CHELYABINSK, MINSK PLANTS SHIP TRUCKS, TRACTORS TO CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; LACK SPARE PARTS FOR TRACTORS, TRUCKS

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• Publication Date: April 27, 1951
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COUNTRY USSR
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Technological - Automobile and tractor
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers; monthly periodical
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PUBLISHED Dec 1950 - 2 Mar 1951
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CHELYABINSK, MINSK PLANTS SHIP TRUCKS,
TRACTORS TO cONNSTRU ZION PROJECTS;
LACK SPARE PARTS FOR TRACTORS, TRUCKS
SHIP TRACTORS TO CONSTRUCTION SITES -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 3 Feb 51
The Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant received a number of orders for S-80 tractors
for the first quarter. The orders were filled on time, the loading of machines ,
for the first quarter has already been com;leted, and tractors have been shipped
to the builders of the Kuybyshev Hydroelectric Station, the Volga-Don Canal, and
other new building projects.
Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 31 Jan 51
The Chelyabinsk Plant has shipped caterpillar tractors to the Kakhovka
construction site.
SEND TRUCKS TO KUYBYSHEV, VOLGA-DON PROJECTS -- Moscow Moskovskaya Pravda,
28 Feb 51
The Moscow Automobile Plant imeni Stalin has made 65 ZIS-150 trucks for
the Volga-Don construction project and 30 trucks for the builders of the Kuybyshev
Hydroelectric Station. It also shipped 25 vehicles above plan to the Stalin-
grad Hydroelectric Station site.
Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 18 Feb 51
The Ural Automobile Plant r ently shipped a large column of 3-ton Ural-ZIS
trucks to the Kuybyshev and Volga-Don construction sites.
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SHIPS TRUCKS TO STALINGRAD PROJECT -- Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 9 Feb 51
The Minsk Automobile Plant builds the 5-ton MAZ-205 dump truck and 7-ton
MAZ-200 truck.
The plant has adopted gas case-hardening in the heat treatment shop, hard-
ening by high-frequency currents, and precision casting.
Moscow, Krasnaya Zvezda, 14 Feb 51
The Minsk Automobile Plant has shipped dump trucks to the Stalingrad Hydro-
electric Station project.
Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 21 Feb 51
A dump truck and a 7-ton drop-sides (bortovaya) truck built by the Minsk
Automobile PJ?;nt have been sent to the Soviet Pavilion of the Leipzig Fair.
MINSK PLANT PLANS PERMANENT CONVEYER -- Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 9 Feb 51
The Minsk Tractor Plant is turning out KD-35 tractors on a temporary conveyer.
It also builds spare parts for agricultural machinery. The plr-;t's main task in
the coming year will be to organize the mass production of tractors on a permanent
main conveyer.
Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 18 Jan 51
The Minsk Tractor Plant builds the powerful. Kirovets D-35 caterpillar tractor
and the bel.orus' wheeled tractor.
POOR PLANNING, DISTRIBUTION CAUSE BEARING, PARTS SHORTAGE IN MPS -- Kishinev,
Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 24 Feb 51
Many 21TS in the Moldavian SSR report a disturbing shortage of spare parts.
There is not only a severe shortage of bearings, but also of simple parts which
could easily be produced in the republic. Balance-beam bushings, fov lack of
which tractors are standing idle in the Komratskiy, Atakskiy, Tarakliyskiy,
Vornichenakiy, an&_a number of other MTS, were formerly made at the Beltsy Re-
paIr Plant. They were made of pig iron instead of bronze, and there were no
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complaints about their quality. This year the local office of Avtotraktorosb
(Automobile and Tractor Sales Trust) decided to ask the Main Administration to
authorize the mass production of pig-iron bushings, but it did not make this re-
quest until February, when it was already time to supply these parts to the MTS.
Repair of many tractors was not completed because there were no rocker arm
shafts, balance beam covers, shafts, oil pumps, guard covers,bearing sockets,
governor pulleys, and other parts which could very well be made by republic in-
dustries. Last year, the Council of Ministers Moldavian SSR decreed three times
that orders be distributed among enterprises of the Ministries of Agriculture
and Local Industry. But the parts consumers did not make sufficient ntddes because
upon the suppliers, and enterprises failed to fill very important
the Ministry of Agriculture did not supply the necessary raw materials.
The Kishinev Repair Plant, Ministry of Agriculture, should have made, among
other spare parts, 800 rocker arm shafts,'4oO working shaft bushings, and 500
magneto drive shafts, but it made none of these parts. The planning organs of
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the Ministry of Agriculture Moldavian SSR are greatly to blame for the collapse
of spare parts production in republic plants. But Smorigo and Kravtsov, the
managers of the office of Avtotraktorosbyt, are also fully responsible for the
late delivery of spare parts to the republic. The operations department of the
republic office, headed by Kravtsov, has shown little cognizance of the activities
of all-Union plants which supply parts to the republic. Many enterprises, partic-
ularly the Saratov Serp i Molot Plant, the Voroshilovgrad Plant imeni Oktyabr'skaya
Revolyutsiya, and the Vladimir and Lipetsk tractor plants, failed to ship a great
quantity of spare parts in 1950. The republic office has the right to institute
proceedings for monetary sanctions and fines to made suppliers more answerable
for the:punctnal delivery of parts, but the soft-hearted office manager has not
once taken such action in the past 2 years.
