THE RESITA METALLURGICAL COMBINE, RESITA

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• Publication Date: August 24, 1960
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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Tbis material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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SUBJECT The Resita Metallurgical Combine, DATE DISTR. 24 August 1960
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1. The Resita Metallurgical Combine, an old installation which has been enlarged,
modernized, and diversified continually since the end of World War II, is
located in the center of Resita, on both sides of the main street. The area
encompassing the combine measures approximately 700 by 2,000 meters, ex-
cluding the "Special Steel" Section, about two kilometers north of the main
combine area. The combine is directly connected by rail with the Resita
railway station.
2. The Resita Metallurgical Combine employes about 25,000 civilians, including
management and technical personnel, and white and blue-collar workers.
About 300 (perhaps more) military, personnel are employed in the "Special
Problems departments."
3. Civilian production of the Resita Metallurgical Combine includes the follow-
ing :
a. Resita-class locomotives, which have four driving wheels, are oil or
coal-fired, and have a maximum speed of 80 kph. Production began in
1957 and is now four to six units per month. Soviet-gauge locomotives
for the USSR are produced at the rate of two to three per month, and
slightly smaller models with European gauge for Communist China are
produced at two to three per month. Locomotives for Communist China
are transported by water and loaded at Constanta, while those for the
USSR are transported on special flatcars with two 3-axle swivel trucks
each. The flatcars are ten to twelve meters long, each has a 100 ton
capacity, and they are built by the Gheorghi Dimitrov Shop in Arad.
be Locomotives for the Hunedoara Iron and Steel Combine, marked CSH (Hune-
doara Iron and Steel Combine) or C2. Exact specifications and rate of
production are unknown, but these locomotives are used for switching
within the combine, and are standard-gauge and smaller than "road"
locomotives.
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c. Narrow-gauge, coal-fired locomotives used for lumbering; produced at a
rate of four to five per month.
d. Turbines of an dnidentified model, for the USSR and Communist China;
3,000-LL,500 kilowatt capacity, production rate two per month.
e. Fans (turbo-blowers) of 90,000 (sic - unit of measurement not known).
Two to three per month produced for the USSR and Communist China.
f. Turbo-generators of 760 (sic - unit of measurement unknown). Sent to the
USSR and Communist China. Production rate unknown. Three to four genera-
tor axles are produced monthly by one section of the combine, but it is
unknown whether the axles are used within this period.
g. Resita-model compressors of 15-30.or:,45 cubic centimeters capacity, for
the USSR and Communist China. Four complete compressors of the 15-30
or the 45 cubic centimeter capacity type are produced each month.
h. Propeller shafts for ships; length, nine meters; production rate, one
per day. Shafts are sent to Braila accompanied by a certificate indi-
cating the results of various tests, technical characteristics, etc.
The certificate is translated into Russian and forwarded from Braila
to the USSR.
i. Overhead cranes of 175-tons for Communist China; production rate unknown.
j. Electric motors. Type, quantities and destination unknown.
k. Rolled products of many types and sizes.
1. Ingot and cast parts, of iron and steel with and without alloys.
m. Diesel engines (or Diesel-electric locomotives); recent and unverified
activity.
n. Axles and wheels of various sizes for locomotives, railroad cars, etc.
o. Steel shapes.
p. Railroad rails.
q. General iron and steel products.,
r. Coke.
s. Coal bricks.
b. Military production within the combine is usually called Special Problems,
abbreviated "PStt, and all work orders with the marking PS receive top
priority in handling and are highly classified. A new department, FMD
(Diesel Engine Factory), began operation in March 1959. The work orders fnr
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second priority only to work orders marked PS. to
July 1959, this department had produced no Diesel engines nor Diesel-electric
locomotives. Secrecy is maintained throughout the combine concerning the
military,, products of the Special Problems departments, but it is common
knowledge that some weapons are produced. There is also limited information
available on the production of some "specialties" (the usual designation)
assigned to the Special Problems departments. A-description of one such
"specialty" follows.
