TIE-UPS AT USSR MOTOR VEHICLE, REPAIR PLANTS; PRODUCE TRUCKS, BICYCLES

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700160230-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 230
• Publication Date: February 9, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAT,
CENTRAL iNTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO,
HOW bicycles
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 27 Aug-22 Sep 1953
LANGUAGE Russian
TIE-UPS AT USSR MOTOR VEHICLE, REPAIR PLANTS;
PRODUCE TRUCES, BICYCLES
MOTOR VEHICLE PLANT OPERATES SPORADICALLY -- Moscow, Pravda, 27 Aug 53
For a long time now, the Miass Ural Motor Vehicle Plant imeni Stalin has not
been fulfilling its production plan. This failure is partly the fault of plants
that supply parts and materials to the Miass plant, and partly the fault of the
Miass plant itself.
It must be pointed out, however, that some plants, such as the Shadrinsk Motor
Vehicle Aggregate Plant, are fulfilling their obligations for supplying parts and
units to the Miass plant.
On the other hand, the Chelyabinsk Pressing and Forging Plant has not been
meeting its plan for supplying forgings to the Miass plant for the past 2 years,
and fulfilled its second quarter 1953 plan for delivering parts by only 88.6 per-
cent. The Chelyabinsk plant chronically fails to deliver tube stock, brackets,
disks, and other products. The plant has been preparing to produce streamlined
truck fender stampings for the past 3 years. Kirsanov, director of the Chelya-
binsk Pressing and Forging Plant, and Mitichkin, chief engineer, have not taken
decisive measures to improve the work of the enterprise.
Rukhadze, director of the Miass Ural Motor Vehicle Plant, while making justi-
fied complaints about the failures of cooperating plants, is inclined to be silent
about the shortcomings of his o'm plant. The woodworking and press shops are do-
ing very poor work. The plant's Division of Interplant Cooperation has become a
mere transport office entirely occupied with bringing parts from Chelyabinsk to
Miass. The Miass plant spends 25,000 rubles monthly on the brigade which conveys
parts between the two cities, and spends too much money on transport in general.
Glavavtoprom (Main Administration of the Motor Vehicle Industry), Ministry of
Machine Building, should see to it that the Miass Ural Motor Vehicle Plant imeni
Stalin and the Chelyabinsk Pressing and Forging Plant improve their operations.
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MAIN CONVEYER HELD UP BY PARTS LACK -- Moscow, Trud, 4 Sep 53
MAZ-200 and MAZ-205 trucks now being series produced by the Minsk Motor Ve-
hicle Plant weigh an average of 110 kilograms less than they did when the plant
first started producing them.
A month ago, Babayev, chairman of the Leninabad City Executive Committee, re-
ported that the first section of the Leninabad Motor Vehicle Repair Plant had been
put into operation. The plant recei"ed machine tools from Moscow, Kiev, and
Vitebsk IT' years ago. However, the plant has yet to begin operation. Workers re-
port to the plant daily and are paid for doing nothing. The plant does not. yet
have a director or chief engineer.
The Kutaisi Motor Vehicle Plant has completed tests of the improved KAZ-585
dump truck. Plant designers, aided by the Mytishchi Machine Building Plant, have
improved the performance of the truck. The power take-off and the oil pump have
been combined into one unit, thus eliminating a propeller shaft.
The plant's experimental shop is working on a dump truck that can dump loads
to either side, as well as to the rear. Plant designers are also working on an
improved 4-ton truck to be called the KAZ-150.
The Novosibirsk Plant of the Ministry of Agriculture ^.nd Procurement is pro-
ducing a 4-ton tank truck for transporting fuel. The plant has already built one
fuel truck above its August plan and will turn out six more above-plan trucks by
the end of the month.
GOR'KIY PLANT CUPS PRODUCTION COSTS, MAKES BICYCLES -- Leningradskaya Pravda,
11 Sep 53
In the first 4 months of 1953, the production cost of a Pobeda passenger car
was 50.7 percent of the 1949 cost; and the production cost of a CAZ-51 truck was
58.3 percent of the 1949 cost. In 2 years and 4 months of the Fifth Five-Year Plan,
the Gor'kiy Motor Vehicle Plant has saved 37 million rubles above the plan.
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Moscow, Izvestiya, 19 Sep 53
In 1 53, the Gor'kiy Motor Vehicle Flant will increase the output of chil-
dren's Lhhree-wheele7 velocipedes by 30 percent. The plant recently shipped a
consignment of children's velocipedes to Sakhalin Island ia,response to a letter
from a group of parents.
The plant also plans to increase the output of bicycles for older children.
PRODUCE BICYCLES, REFRIGERATORS -- Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 12 Sep 53
The Moscow Motor Vehicle Plant imeni Stalin is increasing its output of bi-
cycles and refrigerators. The plant recently completed its 500,000th bicycle.
Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 22 Sep 53
Assembly shop No 6 of the Moscow Motor Vehicle Plant imeni Stalin produces
the ZIS-Progress bicycle.
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