BRATISLAVA ELECTRO TECHNICAL WORKS (BEZ), BRATISLAVA

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
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• Publication Date: October 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia REPORT
SUBJECT Bratislava. Electro --technic al Works DATE DISTR.
20 October 1953
(BEZ), Bratislava
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1. The Bratislava Electro technical Works (Bratislavske elektrotechnicke zavody - BEZ),
Bratislava, received its present name in 1948. It originally was known as Siemens-
Bratislava and after World war rr was celled CD-Krivan. The main entrance to the
plant is at Raoanska cesta 14, Bratislava.
2. About 620 persons are employed in the plant, 130 of them being women. Work is done
in three shifts.
3. Electric motors make up 70% of the plant's production. They are all three-phase
Motors of 6, 8, 12, 16, 18 and 24 horsepower and of 220, 380 and 500 volts. Monthly
oapacity is about 180 electric motors of all types. The entire output of motors
is for export: about 70% for the USSR and the remaining 30% for the satellite nations.
4. Transformers make up the other 30% of the plant's production. These are standardized
al transformers (Oeltransformatoren) for high voltages - 60,000 or 120,000 volts -
ind also for 220,380 and 500 volts. These transformers can be regulated. Monthly
production amounts to about 110 transformers. About 10% of them are for domestic
requirements; the remainder are shipped to the USSR.
5. Materials brought to the plant for processing include the following: minder armatures
(Wicklerarmaturen) for rotors, parts for and complete armature boxes, bakelite liners
for insulators, electrolytic steel, brass and brass wire (Messingdraehte). The
electrolytic steel, brass and brass mire are said to come from Lamer Austria; the
other material mentioned is from Czechoslovakia.
6. Electric current and gas are obtained from the city of Bratislava. Steam is produced
at the plant.
7. A railroad spur line leads from, the Novomeske Station to the BEZ plant. The plant
has four automobiles, five trucks and a travelling crane.
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8. The following is a desoription of the various points indicated on the annexed sketches,
including lists of the machinery In the various buildings. Seventy percent of the
machinery is newly manufactured.
(1) Transformer and machine hall, a one-story steel structure.
(a)
Production of transformers; this hall has the following machinery:
1 large hydraulic press for 60 atmospheres
Itravellineorane, 60 tons
6 molding machines (Formpressmasohinen)
3 planing machines"
3 grinding machinei
4 drilling machines
4 planing machines
(b) Machine hall (Strojirna); produotion of parts for transformers and electric
motors; this hall has the following-maohineryt
5 molding machines (Foimpresamasohinen) for sheet metal from 1 to 4 mm.
4 Milling machines (vertical and horizontal)
8 lathei --
3 revolving lathes
2 magnetic grinding machines
Iron saws (Eisensaegen)
(2) One-story steel structure; boiler house, gas plant and electrioity-gint. -AdMit-
tanae to this building is only withspecial
Steilh.for the -steam Presiei for trinsforMer-iiroduCtioi-ii-iiraiced in the-bailer
house. The electricity plant hatil'Ohe ginerator-ind-Cni kiiiitifit is only used
if the current is weak. or fails completely. Thera-is'a-mZill-4is reieiicii-in -
the gad plant which distributes the gas to'the-Virioui-biationi.- Gas is brought
in from the munidipal gas reservoir; the gas line is underground.
(3) Small trolley station for the BEI workers.
(4) Two-story steel structure in the form of an "04 foundry and drafting roam. rn
the cellar of this building the finished produats are stored - shifts (Wellen)
for electric motors, armatures for switchboxes. In the foundry On the ground
floor, special electrolytic steel is poured into forms. The foundry has three
electric furnaces, each with a capacity of 200 kilograms. The technical offices
for the foundry and a storage area for finished products are also on the ground
floor.' The drafting room is on the second floor.
(5) Administration building. The canteen is on the ground floor.
(6) Porter's lodge.
(7) Electro-technical hall and plant laboratory; a one-story steel structure. This
hall has the following machinery:
4 vertical lathes
12 winding machines for:Tiotors of electric motors
4-milling machines (sic)
14-Milling-machines (sic)
5 planing machines
3 drilling machines
Iron saws
3 special machines for grinding and turning rotor coreA.
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The 12 winding machines mentioned above were produced in Czechoslovakia in 1952
with the Micafil winding machine as a model. The laboratory is on the second
floor of this building.
(8) Time clocks for the employees are located here.
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(9) Plant