THE RESITA WORKS IN RUMANIA

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1. The Rumanian name for the Resita Works is Uzinele de Fier Resita (UtR).
The plant was established in the mid-18th century, during the Austro-
Hungarian monarchy. Prior to 1918 the plant and its assets were con-
trolled by the Austrian State Railroad Company (STEG). In 1920 the
Rumanians founded the corporation Uzinele de Fier si Domenii din Resita, ;.
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Organization of the Plant
2. The General Management was partially trans errs from Bucharest to Resita.
A man named Loncear was reportedly the general manager in Resita. He is
a well-trained Communist but very incompetent and unpopular. The managing
engineer is Ivancenco.
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History and Ownership
The Rumanian State too over the managemen
o the plant after 1941. The Reichswerke Herman Goering corporation con-
trolled a large portion of th war. The plant was
nationalized on 11 June 1948.
3. Most of the establishments of the company that are located in Timisoara
are purely technical offices.
it. The operational manager in Resita is Ion Popet, who is 40 years of age.
He was a specialist workman in 19390 Originally a Social-Democrat, he
was imprisoned twice prior to 1944, but is now a good Communist pro-
pagandist. His office is responsible for the smooth functioning of all
factories of the plant. The office occupies 13 rooms on the second floor
of the management building. Bontos is secretary to the manager. He is
an old permanent employee of the management and is anti-Communist.
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5. Stanatiev is in charge of personnel management. He is from Timisoara
and is a pro-Hungarian Bulgarian. He worked in the Resita Works as
a welder from 1936 until assigned to his present post. He is a
capable worker and was given his job because no suitable Communist was
available.
6. Dr. Ion Baca has been in charge of bookkeeping managepent since 1947,
He is a capable employee who was formerly a National-Czarist but who
is now a registered Communist.
7. Stoicescu, now on leave from his position as Professor at the Timisoara
Technical University, is in charge of the construction and planning
department.
8. The mining department is under Secretary Dinteanu, an old and competent
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employee. He is anti-Communist. All mines of the Resita Works, in-
cluding coal and iron mines, are under his department.
The department in charge of forests and lands is in Oravita. This
office has charge of administering and operating the plant's lands,
which cover a total area of about one thousand square kilometers,
Included in the categories under the jurisdiction of the office are
forestry, sawmills, charcoal production, lime kilns, sand and gravel
pits, granite,marble and limestone quarries, vineyards, various stock
raising establishments, et cetera. The lands no longer belong to the
Resita works, but are under the Ministry of Agriculture,
10. The Resita works formerly had shares in numerous enterprises, some of
which they founded themselves, and which included such organizations as
the MMargina-Resita, Inc., and many other local establishments. Their
shares in the Astra Works and the Galati shipyard were also important
but were cancelled when the entire industry was nationalized.
Sections and Personnel in Resita
3.1. The Resita works consists of a large number of technical and administrative
departments. Each of these departments is usually termed a factory, such
as locomotive factory, mechanical factory, et cetera.
12. Departments of the Resita works included the followings
Departments Head of Department
L- Blast furnaces Eng..Stanescu
L-Steel works Eng.- Kloeckel, ethnic German group
foundry Eng. Mikula;. rt.
Coking plant
-Gas works
L Steel hardening
-Rolling mill
Tool shop
-Rolling mill for tires and wheels
Cylinder construction
- Bridge building
-Wheel factory (locomotive and car)
`-Engine factory (machine tools and
Diesel engines)
,,,Locomotive factory
Factory for oil drilling tools
A--Tool factory .
-Electric motor factory
Pattern shop
Fireproof bricks
Briquette factory
Replacement parts and components
Transformer department
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Eng. Gheorghiu
Eng. Parau
Manager Niculescu
Eng. Manu
Pavel Pas cu.
Eng. Matelescu
Eng. Popa; Eng. Lozi.oiu
Eng. Micula
Operating engineer,Eng. Wiskomsky.