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5. The Resita plant has produced, since 1957 series of twelve "toothed "
for the USSR. These rings are to be used
in the production of "remote-controlled missiles (sic)." The production
procedure was as follows: Twelve ingots of very hard, special steel, about
two meters long and weighing about four tons, arrived at the combine from an
unknown locality. They went to the Forging Section and were worked into
twelve "rings" of the following dimensions: Outside diameter - approximately
2,400mm; inside diameter - approximately 1, 800mm; thickness - approximately
200mm; width of the rim - approximately 300mm; teeth - shape uncertain
(either square or pointed). From the Forging Department, these rings were
sent to the Special Problems Department of the Ring Section for further
finishing, and then to the Special Problems Department of the "Old Machine-
building Plant" Section to have the teeth cut and for final finishing. The
steel was very hard and the teeth were difficult to cut. At the completion
of the work, a joint Soviet Rumanian military commission tested the articles.
The Soviets had the articles sent by rail to Braila, from there to Constanta
by river transport, and finally from Constanta to the USSR by sea.
6. The production of rings was begun in 1957 and continued sporadically through-
out 1958, using the special steel described above. Since the beginning of
1959, another type of ring has been produced, along with the type described
above, and production has been constant with a daily average of 30 to 35
units (ten to twelve units in each eight hour shift) of either one of the
two types.
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This second type of ring is produced by the Special Problems Department of
the Forgings and Heat Treatment Section. The rings are merely forged, and
not further processed or treated. Specifications of these rings are as
follows: Outer diameter - approximately 570mm and 1400mm; inner diameter -
approximately L 50mm and 300mm; thickness - approximately 40 and b0mm;
width of the rim - approximately 60 and 50mm. At their final destination,
each of these rings is made into three separate rings, each having an
approximate thickness of 13mm. Most of the finished rings are sent to the
Unitatea Militara 2604 (sic) of Bacau (address U. M. 2061 (sic) - Bacau) ;
however, a few units are sent to a Unitatea Militara of Sibiu and a Unitatea
Militara of Cugir..
8. The production of cylinders for brakes for gun barrels (sic - recoil mech-
anisms? Bore evacuators?) began early in 1959. Cylindrical ingots of
special steel are supplied by an unidentified plant and the cylinders are
forged from these ingots at the Resita plant. Dimensions of the forged
cylinders are shown in the following sketch:
60MM? SOMM ?
160[7MM +
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9. The forgings from the Resita plant are further processed by the Unitatea
Militara of Sibiu, which picks up the forgings in its own trucks. Orders
of 100 cylinders each were received by the Resita plant and, by late July
1959, five to six orders had been filled.
10. Forging of gun barrels of an unspecified caliber was begun in 1956, sus-
pended in 1957 and 1958, and undertaken again in 1959. Raw materials came
from the Combine itself, and the forging was done in the Special Problems
Department of the Special Steel Section. Production figures are not known,
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but the finished products were sent to an unidentified military establish-
ment of Orasul Stalin.
11. Since 1956, the Resita plant has received 40 to 50 pieces per month of
"heavy plate" for gun shields and tank armor. These plates, of various
sizes and types, are sent from the Gheorghi Dimitrov Railroad Car and
Weapons Plant of Arad to Resita for special working. The plates arrive at
Resita in the following approximate sizes: 1.50 by .60 m;. 2 by 1.20 m;
2 by 1.30 m. The plates are curved and have thicknesses of 5, 10 and 15 mm.
The plates are tempered and hardened at the Resita plant, tested for resis-
tance (traction, torsion, etc.) and tested for resistance to penetration.
The penetration test is run in the presence of Rumanian officers, who use
a "test" gun with special shells. After final tests, the plates are re-
turned to the Gheorghi Dimitrov Plant in Arad on trucks of that plant.
12. Origins of some raw materials" for ' the Resita Combine are as follows:
a. Coal from Petrosani
b. Fuel oil and gasoline from Ploesti.
c. Pipes from Roman.
d. Electric cables from the Electroputere plant of Craiova.
e. Scrap iron from various places in Rumania,
f. Brass wire from Czechoslovakia.
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billeted in an unknown number of buildings hidden in a forest about one
kilometer from the west side of the Bocsa Montana-Doman highway, and about
three kilometers northwest of the Resita railroad station. The strength of
the detachment is unknown, but some of the soldiers who work.nn the Resita
Metallurgical Combine are billeted in these barracks. Guns with barrels
about 2.5 meters long, mounted on wheels with tube tires and towed by trucks,
have been observed in the area.
an unidentified Antiaircraft Artillery detachment
There is reportedly an unidentified Antiaircraft Artillery detachment housed
in two buildings built in 1956 - 1957, located about 600 meters north of
Resita. A road six meters wide leads to the barracks from the main street
of Resita. Some soldiers who work in the Resita plant are housed in these
barracks.
