NEW OIL FILTER GETS MASS-PRODUCTION OKAY; PASSENGER CAR SALES GROW

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• Publication Date: December 22, 1950
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CENTRAL INTELLIGE CY REPORI
INFORMATION' FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY' USSR
SUBJECT Economic; Technological - Automobile, tractor.
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DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily
newspapers; monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED" USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 23 Apr - 1 Sep 1950
LANGUAGE Russian
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SOURCE Newspapers and periodical as indicated.
NEW OIL FILTER GETS MASS-PRODUCTION OKAY;
PASSENGER CAR SALES,GROW
. FILTER WAITED 2 YEARS FOR GREEN LIGHT -- Moscow, Trud, 23 Apr 50
The ASFO oil filter, designed by the Regotmass office, has gone into mass
production. This filter, which protects motors from formation of carbon and
tars, and prolongs the useful life of oil, was sharply criticized in certain
articles appearing in Trud in 1948. The satisfactory performance of the filter
has since proved that the criticisms were entirely unfounded.
CARS SALES BOOM IN TBILISI -- Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 25 Aug 50
The Tbilisi store of Glavavtotraktorosbyt is doing a fine ,business in pa.-
senger cars. During the first 10 days of August,?194 Moskviches were sold. On
23 August during the course of 3 hours, 46 Pobeda convertibles were sold.
Since the begining of 1950 the store has sold a total of 1,628 Moskviches and
Pobedas.
Moscow, Izvestiya, 24 Aug 50
The Dne epetrovsk specialized store of the-Main Admi.nist_ation for Sale of
Automobiles and Tractors has sold 557 cars this year. Of these, 175 were Pobaduc?
Miners from Krivoy Rog alone bought 80,Pobedas and Moskviches.
Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 26 Aug 50
Since the end of 1949, when the Karaganda Automobile Store opened, over 4;X)
people have bought private cars of the Pobeda or Moskvich type, and several hundred
motorcycles have been sold.
At present the store is selling cars at the rate of 10-14 per day.
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PERSONNEL DOWN, PRODUCTION UP -- Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 23 Aug 50
Production at the Moscow Second State Bearings Plant is now 70 percent above
the 1941 level. There are fewer people working in the plant than there were at
that time.
The plant's aim is to double its prewar output.
SAYS FIVE-YEAR PLAN TARGET WILL BE MET -- Moscow, Irasnyaya Zvezda, 25 Aug 50
Soviet Army men of the Baltic Military District recently heard a lecture on
the progress in the automobile industry. Posters were ahowL illustrating the rise
in production from 4,000 cars in 1929-1930 to 200,000 cars at the end of the Second
Five-Year Plan. During 195.0, the speaker said, 500,000 vehicles. would roll off
the assembly lines of Soviet plants. Phis is the official target figure for 1950
published in the Five-Year Plan_7
MOSCOW SERVICE FACILITIES INADEQUATE -- Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 23 Aug 50
Moscow has very few service stations, and equipment at the existing stations
is entirely inadequate. Neither the Ministry of Motor Transport RSFSR nor the RSFSR
Automobile Servicing Trust has given sufficient attention to the development of
service stations.
LITHUANIA TO GET MODERN REPAIR PLANT -- Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 24 Aug 50
The Ministry of State Farms Lithuanian SSR is building an automobile and
tractor repair plant in the city of Radvilishkis. Shops for heat treatment, as-
sembly, machining, and motor testing have.been laid out.
The plant has received metal-cutting machine tools of the latest type from
sister republics. Many of these tools have already been installed. The test stands
have also received brand new equipment. Two conveyers are being set up in the
motor shop.
By the end of 1950 the motor shop will go into action. The plant will repair
tractors and trucks for sovkhozes, kolkhozes, and MTS of the Lithuanian Republic.
14Ai s 6,000 AXLES FROM WASTE -- Yerevan, Kommunist, 25 Aug 50
By using what was formerly waste material from the manufacture of shafts for
the ZIS-5 truck, the Yerevan Avtodetal' Plant has been able to make 6,000 GAZ-AA
truck axles. These have been placed in stock.