Eng. Popovici
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Main storehouse of Resita works
Laboratories
Cement factory
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L.-Mechanical maintenance Eng. Ghervescu
Guard and fire department
CFU railroad works
Motor transport service Eng. I onescu
v-Accounting section (Hollerith
machines) Mr. Bogdan
Construction department
Quality inspection and acceptance Eng. Paran
Soviet Control
13. As the Resita works are under Soviet control, several Soviet offices
are maintained in the plant for operation, inspection, and acceptance
of the production. The Soviet manager is Sergienko, a steel manufacturing
specialist He supervises about sixteen
Russian engineers and tecnnlol.ans wno nave charge of production and
inspection of quality of material, especially during the latter stages.
From one to three.Soviets are assigned to control service in the most im-
portant departments of the plant. The number of the Soviets assigned to
each department depends on its size and importance. Minor departments
are subject to occasional inspection by the Soviets. Al]. Soviet personnel
and families live in a building inside the plant area. Food is supplied
at the expense of the works management and is much better than that 71
given the Rumanian workmen and employees. Soviet Colonel Shusdin, with
two Soviet officers under his command, also has certain duties within the
plant. His office is located in the management building. His actual
duties are not. known, but he seems to be a high control officer as he
frequently inspects all departments:
Work Force
.14. During the war the number of engineers and similar employees was 1,2400;
laborers numbered 19,000. From 1945 to 1947 there were about 1,200
skilled laborers and from 15,000-to 16,000 workmen. There were 800
skilled employees and 12,000 laborers, including apprentices but ex-
cluding miners, in 19218. These 800 specialists included about 80 graduate
engineers, and about 2400 technicians; all others were permanent employees.
There were 1,2400 to 1,500 apprentices in 1948. From 2400 to 500 apprentices
are hired annually.
15. About sixty percent of all employees are Rumanians. Germans comprise
about thirty percent and Hungarians about ten percent of the work force.
Location and Traffic Conditions
16. Resita lies in the valley of the Berzava River. The UDR, works covers
the northeastern area of the town. The town is 220 meters above sea
level; the hills surrounding the town are about 500 meters high.
17. There are railroad spur tracks in the plant area. A narrow-gauge railroad
line, owned by the plant, runs for about thirty kilometers,leading from
Resita up the Berzava valley to Valiug where it branches southward to the
coal mine of Seoul and northwaW to the Delinesti iron mine. The line in
known as OFU (Caile Ferate Uzinele).
Mines and Accessory Works
18. Mines and accessory plants include the following:
a. Doman pit coal mine: Four kilometers south of Resita; about one
thousand employees.
b. Seoul pit coal mine: About seven kilometers southeast of Resita;
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c. Lupac pit coal mine: Near Dognecea, 7 to 8 kilometers southwest
of Resita; 600 employeeao
d. Anina pit coal mine: About 22 kilometers south of Resita.
e. Delineati iron mine: About 17 kilometers northeast of Resita;
approximately 300 employees.
f. Ocnele iron mine: About 11 kilometers west-northwest of Resita;
approximately 800 employees.
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Factories, Technical Installations and Buildings
19. Group Is called the smelting shop, includes two blast furnaces which are
located north of the Eruga canal, which runs underground at this spot.
These furnaces are 30 meters high and have an interior diameter of six
meters. They have a capacity of 120 tons per eight hours, and are water
cooled. The blowing arrangements are separate. Charging facilities
consist of two traveling cranes, each 35 meters high, driven by two
-electric motors connected in parallel and each of 80 horsepower. The
ore dump and two ore mine are 100 meters north of the blast furnaces.
Coke is shipped aboard cars owned by the coking plant. Exhaust gases
from the blast furnaces are led through pipes to the furnaces of the
steel plant.
