DETAILS OF WASSERFALL ROAD TRAIN; PERSONALITIES AT ELEKTROBAU AG

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R001900060010-3
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 2006
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 25, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

COUNTRY Gsrnmrq (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Details of Wasserfall Road, Train;
Personalities at Elektrobau AG
PLACE
ACQUIRED L
DATE OF INFO.
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. As of 32.9nptember 1948 only one Wasserfail road train, consisting of eleven
trailers, had been completed. The first trailer was sent to Moscow ter rail
via Brest-Litovsk in May 1948. The last trailer vas completed for dispatch
on 20 August 1948.
2. Becausd of the lower height clearance on the Polish railroad Votes Reiahsbahn
flat, oars could not,, be used for this purpose (when loaded on Reichsbehn flat
cars, the trailers stood 25 an higher than the parmittea clearance), and
? Polish flat t oars, with the load-carrying eurftoe monk between the bogies, were
obtained with eme difficulty.
3. The eleven trailers, originally designed by the firm of ScI" 'sn as circus
trailers, are identical in outward appearance, and are painted dark green with
white roofs. Their official designation is "Ce' .
4. The trailers contain the following apparatus:
Trailer No. I - Saloon and telephones exchange, radio and record playas,
Trailer No. II)-. Individual test apparatus for the fallowing pieces of miuIls-
and III borne oontrol gears
Rudder servos Dssiggmetian 1.04
1.09
Relay plate 1.08
tiizer 1.07
Course-giving motor ? 1.03
Trailer No. Iv - of Waesaatsil control aompeslment (1.00) (n4saw29sat~-srs
the Sloktrobau AG) fitted with the following missile-bosh .
oaponentss
course.-giving actor
Gyro
!fain distributor
Dseigs .t&on 1.03
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Radder poteaticmetor 3.10
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rotor gemeretor, , .12
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Qovernor for above 1. 1,33
I terconneotor for grouad test 1.34
Wirtng berm ga 1,15
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ciseoa3te or the ebdV*-Mut3,eoed apparatus.
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Be" 21.- Their tlni sh suggested that their ftimetioa was
purely it tdo 1. )
Trailer No. V .i leetr3.oal~!!"t 7 equipped with standard uospeeiauaesd)
tom.
Trailer No. VI .? This trailer was supplied w thout a * tue, but with suitable
elect rlcdl c 0 eat:ions for the plamwtd contents, which v
to be ftted by Teohmioa3 EBro 33. According to a. list supplied
tv E1.ekt6b u AG to enable them to fit aprroprlMo wiring,
planned. contents usms
River 'ieuses
TrenendtUor !K!
Eleotrioal K pp , ePo1" (3'F Polar Kntppoi)
Supply watt a Dods
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Trailer No]. 912?. .*at ica1 NUM14- : -PLM bawbnvfhfw~ tit.. .a. .,..
15 and 3.5 KW. i X13 ed .y .? ..i n+ "if
separately by the Blokt 'beu AG, for
use with the ewito'14 ng an4 distri but{da equip,emt installed in
the 't iler'. PZ' Vis3.OU Sias r.*e1e for power ati
AD
380 V
0gye1ee
AC
220 Q
50 Otc3ba
AC.'
36 V
500
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27 V
Designation 1.06
1.07
1.08
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12 Aft
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Meeting the frangi, n brans velvw in the ~~pp y uystem.
The motbramm (apeealmsns. of tihioh were available In the Elektrobau
AG) were for fittings of 75 mm and 35 zee, diameter. Tw~enty-
five mea tePe axe , ton of wh ob read tO 400 atm. There
are also feoording manometers rerdin to 40 and A0 atm, p and
pumps for testing the manateters. A ecrude V-.tube test apparata
designed ti3r the Soviet enginser Pa1ikin at S rshaueen and ,
men otured there, is also ind2ndeed.
Trai] No. IX - Wq;j n. Wpm t includes:
3 lathes
1 milling mew
3 wises
I drill
1 grinder.
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a. Aialtty (etvil ), mewl mar resident in Niosoow, deAignar of
the Wasserfali road train.
b. Aear eh, 1Aaar (civiliaun) t d pub pht Bert resident in -, solely
intereoted in the ooaten b, of X40. 1Q,
e? Kolemniahenka, General, frc*a SNA TbkaIIqql*,
d. N'ieha v, Qol,. Believed -teotmicai. Apparently Inter cted mly in the
painting and deooaratian oi' the t mile".
e. Vorobyov, Prof. Stated to be In O barge of all Technical Boma in QOVMW
Resident in B r1in. D14 tlot epeek to Germsn staff. ?
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