PRECISION INSTRUMENT PLANTS IN DOLNY SLASK

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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2011
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: January 16, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Economic - Production equipment
1945
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PRECISIOR IIISTR[A~RT PLANPS IN LOLNY SLASK
Panstwowa W:_hE nia Opt czna
Penstwowa Wytvornia Optyczna (State Optical Glassworks) located at 12 De-
waJtie Street, Jelenia Gora is the former Hirschoerger bptische Werke, which
made'optical parts for sights and prisms for tanks during World War II.
The factory was in good condition. When the Polish state took it over
1 September 1945. Only s small part of the equipment had been evacuated and
the laboratory, workshop, and office equipment were almost intact. The plant
consisted of a glass foundry, to produce special qualities of optical and in-
dustrial glass, and a glass grinding division. The plant had its own railroad
siding, for loading freight care, which was under a roof and covered an area of
42,000 square meters. Its production of optical
laboratories, and fire prevention, antiaircraft, andstranspoc-atjon equi mentice
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save the plant a leading place in Dolny Slask indust q pone
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nine in the world engaged in this type The factory was one of
ype of production.
After the, war, the machinery had to be repaired, but the warehouses con-
tained most of the essential raw materials. Production was converted to peace
time. Furnaces for smelting high-grade laboratory and industrial glass were
activated and preparations were made for the production of optical glass.
During the war, the plant employed 500 persons in two shifts. It now em-
ploys 300 in one shift and is constantly being expanded. Fewer than 20 Germane
are now employed at the plant. Great efforts are being made to axpand the
cision machining division, but there is a shortage
p.e
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Year Plan calls forof skilled workers. The Three-
expansion of production to a value of 20 million zlotys monthly.
Wrotlawska Fabrvka Wan
Wroclavska Fabryka Wag (Wroclaw Scale Factory), located at 36 Fiowy Sviat
Street in Wroclaw, is the former C. Hermann plant, one of the
factories; founded in 1839. oldest German scale
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The 1ant was burned down campletely in 1945, except for one workshop for
platform scales at 1 W. Kadlubka Street in K
arlowice. In the beginning this
was used by Famofor the repair of tractors.
In April 1946, the fact -~-- - Y1O nerAu raorscation Industry) in Bydgoszcz.
Industry, precis cry was transferred to the Association of the Machine-Tool
Ion and Optical Rn,w...- a
in Wroclaw and Golnitz in Szprotawa, and---the scale repair sLab
hopatc37 eneraliH.
Dabrowaki Street was taken over. op 37 General H.
n l917,
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ncluding 60 in direct production, and
one (le
ecialiet Production in
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various sizes of Polish-model platform ac7lesvas 200 ,, beam scales
scales, and aut obitle plat-
form scales. A new division is to be activated for counter scales and parts.
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