20. The steel plant is a large shop of 100 x 30 x 20 meters. A Bessemer
converter and seven open-hearth furnaces are in the northern half of the
shop. Furnace number one, with a capacity of 70 tons, was built in
1937. All other furnaces are older and smaller than number one. Two of
the furnaces have a capacity of 50 tons each, one has a capacity of 40
tons, one 30 tons, and two of 25 tons each. Five of the furnaces are
usually in operation, but two are usually under repair. The open-hearth
furnaces are said to stand a thousand' charges each, but because of weak
materials they can be used for only 500 charges. Six cranes are used to
charge the open-hearth furnaces.
21. The steel foundry is in the southern half of the shop. The casting is
done on bridges. From six to eight crucibles are filled on each bridge.
Eight traveling cranes are used to hoist the filled crucibles. These
cranes were built in the plant. Four cranes have a lift of ten tons
each; two cranes have a capacity of seventy tons each; one can lift
fifty tons, and the last can carry forty-five tons.
22. The coking plant is 80 meters north of the steel plant and consists of
sixteen ovens.
23. Theacmnonia factory is a subsidiary of the coke plant and consists of two
shops.. The plant was completed shortly before the outbreak of World War
II.
2J. The collecting plant for ore briquetting is fitted with a rotary tubular
kiln which consists of a tube 70 meters long and 2.5 meters in diameter.
The inside of this kiln is lined with firebricks. The kiln is turned
on its males by two electric motors of 100 horsepower each. Dally
capacity is between 150 and 200 tons. The kiln must be repaired after
about two weeks continuous service. Coal dust is used for firing.
25. The foundry is an old building of 100 x 30 x 25 meters. Two electric
furnaces, each of five tons capacity, and an oil fueled furnace of ten
tons capacity, are in the northern section of the plant. The middle
section of the foundry has two gas-fired iron smelting furnaces for
making special alloys; these furnaces each have a capacity of ten tons.
The southern section of the shop has six smelting furnaces for metal
casting. Each has a capacity of five tons.
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26. The foundry warehouse is 25 x 12 meters.
27. The building for cleaning the castings is equipped with dust-blowers,
grinding machines, four German-made cutters, two sharpenersp and five
electric welders. There are five cranes, each with a ten-ton lift,
in front of the shop.
28. The power station is known as Gas Electric Central and is 18 x 10 x 10
meters. Equipment consists of a 3,000 kilowatt generator driven by a
12 cyclnnder Diesel engine.
29. The mechanical workshop and offices for the furnace section is a two-
story stone building. The workshop is on the first floor. It is
equipped with three lathes, boring machines, an apparatus for autogenous
welding, and one blacksmith shop. A precision mechanical workshop for
the manufacture and repair of piece parts for the entire section is on
the second floor. The technical offices and drawing rooms are also on
the second floor. This building is about 80 meters from the blast
furnaces.
30. The power station is 50 x 20 x 10 meters and has three transformers.
Two of the transformers are of 5$500 watts each, while one is of
3,000 watts. There is a German-made air compressor and a compressor
with four to six pistons, driven by a 100 horsepower motor0 The com-
pressed air is used for cleaning the castings. Other equipment includes
three dynamo generators made by the Ganz Company, Budapest, and one steam
tbine.
31. Two gas containers, located north of the plant, receive exhaust gases
from the coking plant and carry them to the steel factory and to other
sections.
32. The office building houses the signing-in office, the clinical hospital,
porters, and the fire department.
33. There is a group of eight gas producers, each of which is six meters high
and two meters in diameter. Coal dust is burned in these producers and
the gas is conveyed to the gas containers..-
34. Group II includes the rolling mill, the roller paths, the cylinder
;boring section, at ceteraa
35. The rolling mill is in the same building as the wheel factory, the
cylinder boring shop, and the transformers. The building is 200 x 200
x 20 meters. The mill has several cranes, each capable of lifting up
to ten tons. Production includes rails, crosspieces (ties), and sheet
iron and sheet steel of all sizes. Roller paths for thick, medium, and
thin plates are available.
