1. PRODUCTION AT MECHANIK ASKANIA VEB 2. MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, OPTIK CARL ZEISS JENA VEB

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• Publication Date: July 14, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Germany (Russian Zone)
1. Production at Mechanik Askania VEB
2. Miscellaneous information, Optik Carl Zeiss
Jena VEB
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Mechanik Askania VEB, Teltow ?
1. At a meeting held on 22 February 1952, it was reported that
planned production for January had been 92 percent. fulfilled.
With respect to the target for February, difficulties were
being experienced in the production of balancing machines.,
oscillating tables, and compasses.
2. However, sine the thepartment had guaranteed future deliveries
of castings in addition to better work, an improvement in material
difficulties was foreseen.
3. For 1-22 February, production figures were as follows
Compasses (lacking the necessary spring rings)
Oscillating tables(7-8,produced; 5 produced. of Type 80?H)
Balancing machines AM 50'(1 produced).
Balancing machines AM 500?(4. produced)
. Water meters -0.00Y '
Mechanical .log (still. l?kin t.choieters)'

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At.a meeting' held on 29 Fpbruary,..Turther p&bdUct4on.diff5culties
were revealed.-Io scale*fcir the final iissemb;y.pf electrical
logs were-tofbe-found',. There were no tachtimeters-for mechanical
logs nor suction heads (Saugkoepfe) for compass windows
(Kompassluken). Only one oscillating table was in final, form
because of the delayed arrival of spring steel strips, A production
estimate of four balancing machines (AM 500), basoi on a continuing lack
CLASS IFI ONparts,was made for March.
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Optik Carl Zeiss Jena VEB
5. At a meeting on 11 February production of wire-drawing diamond dies
was discusSed. It as reported that the first order was for
15,000 arid, that delivery of rough stones would start at once.
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6. a visit was to be made on 15 February
by a Chinese trade delegation and had resulted in considerable
planning. Arrangements made for the delegates included a conducted
tour of the works, a special show in the planetarium, and the
provision of two Russian interpreters. Plans wPrA
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several Chinese flags and the table with flags, messages of welcome,
and a picture,of MAO Tse-tung,
7. An outbreak of typhoid (typhus),, , in the apprentice wing
was referred to and it was revealed that there were, at that
time ,fifteendiagnosed cases and thirteen persons under
observation. Because of the epidemic, the apprentice wing would
not be included in the Chinese delegation tour.
8. At a meeting on 25 February, attention was drawn to the Czech
invention of a small microscope which performs the due] function
of a microscope and telescope. Apropos of this, it was remarked 2
that the Zeiss Jena works had something similar in their "Tellupne
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