CZECHOSLOVAK AUTOMOBILE TRANSPORTATION (CSAD)

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• Publication Date: June 16, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United Stutz., within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 799 and 794. of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its conten_fs
to or receipt by an unauthorised person is prohibited
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REPORT
SUBJECT Czechoslovak Automobile Transportation DATE DISTR.
(CSAD)
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16 i me 1953
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DATE OF INFO. REQUIREMENT NO. RD
PLACE ACQUIRED REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
Enclosure: 1 report (35 pages, 1 map)
To:
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1/. Development ............9 a/ until 1948/June/
.............. page 2
b/ after 1948/June/ .............. page 2-3
2/. Administration .............................................. page 2-3
a/ in Administration CSAD ...... Page 3
b/ County Administration CSAD .... Page 3
c/ Transportation firms .......... page 3-4
d/ Commercial expediting .......,. page 4
3/. Transportation a/ Freight transportation e
b/ Passenger transportation page ag 5-
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4/. Conclusion ..................................................
page 6-8
Inclosures: a/ The survey of transportation firms of CSAD, local mana-
gements and number of buses assigned to them, as ascer-
tained from time tables of counties .............. page 1-22
b/ Alphabetic index of DZ and OV residences compiled from
Gazeteee of CSR, GSGS 4346 ...................... page 1-5
c/ DZ and OV map, scale 1:750,000
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CSAD National Corporation.
1/? Develepb-ment t
a/ Until the year 1948 /l rch?Juns/ the road traffic in CSR was
carried out by vehicles of CSD /Czechoslovak State Railways and
by vehicles of private firms.
During the first postwar years after WW II the situation in read
traffic was hampered by the shortage of now vehicles and by the
desolate state of old vehicles that had not been repaired and in..
tained enough during the war. Another difficulty was caused by getting
hold of spare parts for confiscated vehicles, namely of German ori-
gin, that were left behind by Germans in border areas in 1945.
Also spare parts for vehicles made in CSR before the war were not
immediately obtainable because such vehicles were out of production
for several yearso
The first production of now buses started in late 1945 in Skoda
Works and Tatra Works although it encountered numerous troubles--
shortage of material, destroyed workshops and machinery.
A similar situation existed in the freight traffic /trucks/,, al-
though a partial help was done by UNRRA deliveries in the form of
numerous trucks. First Czech trucks left production lines by late
1945 but production situation was the same as in bus production*
b/ After the year 1948, when the Communists seized the power and
decided to enlarge Czechoslovak industry to suit their plans, a
greater attention was devoted to the read traffic, namely bus traffi..
so. The enlargement of industry was enabled by sufficient menpewer
released in villages by introducing collective farming.
In 1948 were nationalized all existing, private transportation firms
that were merged, alongside CSD vehicles, in a single firm called
CSAD, National Corporation /Czechoslovak State Automobile Transport*
tation/, formed was an independant Center Nknagsment of CSAD direct"
ly subordinated to the Ministry of Transportation and Region Manage-
wont in Slovakia. A part of private, freight transportation firms
was included in local communal enterprises being just formed.
In 1949 there was done the overall reorganisation of CSAD on ground
of County Administration effective 1 Jan 1949 /so* ad 2" Administra.,
tien of CSAD, Nat. Corp/.
2/. Administration of CSAD, Nat. Corp:
As a nationwide enterprise the CSAD is organised in 19 areas identi?
cal with counties established in 1949. These areas are then suberdi"
nated to the Niin Administration of CSAD residing in Prague II, Na"
brozi I Cs. Kyjevsko Brigady 12, in the building of Ministry of Trans..
portation. The whole organization of CSAD may be outlined as follewss
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Ministry of Transportation/
MAIN ADMINISTRATICN OF CSAD
.COUNTY Aegional/ ADMINISTRATION OF CSLD
TRANSPORTATION FIRMS /County Enterprise/
.COMMERCIAL EXPEDITING or
LOCAL MANAGES OF CSAD
a/ Wain Administration of CSAD Nat. Cor :
Center Management of CSAD until 1952/ is the management of a nation-
wide enterprise controlling all the read transportation in CSR except
the transportation by vehicles of local, communal firms, be it passan??
ger or freight transportation. A detailed dividing of the Main Admini?e
stration of CSAD into departments is not known but it is probable that
it is similar to the former General Management of CSD where there were
the following departments: a/ personal
b/ commercial
c/ technical
d/ organisational
e/ scheduling
f/ cadres
In the whole about 8 departments,
b/ Count s ienal Administration of CSAD Nat Corps
Is established in every county town, i.e.
