BUDAPEST MACHINE TOOL FACTORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000200080047-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: July 12, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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Budapest Naehine Tool Factory
TNIS NCUMEMT CONTAINS'INIOGIar1ON A-/ C INS N NATIONAL OE ENSE
OF THE UNITEO STATES. T THE MEAN INS 01 TITLE IS, SECTIONS 718
NS 781. OF THE U.S. CODE AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION 01 REVS.
ATION OF ITS CONYtNre TO ON RECEIPT 8Y AN UNAUTMORI2ED PERSON IS
THIS Is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
DATE D I STR. /:. Jul 1954
NO. OF PAGES 2
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REPORT NO.
1. The Budapest machine tool factory (Forgdcsblo Szereslimok gyyira) is located
at 139 Fereno Reitter utca (street)? in the 13th district of Budapest. The
factory ,existed before World War II but was comparati.vely unimportant.
In 19116 the war damages were repaired an the factory was enlarged and modernised.
2. The factory consists of a in building and two smaller ones. The main building,
at the corner of Ferenc Reitter and Kesakeno streets, has four stories and is
L-shaped. The offices are on the Ferenc Reitter street side.- The wing on
Iesskeno street contains: In the basement, sorting department; first floor,
grinding and milling shops, maintenance and repairs; 2nd floor, heavy lathe shop,
precision workshop, packing room; 3rd floor, lathe department, grinding shop,
precision grinding shop; 11th floor, thread-cutting shop, distribution. There is
a small grinding shop in the court at the right of the entrance. The welding
shop is on the ground floor near the Kesskeno street entrance. The scrap storage
is in the open between the two smaller buildings.
3. Machinery and Bqujpmient. In the milling shop there are six large milling mach1125X1
eight demist-type heavy chuck lathes, two planing machines, a Skoda turret lathe,
and a large drill press. The grinding shop has 40 grinding machines. The heavy
lathe department *as 15 heavy lathes, 8 small milling machines, 3 small, turret
lathes, a large thread-cutting machine, 5 small thread-cutting machines, and 3
grinding machines, In the repair shop there are 11 chuck lathes, 3 milling
machines, 2 drill presses, 3 grinding machines, and 6 Joiner's benches.
4. Production. The factory makes various kinds of boring and cutting machines for
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export. It produces cutter heads, thread-cutting dies, reaming bits, groove
cutters, gear bits, taps, twist drills, die heads, pitch cutters, reamers
(to an accuracy of 1-1000 mm) etc. About 300 cutter heads, 350 to 400 thread-
cutting dies, 350-to 400 taps, and 150 to 200 reamers are produced daily. The
production rejected as defective by the Soviet inspecting commission, amounting
to about 15 percent, is used in Hungarian industry.
Personnel. The factory employs about 1,500 hands, of whom 10 to 15 percent are
women,besides 100 apprentices. :'here are two 8-hour shifts. Sunday is a day of
rest. The manager of the factory is Director Jjnos Gyetvai, about 50 years old,
a former workman and a Communist. The head of.the repair shop is Hale Farkas, about
45 years old, who worked up from foreman to engineer. The head of the grinding
shop is Jdnos G bor, a foreman about 40 years old. Ordinary workers are paid
about 700 forints a month. Skilled workmen are paid on fulfillment of quotas; they
average 1,000 t9 1,'_)0 forints per month. Skilled workers assigned to special work
are paid 4.50 to :7 forints an hour. The factory has its own canteen, where the
midday meal costs 120 forints a month.
Security measures, The factory grounds are surrounded by a stone wall two meters
high, topped with barbed wire. Industrial police guard the entrance night and
day, and only adult strangers after seeing their personal passes and after inquiring
of the managements Workers and other employees are required to show their passes
with photographs Upon entering and leaving.
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