USSR EXPANDS OUTPUT OF SPARE PARTS FOR TRACTORS, FARM MACHINES

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• Publication Date: March 31, 1954
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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
INFORMATION 1953
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers DATE DIST. 31 Mar 1954
SUBJECT Economic; Technological - Tractor industry,
HOW agricultural machinery
LANGUAGE
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 16 Sep-11 Nov 1953
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
USSR EXPANDS OUTPUT OF SPARE PARTS FOR TRACTORS, FARM MACRINES
LENINGRADSKAYA OBLAST RECEIVES, PRODUCES TRACTOR SPARE PARTS -- Leningradskaya
Pravda, 23 Sep 53
Leningradskaya Oblast receives an average of three carloads of tractor
spare parts daily. These parts are produced by the Stalingrad, Kharkov,
Rubtsovsk Altay, Lipetsk, and Minsk tractor plants; and by more than 60 Lenin-
grad enterprises. In all, there are 211 suppliers of tractor spare parts.
The [Moscow Motor Vehicle] Plant imeni Stalin, the Leningrad Kirov Tractor
Plant, the Leningrad Carburetor Plant imeni Kuybyshev, and the Kiev. Ekonomayzer
Plant also supply tractor spare parts.
Besides supplying the oblast, the Leningradskaya Oblast Office of
Glavmashsbyt (Main Administration of Sales, Ministry of Machine Building USSR),
also supplies its Tikhvin affiliate, and plans to open branches in Lodeynoye
Pole, Lugs, and Volosovo.
Moscow, Trud, 17 Oct 53
The Ekonomayzer, Vulkan, and Krasnyy Metallist plants in Leningrad have
already fulfilled their 1953 plan for the production of tractor spare parts.
The Plant imeni Stalin, the Carburetor Plant imeni Kuybyshev, and the Plant
imeni Kotlyakov, all in Leningrad, have produced thousands of spare parts.
ASK BETTER SPARE-PARTS SUPPLY -- Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 11 Oct 53
In 8 months of 1953, the Belorussian SSR office of Glavmashsbyt sold
2.1 times the amount of tractor spare parts that it sold in all of 1950.
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Some Belorussian SSR plants are doing a good job of supplying spare parts.
The Vitebsk Machine Tool Buildin
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meni Kirov fulfilled its spare-parts
plan for the ASKhTZ-NATI tractor for the entire products list. The Minsk Plant
imeni Kirov fulfilled its 9-month plan for spare parts 87 percent and the Minsk
Tractor Plant fulfilled its spare-parts plan 78 percent. The other eight Minsk
plants assigned to the production of spare parts, and also plants in Mogilev,
Gomel', and Vitebsk, have not fulfilled their plans even 50 percent.
The Minsk Udarnik Plant fulfilled its 9-month production plan but fulfilled
its plan for decentralized production of tractor spare parts only 50 percent.
The plant is holding up the production of several hundred badly needed parts for
the DT-54 tractor.
The Minsk Plant imeni Voroshilov fulfilled its 9-month plan for spare parts
only 8 percent; the Minsk Motorcycle and Bicycle P]'nt fulfilled its plant only
40 percent; and the Minsk Motor Vehicle Plant fulfilled its plan only 44 percent.
Bondarenko, director of the Minsk Railroad Car Repair Plant imeni Myasnikov,
and Sarychev, director of the Minsk Motor Vehicle Repair Plant, refused to con-
clude agreements for decentralized production of spare parts with the republic
office of Glavmashsbyt. As a result, MTS are short hundreds of rollers for
S-80 tractors and side transmission gears for ASKhTZ-NATI tractors.
The Vitebsk Tool. Grinding Machine Plant, the Gomel' Ship Repair Plant, and
other plants have not yet dtarted producing spare parts, which leaves MTS short
3,000 pants.. Enterprises of the ministries of local and fuel industries have
not carried-Out-their spare-parts assignments.
The directors of the Gomel' Gomsel'mash Agricultural Machine Building.
Plant,. the Gomel' Ship Repair Plant,' and the Minsk Motor Vehicle Plant attri-
bute their failures to produce spare parts to shortages of the proper shapes
of rolled stock, but this is not a valid excuse.