36. There is a two-story brick building, 40 x 20 x 12 meters, in which the
investment section, the printing office, and the main fire department
are located.
37. The thereto-technical section and the research station is 20 x 10 x 10
meters. Almost all machines are modern and made by Siemens-Schuckert.
The section registers all thereto-technical processes, checks all blast
furnaces and smelting furnaces, the gas burning and other installations,
and prepares appropriate graphs.
38. The mechanical repair shop, 40 x 15 x 8-meters, has its own welding shy
on the.first floor. A precision mechanical workshop is on the second
floor.
39. The electric welding shop is 15 x 6 x 6 meters.
40. The pattern shop is temporarily located in some barracks which were
erected to replace some of the permanent bt l ings which had been razed
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100 x 80 z 20 meters. There are over twenty lathes, some metal planers,
several large and small cranes, blacksmith tools, and one electric
furnace, 9 z 3 meters,
142. The tire and wheel disk rolling mill is 100 x 110 x 20 meters. It inP
cludes annealing and hardening plants, pneumatic hammers and electric
and motor compressors. Tires and wheel disks for railroad cars are
produced.
43. The main transformer station is supplied with current from Anina, the
Valox hydraulic power station, and receives 50,000 volts. There are
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There is an electrical maintenance- section and electric motor depot.
The locomotive depot of the CFU is 100 x 60 meters. The CFU has about
30 steam locomotives and 10 Diesel locomotives.
146, The central warehouse is a concrete building of 50 z 20 x 8 meters.
Offices are in the western section of this building. The warehouse is
used for the storage of valuable imported goods, such as electrodes, wires,
insulators, bulbs, drive belts, et cetera,
147. Group III, called the locomotive factory, includes the locomotive factory,
the briquette factory, the new shop, the villa of the general manager,
the transformer building, and the technological laboratory.
148, The locomotive factory is a building of 120 x 120 x 30 meters. Parts
for locomotives are manufactured in this section. The plant, which also
assembles the locomotives, is equipped with several pneumatic hammere,
riveting machines, welding apparatus, cranes, rollers, et cetera. There
are two test tracks for standard gauge and Soviet gauge.
149. The briquette factory is a wooden building with brick pillars. It is
70 x 20 meters and is equipped with grinding mine for coal dust, coal
dust screens, and briquetting presses. The coal dust is carried on a
narrow gauge railroad line from the Doman coal mine through a tunnel
five kilometers long.
O. The new shop was erected during World War II and is a concrete building.
150 x 100 x 30 meters. It contains the following sections:
a. Manufacturing section for production of oil drilling machinery,
b. A section of the locomotive factory, manufacturing axles, bearings,
pumps, handwheels, et cetera, for locomotives.
Co Quality inspection and acceptance section. All finished products of
the Resita works are inspected and accepted. The section is equipped
with quality inspection devices, test stands, and test benches.
d. An apprentices school.
51." The villa of the general manager, a three--story brick building 114 z 8
meters, is situated on a hill outside of the plant area.
52., ,The transformer building is an 18 z 8 motor brick structure located south
of the locomotive factory. It is equipped with four or six transformers.
53. The technological laboratory is in an 8 x 6 meter brick building south of
the new shop. It is equipped with X-ray apparatus for use in examining
locomotive parts.
514. Group IV, called the Motor factory, includes nineteen departments.
55.
The blacksmith shop makes various kinds of forged materials for all
sections of the plant, especially for the locomotive factory. It is
equipped with forge furnaces, forging hammers and cranes.
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56. The machine tool factory is 100 x 30 x 15 meters and is called the
old machine factory. Products of this factory include piece parts
for is thes and Diesel engines, small machine tools and various other
items.
57. Electric motors are manufactured in"the electric motor factory, which
is in a 60 x 20 meter building.
58. The chief engineer of the bridge building shop is one Matescu, who
is a member of the Communist Party as a matter of form. His staff
includes 12 engineers, 18 technicians, 12 shop foremen, and 700 workmen.
