SHORTCOMINGS, SUCCESSES AT USSR TRACTOR PLANTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700130436-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2011
• Sequence Number: 436
• Publication Date: September 22, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Economic; Technological. - Tractor industry
Daily newspapers
USSR
16 may - 9 Jun 1953
REPORT
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STALINGRAD TRACTOR PLANT LAGS IN PLAN rulFILLI4ENT -- Moscow, Pravda, 28 May 53
For a long time, the Stalingrad Tractor Plant been fulfilling its
plan. The enterprise has not met its obligations foi rF-c-og production costs
and increasing labor productivity.
The plant's subassembly shops ere to blame for the leg in production. The
foundries do not deliver enough cn'-tins to the machine shops, and, as a result.
there are not enough parts rn hand to n,sure uninterrupted output of tractors.
In the steel foundry, trr_cko irn rnvct by hand ten times during the pro-
duction process. The labor-consuming o' grinding the tracks on an emery
wheel is also done by hand. Tht.:^ y specit'S_c measures for rebuilding equipment
and mechanizing operations in th. steel foundry were enacted at the end of
1952. In January 1553, Sinitsin. ,Erector of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant,
issued an order listing completion dates for individual measures and naming the
pernnnel respon iblc for carrying out each measure. This order had little ef-
fect; only two sec^ndury measures hewn been carried out in the steel foundry.
Pl pning of an nutoeatic for grinding tracks and an overhead conveyer for trans-
port.tnr them is progressing very slowly.
Imrortant irenc'iros fr ra'cing the technological level in the iron foundry
and in the heat treating, pressing, and other shops are not being carried out.
Tn laj2, Sinitsinand his three deputies '-sued 1,"OO orders and regulations,
but :h' plant has no effective system for following up these orders and making
sine that they ere carried out.
Several Stalingrad enterprises are not meeting their obligations for
vhip:,ing metal and scrap metal to the tractor plant. The Stalingrad Tractor
Plant. needs more help from Glavtraktoroprom (Main Administration of the Tractor
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Industry), Ministry of Machine Building USSR. Parfenov, chief of GlavtrAktn-
roprom, ordered the plant to carry out a number of technical and organizational
measures. After a lapse of 5 months, the plant has received barely a third of
the funds needed to carry out these measures.
COMPLAINTS ABOUT DEFECTIVE OUTPUT -- Minsk. Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 16 May 53
In 1952, the Minsk Tractor Plant received 272 complaints; the Minsk
Motorcycle and Bicycle Plant, 1,874 complaints; and the Minsk Automobile
Plant, 242 complaints. At the Minsk Automobile Plant, more tan 1,000 workers
and 100 brigades took part in a drive to improve quality.
The reject rate at the Bobruysk Plant imeni Stalin rose sharply in the
first quarter 1953.
More than 4,000 parts and units were rejected in the tractor assembly
shop of tPe Minsk Tractor Plant in 1952.
AU.O1,14TIC LINES AT TRi.:.JR PLANT -- Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 28 May 53
There are two automatic lines in the diesel shop of the Minsk Tractor
Plant, one for machining cylinder blocks and the other for machining cylinder
heads. On the cylinder head line, 300 tools are in operation; they machine
145 cylinder headf simultaneously. Three set-up men and one operator run the
automatic transfer line for machining cylinder heads.
COMPLETES 5-MONTH PLAN -- Moscow. Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 31 May 53
The Kharkov Tractor Plant imeni Ordzhonikidze has completed its plan
for the first 5 months of 1953. Gross output increased 14.7 percent rnd cc??-
modity output increased 17.6 percent over the corresponding period of 1952.
INNOVATORS SAVE PLANT MONEY -- Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 9 Jun 53
There are more than 4.000 innovators and inventors at the Chelyabinsk
Tractor Plant. Their suggestions have Barred the plant 170 million rubles in
the postwar period.