The Gomel' Dvigatel' (Engine) Revolyutsii Plant, which is actually a
workshdp,'casts side transmission housings in its foundry. It would have been
much easier to organize the production of these housings at the Minsk Motor
Vehicle Plant.
Directors of enterprises have been unwilling to organize the output of new
products,. especially tractor spare parts. -- V. Volod'ko, chief of the. Planning
Division;'D, Vershinin, chief of the Operations Division; both of the Belo-
russian SSR office of Glavmashsbyt
CHELYABINSK PLANT FAILS TO PRODUCE TRACTOR SPARE PARTS -- Moscow, Izvestiya,
13 Oct 53
The Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, which produces the S-80 tractor, is also
the chief. producer of spare parts for. this tractor. However, the plant manage-
ment considers spare-parts production a secondary matter. When there was a'
shortage of reduction gear glands on the assembly line at the end of September,
100 glands that were ready for shipment to MTS as spare parts were called back
from the warehouse and used for assembly. The same situation existed in Oc-
tober.
After many months of nonfulfillment, the plant fulfilled its September
plan for gross and commodity production. Nevertheless,, frantic requests for
spare parts continued to pour in to Skachkov, plant director.
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The Moldavian SSR office of Glavmashsbyt in Kishinev did not receive the
50 cylinder heads allotted to the republic for the third quarter 1953.
In 1953, the plant has failed to deliver 13 million rubles' worth of
spare
In parts, and has a huge backlog of orders for 72 type designations of parts.
the first 9 months of 1953, the plant failed to produce more than 600,ooo
piston'rings; more than 11,000 track roller shafts; 3,500 cylinder heads; and
a large quantity of starting engines, reduction gears, and fuel injectors. At
the same time, some shops at the plant are overproducing uch parts as trans-
missions, brackets, and rollers in order to boost the t,..al figures for gross
output.
Many shop chiefs complain about the plant's supply services. Buyerakov,
deputy chief of the Metals Division of the plant, complains that the Magnito-
gorsk, Chelyabinsk, No. tihirsk, Zlatoust; Zaporozh'ye Zaporozhstal', and
Stalingrad Krasnyy Oktyabr' metallurgical plants are not providing the plant
with an adequate supply of metal. While there is some justification for this
complaint, the Metals Division itself is also to blame for stoppages of ma-
terials and'equipment because its workers do not always know what materials
are on hand.
Plant Director Skachkov and Chief Engineer Kritsyn admit that poor work
in iron foundry No 2 is holding up the production of piston rings but this is
not the only bottleneck. The starting engines shop, headed by?Sunt,sev, ful-
filled its spare-parts plan for the first 7 months of 1953 only 73 percent.
Of the 27 type designations of spare parts it produces, the shop chronically-
fails to meet the plan for 15 type designations.
Rejects are'high, amounting to 25 million rubles for the entire plant.
One out of ten tractor wheels cast by the steel foundry is rejected. Iron
foundry No 1 turns out many defective engine blocks. The plant loses hundreds
of thousands of?rubles because storage facilities for spare parts are inad-
equate. Parts are piled, up carelessly outside the plant, and exposed to rain
and snow. On 6 October 1953, a shipment of tractor engines was halted because
they had'rusted after prolonged exposure.
Moscow, Pravda, 17 Oct 53
Two out of eight electric furnaces at the'Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant do
not normally operate because of so-called electric=power-,limitations- Thede
two furnaces are pressed into service only when one of the other fu-naces has
been shut down for major.repairs. If all eight electric furnaces at the plant
were, operated at full capacity, the plant could turn out addi-'onal tens of
thousands of tons of,high-grade steel in 1953. However,'instead;of utilizing
these' reserves, the plant is obtaining the steel from the Magnitogorsk and
Zlatoust metallurgical plants.
Moscow, Trud, 17 Oct 53
In the first 14 days of October, the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant turned out
the following amounts of above=plan output: 194 cylinder heads, 84,470 com-
pression and oil piston rings, and 1,360 cylinder liners.
