TESLA HOLESOVICE, NATIONAL ENTERPRISE, IN PRAGUE - HOLESOVICE

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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 16
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2007
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 19, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Tesla Holesovioe, National Enterprise,
in Prague - Holesovioe
INFORMATION REPORT
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
19 January 1955
1. Plant No, 01 of Tesla Holesovice, National Enterprise, is located in Prague-
Holesovioe, about 300 meters west of the Vltava River, on the corner of
Deliioka and Jankovicova Streets. To the west is the street called V Haji.
To the south is Tuserova Street.
2. The factory has about 1,500 employees, of whom about 65% are women. There
are no brigade workers or prisoners working in the plant.
3. Machinery, in addition to the machines described in the legends (see Annexes),
includes about six lathes in the cellar workshops, two belts for washing
bulbs, and a few electric machines for measuring the bulbs.
a. From Eastern Germanys Wolfram, sometimes ready-made filaments of very
poor quality.
b. From Hungarys Molybdenum and wolfram.
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a. BH program (sic), 1,700 bulbs for aircraft, tension 24 V and 200 Vy
7,000 bulbs for cars,
b. .,Production for the domestic markets 50,000 bulbs 60 V,
1,000,000 bulbs 25 V,
80,000 bulbs 15 V,
27,000 bulbs 200 V,
18,000 f,.1arl=;nts for noon 1i_~nts, '25
and 40 V,
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6. The incandescent filaments are shipped-to the Tesla Holesovioe plant in
Usti nad Labem; it is not known where the bulbs are shipped.
7. The machinery is in poor condition. The material for making filaments is
of bad quality, especially the wolfram wire from Germany. The glass delivered
has different measurements from that ordered, and the gas is badly purified.
8. The five-ycr,. lan for bulb production is fulfilled 110%. The filaments
department plan is fulfilled 50%.
10. There are always two members of the plant guard armed with pistols at the
gatekeepers' post. From time to time one member of the plant guard patrols
the factory.
11. Morale is poor; there is dissatisfaction with the night shifts and with the
machinery, and generally with management. Most of the people take their meals
in the factory canteen.
12. Political instruction is held once a week for a ten-minute period. Meetings
take place once a month.
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ANNEX As Hole sovice Plant No. 01
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Legend
1.
Administrative building, brick, four-story. On the third and fourth floors are
apartments for employees.
2.
Gatekeeper's post, brick, single-story..
3.
Storage for acids and production material. Wooden, single-story building,
5 m. high.
4.
Storage for compressed gas. Underground, concrete pit, the roof of which is
5.
approximately 50 cm. above ground. Depth unknown.
Basin, concrete, full of water. Depth about one meter.
6.
Plant kitchen.
7.
Canteen.
8.
Catering office.
9.
Plant physician.
1Q.
Wire department.
11.
Corridor.
12.
Offices.
13.
Distributor for compressed gas.
14.
Filaments department.
15.
Office of the manager of the filaments department.
16.
Elevator.
17.
Disc department.
18.
Teohnioal control.
19.
Bulb department.
20.
Department for-special bulbs.
21.
Laboratory.
22.
Development department.
23.
Boiling room.
24.
Iron gate.
25.
Park belonging to the factory.
26.
Brick wall.
A.. This is a single-story building, about six meters high,
some of the workshops are located*
with basement, where
B. This building is about the same height as A. and was built in about 1947.
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ANNEX B: Filien ents Department
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1. Office.
2. Distribution of material.
3. Shelves.
4. Bench.
5. Filament control.
6. 8 torsion balances for weighing. filaments of wolfram wire, new, sensitivity
2-5 tenths of a milligrams.
7. 2 dispensing scales for weighing filaments, older type.
8. Work bench.
9. Cupboard.
10. 1 grinder, older type.
11. 1 vertical drilling machine, old.
12; BH program department.
13.
See 26 below (sic).
14.
See 25 below (sic).
15.
Bench.
16.
2 cutting and 2 bending machines for filaments,
and 17a.
2 vertical furnaces for shaping spirals, one old and one new, installed
in April 1953.
18.
1 boat-shaped hand-operated. furnace.,-:for. -.r. educing filamnts.
19.
1 continuous furnace for reducing filaments, older type.
20.
1 horizontal shaping furnace, duplex older type.
21.
Decreasing of filaments.
22.
4 WUD machines for making filaments, old.
23.
3 Brueckner 2200 machines for making filaments, old.
24.
12 F0-i machines for making filaments, Hungarian make,
25.
6 Brueckner 2400 machines for making filaments, old.
26. 14, `InQg7~: machines for making filaments, old.. Filaments for 60 watts and upw
ards
are made on these machines.
27, 40'WF machines of 4800 revolutions and 6 of 2400; old.
28. Winding machines for winding wolfram wire in coils.
29. 1 Dutch filament machine, old.
30. 8 F0-5 machines for making filaments, new, installed in May 1953.
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1. 8'!roduetien belts.
2. Chsuber for t.sting bulbs.
8. 1 sppsrstus for aprrying filaments with phosphorus.
4. Olfiei.
5. Corridor.
6. Prodnotien of spec a1 bulbs (by )and).
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1. 3 syokines for wire production (wires introducing current into the bulbs) .
2. Cogtrol of wire.
8. Bench.
4. 2 a ekines for winding molybdeuti wire..
5. Hand production of wire.
6. Oxygen cylinders.-
7. Nitrogen cylinders.
8. Hydrogen cylinders.
9. Supply of gas cylinders.
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1. 2 bathe of water for boiling filaments. Here the cores on which the
filaments are wound are boi~lted in aoide (the core`s are generally iron
or molybdenum).
2. Filaments-drying range.
3. Bench.
4. Cupboards.
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1. Office.
2. 1 electric furnace for tempering filaments.
3. Hydrogen cylinder.
4. 1 Brueckner 2200 machine for making filaments.
5. 1 WF 798 machine for making filaments.
6. 1 Brueckner 2400 machine for making filaments.
7. Storage place for wheels of the machine,
8, 1 cutting Machine for filaments.
9. Work benches.
10. 1 machine for filling and sealing bulbs.
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1. 3 machines for disc production, old.
2. Bench.
3. 2 machines for cutting glass rods..
4. -Control for rods.
5. 1 frinder for head cutting of rods.
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