The managers of Avtotraktorosbyt and the Ministry of Agriculture did not
establish strict controls on the proper consumption of spare parts according to
existing state norms. This lack of control led to a situation in which some MPS
received a considerably larger supply of essential parts for the year than they
were supposed to, while others did not get their share. For example, the
Grigoriopolskiy MTS received 20 cylinder heads for STZ-NATI tractors instead of
8, the Orgeyev MPS received 21 instead of 10, and the Suslenskiy MPS 1G instead
of 9. The Durleshtskiy MTS received only one cylinder head instead of the 6 due
it, and the Buzhorskiy MTS received 7 instead of 11.
The republic office did not distribute spare par.= properly by inter-rayon
divisions. The Beltsy division base had a large supply of various-make bearings
which were very scarce elsewhere. To unload his stock, Lipatov, the base direc-
tor, dumped 1,200 locking rings for STZ-NATI tractors on the Alekaandrenskiy MPS,
which had ordered only 20.
T:..e parts list ordered from republic enterprises must be expanded, to make
a decisive improvement in the supply of spare parts to MTS. New enterprises
must be induced to fill these orders. The Ministry of Agriculture Moldavian
SSR must tighten controls and requirements for the consumption of spare parts
by MPS directors. Finally, Avtotraktorosbyt's employees must be made responsible
for getting centralized stocks of spare parts to the republic at the stipulated
time and in the needed variety, rather than distributing parts mechanically.
RIGA LACKS OIL FILTERS FOR GAZ-51 TRUCI6 -- Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 10 Feb 51
.iany Riga drivers have driven GAZ-51 trucks 100,000-150,0)0 kilometers
without capital repairs. However, the rules of technical operation are grossly
violated, because certain necessary parts are not supplied to truck users. For
example, the fine oil filter should be changed every 2,000 kilometers, according
to instructions. But it is impossible to obtain such a filter in the stores
of Glaaavtotraxtorosbyt, (Main Administration of Automobile and Tractor Sales),
Glavneftesbyt, (Main Administration of Petroleum Sales), the Ministry of Trade,
Latpotrebsoyuz (Latvian Consumers' Union), or the Ministry of Motcr Transport
in Riga. Operating with a dirty filter will increase wear on the motor and
lead to premature breakdowns.
It is time that the State Planning Committee Latvian SSR looked into the
possibility of making oil filters in the republic.
MTS COMPLAIN OF WORK DONE BY MOTOR REPAIR PLANT -- Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya,
16 Feb 51
The First Bazar-Kurganskaya and other MPS complain that tractor repairs are
being he].& up because the Dzhalal-Abad Motor Repair Plant has consistently failed
to meet the plan for motor repairs. The plant serves 14 MTS. Three-fourths of
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the motors overhauled in January were completed in the last 10 days of the month,
which is typical of the last-minute shock methods of this plant. Brigades are
inefficiently organized and mechanization of heavy work is neglected. Motors are
sent out improperly adjusted and untested. and usually have to be overhauled
again at the MPS. One motor sent out by the plant bad 17 serious defects, and
a 30-horsepower STZ tractor could develop only 23-25 horsepower as a result of
soot in the vaporizer and lack of cleaning.
CITE LACK OF DRIVERS' MANUALS IN LATVIAN SSR -- Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 22 Feb 51
Riga and other cities in the Latvian SSR are entirely lacking in drivers'
manuals and visual aids to help drivers vnderstand the construction and opera-
tion of new automobiles and trucks. The Main Administration of Motor Transport
and the Administration of Printing, Publishing, and Book Trade should see that
books and visual aids on automobile mechanics are printed and put on sale.
MAKE TIRES FOR RACING CARS -- Moscow, Avtomobil', No 12, Dec 50
Th, Moscow Tire Plant has organized the production of light, durable 5.00-16
tires made of specially selected materials for racir.?d cars. Ley have a fine
tread of a special pattern which enables them to hold the woad better at high
speeds, and gave good results in tests.
Racing car tires are now being made in lots on orders from aw~omobile motor
clubs s & from r-ittees for physical culture and sport under the Council of
Ministers USSR.
SHOPS IN MOSCOW AUTO PIS BECOME STAKHANOVITE -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva,
20 Feb 51
The press and fittings shops of the Moscow Automobile Plant imeni Stalin
were recently awarded the title of Stakhanovite shops. There are now 12 Stakhan-
ovite shops and 60 Stakhanovite sections in the plant. The forge shop is now
striving for this title.
MOSCOW PLANTS INCREASE LABOR PRODUCTIVITY -. Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda,
2 Mar 51
Five conveyers have been put into operation at the Moscow Carburetor Plant,
and more than two thirds of all aggregates have been put on the high-speed program.
The plant sass produces carburetors for all makes of automobiles made in Moscow.
The personnel of the First State Bearing Plant imeni L. M. Kaganovich decided
to form at least 170 mixed brigades of setup men and to teach at least 2,000
workers Stakhanovite work methods. By using machine tools more efficiently, the
workers, foremen, and engineering-technical employees of the plant will increase
labor productivity 16 percent this year.
The Moscow Instruments Plant has been put on a daily work schedule, and the
production time for instruments has been reduced considerably. A continuous pro-
duction line from the raw materials warehouse to the finished products warehouse
has been organized. Output per worker has increased almost 11 times.
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