15. Active defensive measures for the Resita Metallurgical Combine include
antiaircraft guns in packed earth positions. One such emplacement is
located southeast of the Combine, between the power plant and a barracks,
and two other guns are emplaced north and northwest of the Special Steel
Section of the plant. The military assigned to these positions are lodged
in barracks near the Combine.
16. Passive defense measures for the Combine include a firefighting force of
about 30, equipped with two Praha pumping engines and other material (extensi on
ladders, hoses, etc.). Two air raid shelters of unknown specifications are
located in caves.
17. The "Industrial Guard" and the Securitate De Paza have unknown duties in
the passive defense of the Combine.
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18. Technical-administrative organization and key personnel of the Resita
Metallurgical Combine are as follows: 50X1-HUM
General Manager: Mihai Patriciu
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Deputy ut to the General Manager: Eng Boris Klukin
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b.
First Assistant General Manager administration : Virak (f
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Second Assistant General er (shipping): Constantinescu (f
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Third Assistant General Manager (supply): Munteanu (fnu)
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f. Chief, Main Technological Office: Eng Borden
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g. General Production Office (issues and oversees work orders):
1) Chief of the "production order" branch: Mihailescu (fnu)
2) Chief of the "checkine execution of work orders" branch: Olariu (fnu),
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h. Work Safety Office: Office head unknown.
i. Special Problems Office (military production): Office chief is a
lieutenant-colonel who has, as assistants,, one major and five captains.
Factory Guard Office: Mitrofan (f
k. Archives:
1) Chief: Eng Calmuschi
Nicula Mircea
ment, steel, electric motors, Old Machine-building Plant): Eig
2) Chief of the group of productions sections (forging and heat treat-
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1. Political Office:
1) Chi of _ PArcnnnrml nffi ra
Chief of hiring and dismissals: Fironda (fnu
3) Chief of discipline, efficiency and behavior in the Plant: Sarbu
(fnu)
This office chooses the persons to be sent to
Party schools, universities, etc., on the basis of reports of 50X1-HUM
their work.
4) Mobilization Office: Office head unknown. This office maintains a
list of youths working in the Combine who are subject to mobilization,
and informs respective districts in time to mobilize these persons.
m. Office of Production Sections: Office head unknown.
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1) Hala Nova Section (Combine designation) corresponds to the New
Marhi np-hiii l Ai nv Plant- Chi Af t Env Bi rt
Deputy Section Chief, Hala Nova: Eng Chira
3) Chief of technical control office: Eng Popa
n. Locomotive Section:
1) Chief, Forging and Heat-treatment Section: Nicolae Apache
Chief, political office of the section: Alexandru Iacharf
Chief, technological office: Ghiorghiu Bosto
4) Chief, Specifications Office: Vasile Rata
ardent Communist.
5) Chief, accounting office: Ion Tress
6) Chief, Office of Technical Assistants: Ioan Presnescu, technician
7)
Chief, heat-treatment office: Gavrila Chiste4
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8) Chief technician, heat-treatment office: Francisc Bucorovic
9)
Chief, Shipping Office: Mrs Zoe Schorning
10) Chief, Control and Test Office: Alexandra Sirbu.
o. Electric Motor Section: Chief, Eng Popovica
p. "Old Machine-building Plant" Section: Chief, Eng Dascalache
1) Deputy Section Chief: Eng Coste
2) Chief, Shipping Office: Ardeleanu (fnu).
q. Rolli '11 Section: Chief,, Eng Erenia,
Chief: ng Liuba
r. Machinetool Section: Chief, Eng Ionescul
s. Ring Section.
t. Hearths and Steel Section.
u. FMD (Diesel engine plant) Section.
v. Model Section.
w. Coal-brick Section.
x. Steel Shapes Section.
y. Coking Plant Section.
z. Special Steels (MACIUR Special Steel) Section.
aa. CFU (Combine railroad) Section.
bb. Welding Section: Chief: Cabal (fnu).
cc. Physics Laboratory: Chief: Eng Tiberiu Balatescu
dd. Strength of Materials Testing and Chemical Analyses Laboratory.
ee. Metallographical Laboratory.
ff. Technical Control Office.
