put out more heavy freight trucks.
Tractor plants must increase their output, particularly of the Kirovets
D-35 tractors (Lipetsk Tractor Plant) and the D-34 (Stalingrad and Kharkov
Tractor Plants).
In 1950, the first experimental group of electric tractors will be pro-
duced. Greater application will be made of the following techniques: anode-
mechanical method of treating cutting tools, forming
duty machine presses, the use of parts which haen of
rolforged led by ather
than section mills, stretching pilger rather
heats ng and cold stamping of races, and high-production
ng of parts prior to stamping, i.e., heating by electric contact and
high-frequency currents. Automatic-transfer machine lines for machining major
bulky parts will be installed .et the new plants. The checking of mass-pro-
duced parts at bearings plants will be made more automatic.
The integration of new techniques is expected to result in a reduction
of labor-consumption as follows: ZIS-150, 19 percent; GAZ-51 and Moskvich,
15 percent; Pobeda, 20 percent; and Kirovets D-35 tractor, 35 percent.
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