MINSK PLANT CALLS FOR SPECIALISTS -- Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 26 Aug 50
The Minsk Tractor Plant needs trained mechanical engineers, design engineers,
engineer-technologists, foundry engineers, heat-treatment engineers, construction
engineers, thermodynamics engineers, engineer economists; experienced chief and
senior bookkeepers; skilled tool-up men, turners, drilling-machine operators, fitters,
assemblers, molders, electricians, sto'iers, and porters. Apply at the personnel.
department, Minsk Tractor Plant, Promyshlennaya ulitsa, 7, Minsk.-- Advertisement
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COUNCIL TO SUPERVISE QUALITY IN CARBURETOR PLANT -- Leningradskaya Pravda, 25 Aug 50
At the Stakhanovite Moscow Carburetor Plant, a perrsnent council for the super-
vision of quality in production has been established. It includes engineers, de-
signers, checkers, and Stakhanovite workers. It holds regular meetings devoted to
improving the quality of products and eliminating rejects.
The plant is already operating under the 1951 production schedule and has
eliminated production losses. The measuring, metallographic, and chemical labora-
tories are eqi ipped with precision instruments which make it poesible to ascertain
rapidly the quality of heat and mechanical processing of products.
ZIS CASTING SHOP LEADS AUTO INDUSTRY -- Mekhanizatsiya Trudoyemkikh i Tyazhelykh
Rabat, No 9) Sep 50
One of the largest shops in the Moscow Automobile Plant imeni Stalin is that
in which parts for automobiles, buses, and other vehicles are cast from grey iron.
The range of parts cast includes many dozens of items, among them transmission and
clutch housings, cylinder blocks, intake and exhaust manifolds, flywheels, brake
drix , and elements of the ignition, compressor, and oil and water pumps. Most of
the castings are for the engine and vary greatly in weight. For 'example, a piston
ring weighs only 70 grams while a cylinder block weighs 160 kilograms.
The high degree of mechanization, combined with the Stakhanovite methods em-
ployed, have enabled this shop to achieve excellent production indexes. In October
1948: it received the Stakhanovite rating, which it holds to this day. In addition,
it holds the plant's transferable red banner and has been named consistently the
best of all casting shops under the Ministry of Automobile and Tractor Industry.
Its achievements are 'all the more remarkable Because this shop had been one of the
most backward in the plant as late as 1946.
At present the conveyer belt is used in all the basic production sections in
the shop, and the day and hour schee.ules have become a fixed rule.
Mechanization was carried out at every step through the plant's own efforts.
Forming machines and conveyers, four-way driers and other machines were installed
for this purpose.
This shop has produced many Stakhanovites whose fame has spread throughout
the USSR. Goncharov, a molder, produces the record number of 900 molds per shift
on the VF2 molding machine. Bykovskiy, a f^rming brigade leader, forms 405 bottoms
per shift for ZIS -150 cylinder blocks. A coremaking brigade, headed by Kirilina,
raised its productivity to a point where it was able to change over to a single
shift instead of the former two. Golikova, a member of this brigade, can form 980
large-type cores cylinder block per shift. Lodovskaya and Zasorina can form ul,
to 130 piston rings per shift, which is a record number.
MECHANIZE PIPE BENDING AND RING GRINDING -- Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 30 Aug 50
A worker of the Kharkov Tractor Plant, operating a new machine toci designed
by fitter Khrushchiy, turned out 50,000 exhaust pipes in 2 months. This tool has
completely mechanized the pipe-bending process. Instead of 40 minutes, a pipe now
takes only 8 minutes to produce.
A lathe operator at the same plant, Ivan Shilo, has designed a special-machine
tool for grinding the external surfaces of tractor piston rings,?which hitherto was
done by hand. This has increased labor productivity 8 to 10 times. The tool grinds
as many rings in one hour as were formerly ground by the entire shop during a shift.
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