ANNOUNCES MASS-PRODUCTION OF LATHES AND TRUCKS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600370686-0
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2011
• Sequence Number: 686
• Publication Date: January 31, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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MASS-PRODUCE TURNING LATHES -- Berlin, Taegliche Rundschau, 3 Jan 51
The people-owned Pittler Machine-Tool Factory in Leipzig has completed con-
version work.. and is about to start mass-production of turning lathes. It is the
first factory in East Germany to start mass-producing the lathes.
START MASS-PRODUCTION OF 3/4-TON TRUCK -- Berlin, Die Wirtschaft, 1 Dec 50
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a 3/4-ton truck with rear-wheel drive based on the old Framo three-wheeled vehicle.
The new 3/4-ton track is now being mass-produced.
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balanced springs. The truck is 405 centimeters long, 154 centimeters wide, 171.5
centimeters high, and weighs 800 kilograms. The maximum permissible load is 1,650
kilograms and its maximum speed 60 kilometers per hour.
TO MASS-PitODUGE AIESEL TRUCKS -- Berlin, Der Verkehr, Sep 50
The g~_typA, g-ton, diesel truck, built by the people-owned IYa Horc}~ Plante
has completed extensive trial runs and will go into mass-producticn now: The trial
run covered 10,000 kilometers of difficult terrain. ?
One of the trucks, with a load of 3 tons, completed the run i,n :16 days, ;.chile
another, with a drwithrrsnnER4adiesel-engines whigh willdbetused201ndthe?futura in
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Economic -Machinery, trucks, tractors
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INFORMATION 1950 - 1951
DATE DIST. 31 Jan 1951
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TO UP TRACTOR OUTPUT -- Berlin, Der Verkehr, Oct 50
In 1951, tractor production at the people-owned Erandenburg Tractor Plant
will be 50 percent above 1950 production, Production of stationary motors for
compressors and diesel locomotives Trill also begin.
DEVELOP NEW MOTOR SCOOTER -- Berlin, Der Verkehr, Sep 50
August Falz, a motor specialist from Doebe7n, Sachsen, has, developed a new
motor scooter, called the "Falzo." The scooter has a maximum speed of 40 kilo-~
meters per hour and consumes about 2 liters of gasoline per 100 kilometers.
It is driven by a Fichtel-Sachs Motor, and the front wheel shock is absorbed
by a simple telescopic bar especially constructed for this purpose. The ges tank
is located above the rear wheel. To mass-produce this scooter, it is planned to
use an electro-steel frame, which can be easily cast.
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