BUILD GEORGIAN TRUCK; PROMISE TO INCREASE GUARANTEED RUN OF TRUCKS

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• Publication Date: March 15, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic; Technological - Automobile industry
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DATE
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BUILD GEORGIAN TRUCK;
PROMISE TO INCREASE GUARANTT~ED RUN OF TRUCKS
KUTAISI PLANT STARTS TRUCK PRODUCTION -- Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 19 Aug 51
On 18 August 1951, the first Georgian-built ZIS-150 truck, equipped with
a SAZ-120 motor, rolled of the main assembly line of the Kutaisi Automobile
Plant. B. Bukiya is the director of the new plant on the outskirts of Kutaisi.
The plant has built an experimental model o. a new improved truck to be
called the KAZ-150.
Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 11 Oct 51
The Kutaisi Automobile Plant is equipped with modern machinery, and a
steady stream of trucks rolls off the main assembly line. The first consign-
ments of these trucks have been shipped to various parts of the USSR. Powerful
KAZ-120 motors made by the plant are being used in the construction of the
Kakaovka GES and the South Ukrainian and North Crimean canals. In August and
September, the plant shipped large consignments of motors to the Volga-Don
Canal project considerably ahead of time. The plant is now making various
truck parts for the Volga-Don Canal project, and has also slipped truck motors
to the Stalingrad GES project.
The plant's foundry completed its 1951 program in 9 months.
The plant plans to organize the output of automobi_, chassis and dumr
trucks by the end of 1951.
G. Khlamov, Minister of Automobile and Tractor Industry USSR, was present
at a meeting of the plants party-management aktiv which adopted a resolution
to eliminate shortcomings in the work of plant personnel and to improve auto-
mobile production.
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dasi The Chief Designers Division has worked out more than 80 changes in the
do of the ZIS 150 truck, and the most irportant changes have been adopted in
Production, increasing the life of parts and of the truck as a whole. For inste?ice,
the cylinder sleeves are no. made of an acid-resistant material, thus increasing
the life of the motor three or four times. The adoption of porous chrome-plating
of the upper compression piston rings increased their life two or three times.
The Kutaisi Automobile Plant has developed and made a model of the KAZ-150
truck. KAZ-150 motors have already received high ratings.
Eighty-two percent of the plant workers are youths.
SEEK TO DOUBLE GUARANTEED RUN OF URAL ZIS-5 -- Moscow, Pravda, 13 Jul 51
In 1950, stoppages of machine tools for medium repairs at the Miass
Ural Automobile Plant imeni Stalin were cut in half, and the output per unit
of equipment was increased considerably.
The plant has 19 -takhanovite shops and 180 Stakhanovite bays and
sections. Almost three fourths of all production workers are now in Stakhanovite
units. Plant workers are now faced with the task of doubling the guaranteed run
of trucks produced by the enterprise.
In the past 2 years, a number of improvements have been made in trucks made
by the plant. A new rear-axle reduction gear that is far longer-lasting than the
old one has been adopted. The trucks have hydraulic brakes on all four wheels
instead of mechanical brakes on the rear wheels alone. A new fine oil filter
is now used, and the design of the grsoline tank has been changed.
Annealing of parts by high-frequency currents, high-speed metal cutting,
and other modern techniques are finding ever wider application at the plant.
However, the ZIS-5 trucks produced by the plant still have comparatively weak
units. A number of improvements are being made to increase the guaranteed run
of the trucks from 25
000 t
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o 50,000 kilometers.
Porous chrome-plating of piston rings and cylinders is being adopted to
lengthen Asir life. The plant plans to chrome-plate parts that wear out in
a comparatively short time, such as the differential spider, the rear-axle re-
duction gear, and steering rocker arm pins
Shot
bl
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-
asting units Po. proc-
eesinp valve springs and rear springs are being constructed. At present, these
parts dometimee give out after 10,000-12,000 kilometers, but shot-blasting. will
undoubtedly ir-rease their wear resistance
The water-pump drive will be modernized. The countershaft gear will be
mounted on antifriction bearings instead of on babbit bushings as at present.