Work is done in three shifts. Many workmen are also employed on bridge
assembly outside the plant. The most important span erected since the
war is a railroad and highway bridge over the Prut River, between
Galati and Reni. This bridge required about four months for complete
assembly. The bridge building department also manufactures parts for
locomotives, boilers, tanks, et cetera.
59. The tool factory is in a 60 x 20 meter building. The head of the
department is a chief engineer who supervises about ten technicians
and administrative men, seven shop foremen, and about 200 laborers,
Rumanians comprise about 50 percent of the work force,'while ho percent
are Germans. The section is equipped with test laboratories and
precision machines. All types of tools are produced.
60. The offices of the management of Group IV are in a separate building,,
61. The managers villa is 30 x 20 meters and is located on a hill, 120
meters southwest of the locomotive factory,
62. The accounting office is in a building about 60 meters east of the
management building.
63. The office building of the bridge building section has about 30
technical and administrative employees.
64. New bridges are assembled and tested at the testing and assembly grounds
of the bridge building section. There are several cranes which are
used for assembly works
65. The office building of the construction and planning management is a
two-story building of 20 x 10 meters.
66c Five charcoal-fired gas generators are located about seven meters south
of the blacksmith shops
67. The pressing shop is south of the gas generators. It is located in a
60 x 20 meter brick building. Pieces for locomotive parts are pressed
here.
68. The transformer house is southwest of the pressing shop and is in a
20 x 8 meter building. Three large transformers, manufactured in the
plant, are installed in the house. These transformers are used to
transform the 55,000 volt current from Anina to 500 volts. Five other
transformers change the 500 volt current to 385, 220, and 35 volts.
69. Welding operations for the machine tool factory are performed in the
welding shop. Employees include a shop foreman and six welders.
70. The small steel hardening shop is located in a 20 x 10 x 7 meter stone
building six meters west of the machine tool factory. It includes the
following departments:,
a. Office of the shop foremen; equipped with Vickers steel testing
machine utilizing the Brinell system.
b. Adjoining auxilliary rooms.
c. A small blacksmith shop equipped with an electric hammer. Products
inclu cutters for lathes.
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d. A file-cutting shop equipped with twelve German-made file-cutting
machines.
e. A bath for nickel-plating work pieces.
71. The motor repair shop is located on the bank of the Berzava River,
between the tool factory and the office building of the bridge building
section. It is a one-story building, 15 x 6 x 4 meters.
72. The wheel factory is 120 x 50 x 12 meters. Equipment includes numerous
lathes, milling machines, boring machines, planers, at cetera. Tires
and wheel disks coming from-the foundry are given a finishing treatment
here and are then assembled as complete locomotive wheels. Personnel,
working in three shifts, include a chief engineer and about 500 workmen.
73. The apprentices home is a three-story, 30 x 15 x 15 meter building-
An average of 400 apprentices use the home.
74. Scattered installations include such departments as the firebrick
factory, the concrete factory, and the scrapyard.
75. The installations producing firebricks consists of two buildings, one
20 x 8 meters, and the other 70 x 30 meters. The buildings are equipped
with mills, presses, pumps and brick kilns. There is a chief of the
department, five foremen, and 300 workmen. Production of firebricks
started in 1938. Prior to that time the plant imported bricks from
Czechoslovakia. Present production meets plant requirements and is
sufficient to supply the iron and steel mills in Arad, Hunedoara, Brasov
and Oradea.
76. The concrete factory is 100 meters east of the ecrapyard. It consists
of an office and factory building. Personnel include one factory fore-
man, ten permanent employees, and 110 laborers. Work is done in three
shifts. Production is solely for plant requirements.
77. The sorapyard covers an area of 200 x 50 meters and is not under cover.
There are 120 employees, including the.head of the yard, eight permanent
employees, and 120 laborers. Work is done in three shifts. Domestic and
imported scrap is carefully sorted at this installation. There is a
separate office building at the yard.