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PLANTS INCREASE OUTPUT OF TRACTOR, FARM MACHINE SPARE PARTS -- Kiev, Pravda
Ukrainy, 16 Sep 53
The Kiev Plant imeni Lepse has set up a constant flow line for producing
cylinder sleeves for KD-35 tractors. This production line will make it pos-
sible-to turn out an additional 100,000 cylinder sleeves in 1953.
Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 2 Oct 53
The Mogilev Locomobile Plant has produced several hundred water pump
housings for DT-54 tractors. The Vitebsk Tool Grinding Machine Plant, which
makes gears for the ASKhTZ-NATI and Universal tractors, has not been fulfill-
ing its assignment.
Moscow, Trud, 7 Oct 53
The Kishinev Machinery Plant imeni Kotovskiy and the Kishinev -Machinery
Plant?imeni.Kirov have organized the output of over 100 type designations of
spare parts for tractors and agricultural machines. They also produce wind-
driven generators)-Pumps, and other machines.
The Bel'tsy Repair, Plant helps MIS repair tractors and combines.
Moscow, Izvestiya, 8 Oct 53
The Moscow Brake Plant has exceeded its plan for producing tractor spare
Parts for the first 9-months of 1953,
Moscow, Pravda, 10 Oct 53
In.tbe first 9 months of 1953,.the Yerevan Avtodetal' (Motor Vehicle Parts)
Plant produced twice as many tractor spare parts as it did in the first 9 months
of 1952. The plant makes gear clusters for the RD-12 [sic; should be KT-12]
tractor,. and will soon start producing spare parts for agricultural implements.
Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 12 Oct 53
The Moscow Ressora'(Springs) Plant has promised to produce an additional
100,000 rubles' worth of spare parts for agricultural machines in October.
Since the beginning of October, the plant has shipped about 18,00O.-springs to
MPS and kolkhozes. Today, a consignment of 1,500 springs was shipped to
Kostromskaya, Kirovskaya, Ul'yanovskaya, and other oblasts.
Moscow, Komsomol'skayaPravda, 16 Oct 53
The'Leningrad Krasnyy Metallist Plant makes geared drums for tractors.
Recently, the plant received a request for additional parts from offices of
Glavavtotraktorosbyt (Main Administration of Motor Vehicle and Tractor Sales),
and decided to make 300 more geared drums before the end of 1953.
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Moscow, Trud, 18 Oct 53
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The Kharkov Tractor plant is producing above-plan tractors and tractor
spare parts.
The Omsk Porshen' (Piston) Plant produced 35,000 diesel tractor pistons
and 40,OO other spare parts above its 9-month plan.
Moscow, Trud, 18 Oct 53
During.the first 8 months of 1953, the Rubtsovsk Altay Tractor Plant
failed to produce a large quantity of spare parts for machines used in agri-
culture because men and machines were idle, and the number of rejected items
was great.
Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 19 Oct 53
The Moscow Plant imeni Budenny has shipped more than 700 sets of hydraulic
lift mechanisms for tractors above the plan for the first 10 months of 1953.
Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 22 Oct 53
Machine assembly shop No 5 of the Moscow Motor Vehicle Plant imeni Stalin
has been assigned the production of 2,200 hay stacker gears. The shop is turn-
ing out 150 gears daily, but will put on three shifts so that it can produce
even more gears. .
Machine assembly slop No 3 is making small shafts for tractors.
The malleable iron foundry is making parts for potato diggers.
Moscow, Trud, 27 Oct 53
The Sverdlovsk Transport Machine Building Plant is shipping spare parts
for tractors at twice the rate maintained in the first half of 1953.
Stalinabad, Kommunist Tadzhikistan, 4 Nov 53
The Stalinabad [Traktorodetal' (Tractor Parts)] Plant imeni Ordzhonikidze
has not been filling orders for MfS, has stopped making spare parts for S-80
tractors, and is turning out defective output.
The Stalinabad Repair Plant (Samarskiy, director) has repaired only 5 out
of 70'motors and is doing poor work.
Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 11 Nov 53
The Leningrad Motor Repair Plant, Ministry of Agriculture and Procurement
USSR, has produced more than 15,000 tractor spare parts in 1953?
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