19. Extent of planned and new construction within the Resida Combine:
a. Planned: Demolition of the building now housing the "Old Machine-
building Plant" Section and the construction of a larger and more modern
structure on the same site. Production will remain the same. Start of
construction was set for the end of August or the first of September 1959.
Deputy Section
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b. Under construction: The office wing of the new building to house the
FMD Production Section was nearly completed by July 1959. The shop
for the FMD Section was completed at the end of 1958.
c. Constructed: A new shop to house the Machinetool Section was constructed
in 1958. A complex of four buildings was built in 1957 to house the
MACIUR Special Steel Mill, so named because it is in the Maciur suburb
of Resita.
d. Completed and operating: A new thermal-electric power plant, called
"7 November", was completed in late 1956 or early 1957, to supply current
to the Special Steel Section and, to a lesser degree, to the Combine
itself. A tunnel, the exact use for which is unknown, was completed in
December 1958.
20. Production plans within the Resita plant go frequently unfulfilled because
they are too high. The workers are poorly-paid, undernourished and indif-
ferent, and without incentive to earn more than their minimum base pay.
The management has cut salaries to discipline the workers, but this has
resulted in further discontent. As a result, absenteeism among the workers
has been high, and such action brings intervention by the police and the
arrest of the ringleaders.
21. The latest such event occured in April 1959, in a department of the Locomo-
tive Section. About 1,000 workers received pay cuts for not fulfilling their
norms. They went on a sit-down strike beside their machines. They resumed
working only after the management formally promised to pay the remainder of
their salaries. On that afternoon, however, the Securitatea arrested seven
or eight workers presumed to have instigated the protest demonstration, and
as of July 1959, their whereabouts remained unknown.
22. The plant at Resita for the destructive distillation of wood is located
500 - 600 meters east of the Combine, adjacent to the Barsava River. It
is an old complex with an undetermined number of buildings irregularly
placed around the area. A narrow-gauge railroad, running through the
Combine, connects the distillery with the Resita railroad station. The
plant produces etylic alcohol (sic), denatured alcohol, and other unidenti-
fied chemical products.
23.
large sketch with a detailed legend showing
the layout of the Resita Metallurgical Combine, Resita.
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(Numbers correspond with those on sketch)
1, 2, 3, b. Entrances (numbered, respectively 1, 15, 7, and 8 by the Combine.)
5. Motor vehicle entrance.
6. Freight and railroad siding entrance.
7. Offices; b-story building, approximately 65 by 20 meters:
lst floor: guardhouse of the factory guards; plant railroad office; ware-
house for new plant equipment; worker check-point with time clock for
Entrance #1.
2nd floor: Work and pay office; pay desk.
3rd floor: Special Problems (military production) Office; Combine court
(judges thefts, sabotage, fights) etc.).
4th floor: Combine union; Combine surveillance; planning office.
8. Repair shop for Combine rolling stock (CFU: Railroad Shop); structure about
80 by 50 meters - approximately 200 workers; repairs and services the plant
locomotives and damaged rolling stock used to carry material within the Combine.
9. General accounting offices; 3-story building, about 100 by 30 meters.
10. Offices; 2-story building about 30 by 15 meters; houses: Personnel (cadre)
office, mobilization office, time clock office, shipping office, weapon and
clothing warehouse of the factory guards.
11. Fire station; structure about 20 by 20 meters; 30 firemen; Praha pumping
engines, extension ladders; miscellaneous firefighting equipment.
12. Physics laboratory; 2-story structure, about 30 by 30 meters; equipped with
modern machinery to test materials, installed 2-3 years ago; head of laboratory:
Eng Tiberio Balateanu; four engineers, 25 laboratory assistants, 19 laborers.
12a. Machinetool Section; shop about 90 by 50 meters, built 1958; equipped with
all new machinetools, partly produced by the Iosef Ranger Plant of Oradea
and partly supplied by East Germany; about 50 machines. This Section is
responsible for maintaining all Combine machinery. Section Chief: Eng
Ionescu; about 1,000 civilian workers and 15 military (all lathe operators
but their duties are not known).