78. The oxygen factory employs fifty men who work in three shifts. Oxygen
is produced for the plants own requirements.
79. The lumber yard, 1,500 x 100 meters, has n? employees, including the
head of the yard, 16 permanent employees, and 100 laborers.
80. The Margins Resita wood distilling factory produces vinegar and alcohol.
There are 300 employees. The plant area covers 30,000 square meters,
Production is for the domestic market.
81. A group of fuel oil tanks is south of the blacksmith shop.
82. Machines and engines are about 70 percent German-made. Those manufactured
at the Resits works total about 28 percent. All machines are in good
condition.
Sources of Electricity
83. The name of the power station is Velox, but it is also called E3rebla.
It is located five kilometers east of Resita. The name is derived from
the Velox system of heating boilers and/or from the location at Grebla.
The building is 25 x 15 x 10 meters. Two steam turbines are fed by
three oil burning boilers of the Velox system. Water for the turbines
comes from the Berzava barrage dam. The 50,000 volts produced are
conducted to the main transformer house through an underground cable.
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A spur track connects the station with the Resita-Valiug works railroad.
81i. The Gas Electrical Central supplies the town with current.
85. The power station in Anina is equipped with Velox turbines and supplies
the transformer house with current of 55,000 volts.
86. Work on a new barrage dam for a new hydroelectric power station was
started in 1947. This new station is to be 30 kilometers upstream from
Resita.
Raw materials
87. Iron ore comes from plant owned mines in Delinesti, Ocnele, De Fier,
Chelar and from abroad.
88. Pit coal is supplied by plant owned mines in Anina, Seoul, Doman, and
Armenia, which is located 28 kilometers south of Caransebes. High-grade
coke must be-lWported from abroad. Two carloads of coke arrive from
Czechoslovakia each weeko
89. Rumanian fuel oil is supplied by Sovrompetrol. Twelve tank cars arrive
daily.
90. The chemical laboratory of the Resita works has produced sufficient
electrodes for the electric furnaces since 19143.
91. All scrap collected in Rumania and discarded war materials are delivered
to the Resita works, where the scrap is assorted in the scrapyard.
New Construction and Possibilities of Conversion
92. The Soviets did not dismantle any part of the Resita works. There has
been a steady enlargement of the works since the war. Numerous buildings
have been completely rebuilt and many new cranes have been erected.
New gas pipes have been laid, blast and steel furnaces have been repaired,
workmen's dwellings have been enlarged, and many turbines and generators
have been installed,
93. The Resita works took about two years to convert from war production to
full peacetime production. A change from peace to war production
allegedly will take one month, providing the organization bas an adequate
stock of the materials required,
Production
94. The plant had a daily production rate prior to 19140 of about 900 tons of
steel from the seven steel furnaces. The electric furnaces produced
about 150 tons of special steel per day.
95. Finished products included locomotives for domestic use and for export
to Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, propeller shafts and ship's propellers for
the Rumanian shipyards, electric motors, steam engines, milling
machines, gas engines, Diesel engines, Hanomag engines for agricultural
and industrial tractors, transformers, tools of all kinds, boring gear
for the Rumanian oil industry, and bridges, which were also delivered to
Yugoslavia and Bulgaria.
96. Wartime production included 75 and 120 mm guns, 120 mm coast defense guns,
75 mm anti-ai aft guns, 75 mm mortars, gun and mortar projectiles,
submarine mines, parts and caterpillars for tanks assembled in Germany,
about 100 Bungescu sighting mechanisms for anti-aircraft and coastal guns,
parts for submarines, 250 kilogram bombs, ammunition., and repair of all
types of war materiel.
97. A certain degree of peacetime production continued during the war. The
1943-1944 production was about 200 percent of that reached in 1939-19140.
Daily production of steel reached 1,800 tons in 1918.