The front-axle. dng pin unit, spring fastenings, and other units will be changed.
A new, easier-operating steering gear, a strengthened platform, and a water
pump mounted on ball bearings will be installed.
INNOVATIONS SAVE MONEY -- Moscow, Izvestiya, 19 Oct 51
In 9 months of 1951, 2,077 proposals were adopted in production for a saving
of 5,551,300 rubles at the Miass Ural Automobile Plant imeni Stalin. A change
in the process of annealing small parts saved the plant 137,000 rubles.
PROMISE ABOVE-PLAN OUTPUT, SAVINGS -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 20 Nov 51
Workers of the Moscow Automobile Plant imeni Stalin have promised to produce
millkns of rubles of above-elan outnu+ including ZTG-'S') and ZI.:-ici trucks,
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and ZIS-155 busses, in honor of Stalin Constitution Day (December 5). In
^oveOber, the plant will turn out s-verwl Hundred thousand rubles, worth of
new equipment and will sccumulat at least 4 million rubles above the plan by
reducing production costs.
4M S PPLAIIT BUILDS DUMP TRUCKS FOR PROJECTS -- 1-., in, Sovetskaya Estoniya,
Aug 51
The 'dinsk Automobile Plant recently shipped 68 flatcars loaded with MAZ-
205 dump trucks to the Volga-Don Canal project.
Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya. 16 Sep 51
A special shop hat jeen set up at the Minsk Automobile Plant for the
series production of 25-ton dump trucks. Parts and units of the truck are
made by automobile plants in Moscow fAutomobile Plant imeni Stalin7, Gor'kiy
.Automobile
.Automobile Plant imeni Molotov7, Yaroslavl' Automobile Plant7, and Miass
Automobile Plant imeni Stalin7.
Recently completed trucks will be sent to the Volga-Don Canal project,
where the first experimental models were tested. Surveys of the performance
of the experimental trucks led to several dhanges in design. Changes were made
in the steering gear to make it more durable and to make steering. easier. A new-
design radiator will be installed on these trucks in he future. The Altay
JTractor! Plant is now supplying the Minsk Plant with motors o: improved
design. -- B. Shaposhn1k, chief designer of the 25-ton dump truck
Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorus:iya,25 Sep 51
Workers of the Minsk Automobile Plant have promised to increase the run
of their trucks before capital repairs are needed to 100,000 kilometers.
BELORUSSIAN SSR SETS GOALS FOR REMAINDER OF 1951 -- Moscow, Pravda, 1 Oct 51
Workers, engineers, technicians, and other employees in Belorussian SSR
assume the following obligations for the remainder of 1Q51:
[Mins7 Automobile Plant: To fulfi.1 the 1951 plan for gross output by
21 December, to increase labor productivity 3 percent beyond the plan, to
lower the production cost of goods one percent beyond the plan, to lower the
labor consumption of basic output 25 percent, and to increase the coefficient
of utilization of equipment by 3 percent. To reduce the metal consumption of
each MAZ-205 truck by 200 kilcgrams as compared to 1950. To organize the series
output of the large MAZ-205 dump trucks and MAZ-200' trucks.
[Mina] Tractor Plant: To fulfill the 1951 plan by 21 December, tc in-
crease labor productivity 2 percen' beyond the plan, and to lower the production
cost of comparable output 2 per it beyond the plan. To organize the production
and assure fulfillment of the 1;51 plan for KT-12 skidding tractors.
[Minsk] Bicycle Plant: To complete the 1951 plan for gross and commodity
output by 21 December, to increase labor productivity 5 percent beyond the
plan, and to lower the labor consumption of V-16 bicycles 32 pe cent by the
end of the year. To organize the production of Ml-A motorcycles. To achieve
a saving of 900,000 rubles by adopting innovations. To raise the qualifi-
cations of 350 workers and train 550 new workers by the end of the year.
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