19 bearing the designation of ceuntiod numberscurrently auseddiin civics
administration - see the Survey of County Enterprises and Transporta-
tion Firms attached to this report as inclosures. It is also probable
that the County Administration is identical with the management of
County Enterprises or Transportation Firms losated in county towns.
c/ Trans erttation Firm /County Enter rise :
Is establi
shed in every county town ens some ether, important towns
of the county /2-8 transportation firms in the Bounty/. The size of
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dorprise, euumt J.den4wh sity_of population, advanced industry and the
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d/ ComtN ai_al. EXp ~~Local Management of CSAD:
This i~ actual], lytherranch of Transportation Firrr, or County Enterprise
eigaged,3~ ast3al. ' ?'Wh transportation, either regla)tt-aeco:,rding to offi-
tial time tables extraordinary according to requests, ss `unu:aal -y
exeur.iGns of works rs or school children for recreations or manifesta'
ti*" or rreight tr*bsportation in various campaigns. These commercial
expeditifgs or l w`1 managements of CSAD are a1s4 established in smaller
villages, especialL1Y in crossing points of more ),,,as lines and they ope-
rate ,pith several buses, trucks or drivers and carry out the transpor-
tation in areas or lines assigned to them.
They also deal with passanR,rs; such as brooking tickets, issuing travel
cards for workers and their also cb11vt't fees for transportations of
freights.
In the residence 'It 'commercial expediting thera are alas garages for
vehicles and '.Crj ,ops for current vehicles repair.
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a~ Frei',1t_Tra~aEort~attions
she ground to elabore the survey and to ascertain its extent is missing
t according to existing reports and knowledge, the automobile freight
traraaportatisn is not by far a serious competitor for railway transpor-i
tation as it is in case of passenger transportation. The freight trans.-
portattan is more limitted to trips on short distances9xKkkxxxkkKx trans-
ports of fast goods to places where railway transports would cause the
delay in deliveries and then the main task of automobile freight trans"
portation is to relieve the overloaded transportation by trains, such as
coal deliveries from mines on shorter distances, during sugarbeet and po-
tatoe campaign, harvests etc.
The available motor pool consists of trucks of mans types, from prewar,
Czech types via confiscated German trucks, UNRRA truek,%m C--4ah trucks
made after the WW II.
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These postwar types are the followings BKODL..Diesel 3,5 tens, SKODA-Die-
sel 5 ton, TLTRL 111 5 tons, PXAGL40 3,5 teasaad LUO 1,5 ten. It is
net sweetly kn. hew ,say of these o"V have been made aims 1945 and
then a aenetd.rablc aprality is sde for the Css? ..1 vak arey and for
the expert. The total stater of trnshh is CihSD mater pocie is probably
1500 pieces. T. this tigero we sMtsi *44 vmtsl0 at lo.a1 swmmroal som
terprises positively seto.Ming 1500 so other tr l in pos.o.1d n of
various firms so that the tstal nabs of trunks In OR., without vehi..
Iles of Csechoslevak ars5r, teals approximately 15,000 piosos*
b/Passenger Transportations
Data on passenger transportation were compiled from official time tables
of bus lines pertaining to summer of 1951,.,,p i or of 19li 3 and winter
of 195253: Their correlation provided a sufficient survey of lulls toans?
portation, location of transportation firms and relatively enest :. btr
of buses in motor pools of individual firms.
The comparison of mentioned time tables also revealed the growth of bus
trtths portation in the last three years. The biggest increase of OS-D
was recorded in the year 1951 /7 Oct/ when the bus transportation was
18` larger than in 1950.
In 1951 there were opened meet new lines and met be... put into operation.
The existing lines were .trenattonet by ssvesra1 now .devotions in seas
places and set up were also lelta?ti , .l it bs. .9 either from
county towns to Prague, ?m ai county wume or vul seatire.
In 1952 /30 Nev/ a se tain 001ber M *M belves. VOW pet into operation
and also new lines were not age than* In s rNr scale than in 1951.
This period from 7 Oat LOU to 30 Nor l" 9%ge the increase of a%.
The survey of transportation fires a$ number qt bosso in the inelesare
of this report reveals the fellewi.g *44 Valk 4ppr6ximte awls r of
buses in C SAD, Nat* Corp was the MLOMMO by late 1953 in these s ongo
ties:
1 - 9 ............abt 1x00 s/
10 -13 ............abt 1000 XX/ 1 .......abt 950
14- 19........?....ab~,} + 1 ........abt 800
Total number ......t
x/ for the survey used time table for winter of 1112.53 effective 30 Dos 52.
xx/ for winter of 1951.52 effective 7 Oat 51.
+/ N " ter slsm.r of 1951 effective BO my 510
It is not know to what .sleet is ploagg"A the salargemcat of We transporta?
tion but it is highly probable that tins O etc will try to hook up every
village with the bus niwsi in order Its, .cot uii the largest possible wimp...
war released from the agriculture, by rsfas tie collostive, fax* wag.
