LOWA-WERDAU FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500790051-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 51
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Me.terial shortages appear to have been overcome for the present at Lowa-Werdau.
Eight trucks cf t .e types 05 (cross-country) and 4H3A, left the works in. the last
half of Oct 53. The entire truck production depends,on the delivery of etigines.
Horch Zwickaa has promieed the delivery of 50 H3 engines by the end of flovember..
2. Thee electric omz1_,ases have been delivered to the Soviet Union. The motor3 come
from the Elektr--motorenwerk Wernigerode, in the Harz.
. The, fia.nclal difficulties of the plant remain as before. There is no more credit.
A way out will be sought through increased productivity.
4. At the end. of October Lcwa-Werdau switched to building clued bodies for trucks,
for the Soviet troops.. Pressed wood sheets are used in the production. They are
intended for Red Army units in the Zwickau ar a U to the end of October,
h~d been e ti ed frith closed bodies.
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Germany (Soviet Zone)
Lowa-Werdau Financial Difficulties
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