POOR SUPPLY, TECHNIQUES SLOW SOME AUTO PLANTS; OTHERS IMPROVE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 100
• Publication Date: August 28, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic; Technological - Automobile industry
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 24 Apr - 12 May 1950
LANGUAGE Russian
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
POOR SUPPLY TECHNIQUES
LO O 1 A T ;
OTHERS IMPROVE
PLANT SLOW TO APPLY AUTOMATIC DEVICES -- Izvestiya, No 111, 11 May 50
There are many automatic devices in operation at the Gor'kiy Automobile
Plant imeni Molotov. One automatic assembles a spring in one minute, replac-
ing the work of four men. Another machine nails the wooden platform on a
truck in 4 minutes. An automatic-transfer machine-tool line has been built
for machining wrist pins. It consists of six machines, and can be operated
by one man.
Numerous other automatic devices have been developed in the past few
years; unfortunately, very few are being used in production. For example,
automatics for polishing parts were ordered in the midd:^ of last year. The
deadline has long since passed, but there is no indication that these ma-
chines will be produced in the near future. The automatic for assembling
spriags took over 2 years to build. All this is well known to the plant
management, but it remains indifferent to the importance of automatics in
production.
There is a special office for automatic processes in the plant, but
there are not enough engineers and designers on its staff, and it cannot
properly test and perfect machines to ready them for use i., production.
The entire area of its testing shop does not exceed 30 square meters, so
that two oit three. machines at a time.must..wait their turns to be-.tested.
Automatic systems which were applied to a great many of'the machine
tools have either lost their usefulness, or have simply been removed. There
are dozens of cylindrical grinding machines in the motor shop which were
equipped with attachments for automatic grinding of journals for crank..
shafts. These attachments cannot now be found in?the shop. In he same
shop, special feeding devices fora number of the machine tools have bean
broken.
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In the foundry, molding-sand proportions are measured by eye, although
a proportioning device could be set up. The absence of an automatic air
feed for the cupolas results in waste of fuel and electric erergy.
The plant management and the Ministry of Automobile and Tractor Industry
must give the problems of automatic systems serious attention.
UNCERTAIN SUPPLY HOLDS UP PRODUCTION -- Moskovskaya Pravda, No 69
11 May 50 ,
In 1949 the VARZ Plant of the Administration of Automobile Repair Plants
of the Moscow City Soviet fulfilled the year plan by September. Since that
month, however, production of tractors has fallen off sharply.
The failure of neighboring plants to supply parts assemblies in a steady
stream is the cause of the production slow-down. Most of the workers in the
tractor shop are now making other items, and some workers have been let off.
In some months of this year. the output of tractors was scarcely one-fourth
the planned amount.
Among the plants which are holding up production in the tractor shop
are the Podol'sk plants imeni Ordzhonikidze and imeni Kalinin.
LAG IN RAIL SERVICE DELAYS SHIPMENTS -- Pravda, No 114, 24 Apr 50
Unshipped machines and spare parts have been accumulating for weeks at
the Ural'sk Automobile Plant because the daily quota of railroad cars has not
been arriving. Many of the automobiles, for which there is no longer any room
in stock, have to be kept out on the streets, where the rubber and electrical
equipment is dame,ed by the elements.
The Plant has appealed several times to Yamovich, director of the South
Ural Railroad System and to Beshchev, Minister of Transportation, for new cars.
So far, only promises have been obtained. As of 18 April, one million rubles'
worth of machines and spare parts were awaiting shipment at the plant.
When will the South Ural Railroad System and the Minister of Transporta-
tion do something about shipping out the long-accumulated products? --
T. Frokhodtsev, director of sales section, Ural'sk Automobile Plant
CARBURETOR PLANT CUTS REJECTS -- Moskovskaya Pravda, No 60, 29 Apr 50
Rejects at the Moscow Carburetor Plant (director, V. Polyakov) have
been cut nearly 50 percent, so that they are now at a minimum. The measure-
ments, metallographic, and chemical laboratories have played an important
part in this effort, enabling workers to check the quality of all types of
beat treatment and machining. Installation of conveyers and transfer lines
serving machine tools account for a 25-percent reduction of rejects.
Working conditions have been improved. Nearly all floors are covered
with clay tile, and most of the ordinary elec+ric bulbs have been replaced
with daylight bulbs.
The 4-month program was fulfilled on 21 April, but there are still some
bottlenecks in the plant, the elimination of which should increase produc-
tivity 20-25 percent',. without necessitating employment of additional labor.
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A new cleaning machine, built at the Tokmak Automobile Repair Plant, has
improved considerably the cleaning of automobile parts. A complex device for
machining differential gears is now being made, which should raise labor pro-
ductivity in this operation four. to five times.
The Moscow Steel Institute imeni Stalin has conducted research in conjunc-
tion with workers of the Automobile Plant imeni Stalin on the reconditioning
of molding sand. Now, after processing, 80 percent of the sand can be used a
second time for molding.
In the automobile and tractor industry, the Red Banner of the Council of
Ministers and first pri.zes were awarded for the first quarter of 1950 to the
Moscow and Gor'kiy Automobile Plants, Kuybyshev Bearing Plant, and Altay Trac-
tor Plant.
SELLS 500 CARS FIRST YEAR -- Kazakhstanskaya Prav'?.a, No 91, 1 May 50
About a year ago, the Avtomotovelosbyt (Automobile, Mot:.rcycle, and
Bicycle,Sales) Truss opened its store in Alma-Ata. The sales of Pobedas
and Moskviches'now total 500 cars while those of motorcycles and bicycles
run into hundreds. Vehicles are bought by farmers, scientists, workers,
artists, and war veterans.
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