The time tables also revealed that y dad 5. i4ay be. transpertation
/called transportation an days *IV age oxlum4oly 15??2o% of the traffic
during work days. Jr.. this is evlte.t that the trn.portattes exclusively
serves requirsmsats of the industry w~t is snpposet to swable, a smooth facts.
ryattendanee of workers.
The bus aster post of CUD ceneists ef' vehisles of various types, i.ee of pre-
war sdets made in CM /3[0Di,p1tA"#1MtU,$ , , buses left behind by Germans
in 1945 and finally of buses twdsj& ONS after the w IT /SKODA and TATRi/.
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It is probable that the latter vehicles are prevailing in the motor
pools of CSAD because the comber of 3700 buses is quite acceptable
in view of the increase of the whole transportation during the last
years and the fact that bused production has boon supported by the
Communists by all means.
Buses being produced since 1945 /SKODA and TATRA/
can
70 persons in civilian transportation plus 1100 lbsoftleand entthebroof,
All the buses of CUD use Diesel engines,
in CSR having gasoline engines and they wore either rele uipp few buses
Diesel engines after the war or put out of use if their repair a,stcx..
pensive.
4/. Conclusions
The motor pool of CSAD9 Nat. Corp as to the military use:
In view of the motorisation and mechanization of Czechoslovak army may
be presumed that the increase of CUD motor poel is titly connected
with changes in the army and that the whole automobileghtransportati?n
in CSR, be it CSAD or transportation by communal enterprises, is son.
trolled by Czechoslovak Gen Staff an is the ease of RR transportation.
The control in CSD /Csechoslevak State Railways/ is done by VZTV ,li..
tary RR Headquarters located in all im ertant RR crossings/. As to the
CUD the control will be done by KW /County Military
perform supervision of all the automobile transporttion n~theocouunty,
Prior to 1949, when CSR introduced county administrations and the system
of KVV and OVV /County and District Military
motor vehicles, either private or Hoadquartms's/~ all the
called VSKti1/ /Mtlita governmental, were controlled by so
called ry Evidence Commission of Motor Vehicles/ attached
every DOV /Recruiting District HQ/. In 1949 the system of DOV was
abolished and replaced by KW and OW and the activity of VVKMV was
transferred under the jurisdiction of KW.
During a certain period there was done s? called conscription and classi.?
fioation of all motor vehicles, usually after two years, and the result
served as a bases to make mobilization plans and lists of muter vehicles)(
because, according to military directives of 1949, the following vehicles
came into considerations trucks and tractors of all t
passenger care from 1000 oem up and motorcycles from 175ssondup.eIt isment,
possible that the level has been lowered new including thus oars of 800 sea
and motorcycles of 150 ccm, as hinted to me in the course held by VRKMV.
After the nationalisation of all the transportation the activity of VZKMV
was considerably relieved because all nationalized firms must keep perio?.
die reports on the number of vehicles in operation and in repair as it is
with the CSD where reports en engines and cars were made three times a week
during the war and twice a week afterwards, along with so called "wain re-
port" every 10 days including the following data:
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a/ total number of steam engines
b/ number of fast, passenger, freight and local engines
c/ number of engines ad b/ in operation
d/ number of engines ad b/ in minor repair
e/ number of engines ad b/ in maim repair
f/ fuel consumption
g/ lubricant consumption
--Reports of a similar nature are probably sent by all automobile trans-
portation firms. One sopy is also sent to the KW /for control of mo-
tor vehicles so that it has a constant survey of drivable car in mo-
tor pools of nationalized firms.
The transportation by private passenger cars is very weak. First of all
there are restrictions and then high prises of fuel.
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to enlist motor vehicles of nationalized firms and that every transpor-
tation firm of CSAD or local commmal enterprise must deliver a oeratin
number of vehicles to the army in case of mobilization.
these nationalized autetransportation firms are a sort of
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There are several alternatives in ease of mobilization as to how and
what quantity of vehicles will be delivered by nationalized transporta-
tion firms to the army:
a/ every firm will deliver now the settled number of vehicles /including
drivers/ to a pro-determined place and will be responsible for their
drivability.
b/ in areas near the front special orders have already been issued/ the
number of delivered vehicles will probably be such higher than in in..
land areas*
c/ It is possible that in case of necessity the army will confiscate
An a certain area/ all the vehicles of CSAD and somsanal enterprises
and transportation firms of other areas will have to send in their
vehicles to maintain the minimal transportation requirements.
Of course, these are not all the possibilities of how to use the motor pool
nationalized firms. All depends on immediate situation of the army and her
requirements as to motor vehicles.