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98, After 1914 the production dropped considerably below; that of 1939
because of the shortage of material and the deportation to the
Soviet Union of specialists belonging to the ethnic German group,
the majority of the German specialists were returned to the plant
after a request by the Rumanian Government,
99. Conversion to peacetime production was completed in March 1946.
Production again-attained the 1938 standard in late 1947. The Soviets
insisted on a rapid increase in production. Particular stress was
laid on the manufacture of raw iron, raw steel, rolled material,
locomotives, railroad wheels, tools, boring apparatus for the oil
industry, electric motors and bridges,
100. MMontly production of locomotives is alleged to be seven Soviet gauge
and two Rumanian standard gauge locomotives. Three locomotives are
also repaired. Locomotives intended for delivery to the USSR are
built according to Soviet plans. Upon completion of these locomotives
they are sent to Iasi to a special workshop in the Socola railroad
station. The locomotives are gauged for Soviet trackage in this shop
and sent to the USSR.
101. Approximately 95 percent of the present production is consigned to the
Soviet Union,
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1. The factory is no longer the property of the Rumanian State. It
is now affiliated with Sovrommetal Inc., and the Soviet interests
are the decisive factor, as is true with Sovrompetrol and other
Soviet-Rumanian corporations,
2. Prior to the break between Yugoslavia and the Cominform, Rumania
had imported iron ore from Yugoslavia. This situation has made it
necessary for Rumania to import the ore from Krivoi Rog. Imports
from there amounted to about 100,000 tons in 19147.
3. The 1950 schedule calls for the production of 140,000 of raw iron
and 300,000 tons of raw steel, most of which is to come from the
Resita works,
14.
The Resita works, together with the iron and steel works in Calan-
Hunedoara and Nadrag, has enabled Rumania to create comparatively
extensive heavy industries since the first world war.
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114.
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Workers House p committee, trade union, club, et cetera)
Resita-Uzine State railroad station
Resita State railroad station
Management of works railroad CPU and main technical offices
Police (Militia)
Security Police
Headquarters of UTM (Juvenile Workers Union)
Town hall
"Apollo" :motion picture theater
Two blast furnaces
.Steel mill
Coking plant
Ammonia plant
Agglomerating plant
Foundry
Storehouse for foundry
Cleaning shop for cast pieces
Gas Central power station
Three cooperative buildings
Office and workshop of blast furnaces section
Rolling mill
Fire department, printing office, investment section
Thermo-technical section and test section
Storage depot
Mechanical workshop.
Welding shop
Pattern making shop
Cylinder manufacture (lathes) and tools forge
Tire and wheel disk plant
Transformer station
Section: Electrical maintenance. work; depot for electric motors
Locomotive works
Blacksmith shop
Machine tools and Diesel engine plant
Electric motors plant
Bridge building section
Tools workshop
Refractory-bricks plant
Cement plant
Motor vehicles service (garages, workshops)
Briquette factory
Office of foundry. Production control service
Steam turbine generator station
Two gas holders
Chenical laboratory
Signing-in office, hospital, janitor
Locomotive shed of GFU railroad
Management (two buildings)
New hail (oil drilling instruments, apprentices'school, et cetera)
Accounting section
Office building of bridge building section
Testing grounds of bridge section
Villa of general manager
Workmen's dwelling houses
Workmen's dwelling houses
Engineers' dwelling block)
Gas furnaces
Fuel oil tanks
Fuel oil tanks
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60. Scrapyard
6c)a.. ScraPyard office
61. Designing and planning management
62. Caliuc transshipment station
63. Motion picture theater
64. ore dump
65. Stravila bridge
66. Undetermined
67. Gas generators
68. Pressing shop
69. Transformer house
70. Undetermined
71. Welding shop
72. Small steel hardening shop
73. Engine repair shop
74. Wheel factory
75. Apprentices' home
76. Lumber yard
77. Margins Resita wood distilling factory
78. Central storehouse
79. Fuel oil tanks
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