13. Rollingmill Section; shop about 150 by 100 meters. Section Chief: Eng
Eremia; about 40 engineers and 2,000 workers. Known products:
a. Iron rods from 8 to 200mm in diameter.
b. Rolled squares from 50 by 50mm to 150 by 450mm.
c. Rails for standard-gauge and narrow-gauge railroads.
d. Sheets from 5 to 100mm in thickness.
e. U-beams, L-beams, double T-beams of various dimensions.
14. Ring Section; shop about 80 by 50 meters; five engineers, including the
Section Chief, and about 100 workers. Produces tires for locomotives and
railroad cars, railroad car axles. There is also the Special Problems depart-
ment which produced 12 "toothed rings."
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15. Lathe department; under the "Machinetool Section"; shop about 70 by 10
meters; about 300 workers; produces rollers for the Combine rollingmills.
16. Worker check-point with time clock for Entrance #3(No 7 Entrance in Combine
designation.)
17. Worker check-point with time clock for Entrance #1 (No 8 Entrance in Combine
designation.)
18. gala Nova (New Machine-building Plant) Section; shop about 100 by 100 meters;
began operation 1953 - 1953; Section Chief: Eng Birta; up to end 1958 and the
beginning of 1959, made only locomotive parts; began producing in 1959 turbines
of 3,000 to 11,500 kw; blowers; electric generators. In 1958, Special Problems
department worked the 12 "toothed rings."
19. Telephone exchange and telephone repair shops; built 1952 - 1953 along with
the Hala Nova; structure about 50 by 50 meters.
20. Model Section; structure about 100 by 100 meters; carpenter shop for
preparing wooden models; shop for wooden model apprentices; apprentice mechanics
shop.
21. Coal-brick Section; structure about 10 by 40 meters; produces bricks of
pressed coal needed by the Combine; loading and unloading the railroad cars is
done by conveyor belts.
22. Open-air metal plate storage; area about 80 by 20 meters.
23. Locmotive-building section; structure about 80 by 50 meters; standard and
Russian-gauge locomotives; locomotives for the Hunedoara Iron and Steel Com-
bine; lumbering locomotives; has a standard and a Russian-gauge rail connection.
24. Forging and heat-treatment section; structure 70 by 50 meters; old building
with antiquated equipment; Section Chief; Eng Nicolae Agache; about 800
workers; 14 steam-operated hammers, 500-7,000 kg; 9 heating furnaces (electric
and gas-fired, gas from the coking plant). There is a Special Problems depart-
ment which produces rings, of unspecified use, of special steel; cylinders
for brakes for gun barrels, and gun barrels. This department heat-treats and
then "tests" plates for tank armor (?) and gun shields.
25. Old Machine-building Plant Section; construction about 100 by 50 meters;
produces Resita-type compressors of 15, 30, 45 cmc (sic); propeller shafts
for ships, nine meters long; 175-ton overhead cranes.
26. Electric motors section; building about 100 by 50 meters,
27. Steel shapes section; construction about 15 by 15 meters; Section Chief:
Eng Fratele; produces steel rods of 10-150mm in diameter and hexagonal bars
of various sizes.
28. General management; U-shaped, 11-story building about 50 by 10 by 50 meters;
technical and administrative management of the Combine.
89? Suspension bridge about 10 meters above the ground, one meter wide, metal
construction, connecting General Management building (29) with the General
Accounting Offices (10).
30. FMD Section (Diesel engine plant); structure about 150 by 100 meters;
construction started in the spring of 1958 and was completed in the same
year. The east wing, housing the offices, has to be still completed; March 1959,
machinery installed and plant began operation;products of this section are
unknown. To the end of July 1959, no production was seen leaving this section.
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Electric and autogenous welding section; structure 100 by 50 meters;
formerly the department making locomotive and railroad car wheels. In
June - July 1959, all machinery of the wheel department was transferred to
an unspecified plant in Braila.
32. Entrance to a tunnel driven into a hill lying south of the Combine. The
opening to the tunnel is in the center of a thick concrete wall; the door
is iron; about 2 by 2 meters and about 5 cm thick. The wall and door are
hovered with posters suggesting work safety and are not noticeable even when
passing nearby. The construction of the tunnel was begun in 1955 and completed
December 1958. There is a narrow-gauge railroad running into it, but the
features and size, etc., are unknown. It is rumored that there is another
exit; that a department for war production is installed there.
33. Entrances to old air raid shelters; doors are of metal, about one by two
meters.
314. Wall about four meters high, marking the north side of the Combine.
35. Fence about two meters high encloses the other sides.
36. Metal overpass connecting the Combine with the hearths and steel mill;
about 14 - 5 meters above the street.
37.
Hearths and steel mill section; structure about 200 by 150 meters; built long
ago; surrounded by smoke stacks; equipped with 3-4 vertical SIEMENS-MARTIN
hearths with gas burners (gas supplied by the coking plant); electrically
rotated; produces iron ingots and steel ingots (with or without alloys) and
large pieces.
38. Coking section; structure partly covered.
40. Special steels (MACIUR Special Steel Mill) section; located about two kilometers
north of the Resita railroad station. Complex with four structures of various
sizes and types; construction begun middle of 1951 and completed fall of 1957?
Section contains a Special Problems department. Mill produces special steels
in ingots and various pieces used in the Combine.
39. Gas storage tank zone (gas from the coking section).
141. Combine's hydroelectric power plant; 3-4 kilometers southeast of the Combine;
supplied by three penstocks with water from an artificial lake at Avina.
The penstocks are metal pipes, about 60 cm in diameter and about 300 meters
long. The descend sharply along the side of a hill above the power house.
No information on turbines, power potential, etc. Run-off water goes into
the Barsava River by an artificial canal (Lla).
142. 7 November thermoelectric power plant; newly built. Most of its power goes
to the Special Steels Section (140) and a lesser aanount to the Combine itself.
It is a single building of "large" dimensions, flanked by a brick stack about
140 meters high.
43. Antiaircraft unit barracks.
141. Antiaircraft unit barracks. (1.~11a. - access road to barracks).
145. (a and b) Antiaircraft gun emplacements.
146. Chemical distillery.
47. Rirehouse.
148. Securitatea headquarters.
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31.
Electric and autogenous welding section; structure 100 by 50 meters;
formerly the department making locomotive and railroad car wheels. In
June - July 1959, all machinery of the wheel department was transferred to
an unspecified plant in Braila.
32. Entrance to a tunnel driven into a hill lying south of the Combine. The
opening to the tunnel is in the center of a thick concrete wall; the door
is iron; about 2 by 2 meters and about 5 cm thick. The wall and door are
hovered with posters suggesting work safety and are not noticeable even when
passing nearby. The construction of the tunnel was begun in 1955 and completed
December 1958. There is a narrow-gauge railroad running into it, but the
features and size, etc., are unknown. It is rumored that there is another
exit; that a department for war production is installed there.
33. Entrances to old air raid shelters; doors are of metal, about one by two
meters.
314. Wall about four meters high, marking the north side of the Combine.
35. Fence about two meters high encloses the other sides.
36. Metal overpass connecting the Combine with the hearths and steel mill;
about 14 - 5 meters above the street.
37.
Hearths and steel mill section; structure about 200 by 150 meters; built long
ago; surrounded by smoke stacks; equipped with 3-4 vertical SIEMENS-MARTIN
hearths with gas burners (gas supplied by the coking plant); electrically
rotated; produces iron ingots and steel ingots (with or without alloys) and
large pieces.
38. Coking section; structure partly covered.
40. Special steels (MACIUR Special Steel Mill) section; located about two kilometers
north of the Resita railroad station. Complex with four structures of various
sizes and types; construction begun middle of 1951 and completed fall of 1957?
Section contains a Special Problems department. Mill produces special steels
in ingots and various pieces used in the Combine.
39. Gas storage tank zone (gas from the coking section).
141. Combine's hydroelectric power plant; 3-4 kilometers southeast of the Combine;
supplied by three penstocks with water from an artificial lake at Avina.
The penstocks are metal pipes, about 60 cm in diameter and about 300 meters
long. The descend sharply along the side of a hill above the power house.
No information on turbines, power potential, etc. Run-off water goes into
the Barsava River by an artificial canal (Lla).
142. 7 November thermoelectric power plant; newly built. Most of its power goes
to the Special Steels Section (140) and a lesser aanount to the Combine itself.
It is a single building of "large" dimensions, flanked by a brick stack about
140 meters high.
43. Antiaircraft unit barracks.
141. Antiaircraft unit barracks. (1.~11a. - access road to barracks).
145. (a and b) Antiaircraft gun emplacements.
146. Chemical distillery.
47. Rirehouse.
148. Securitatea headquarters.
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