PRODUCTION OF MOTOR TRUCKS UNDER THE GDR'S 1951 ECONOMIC PLAN

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040026-7
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2011
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: January 16, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION FROM
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COUNTRY German Democratic Republic
SUBJECT Economic - Heavy industry; motor vehicles
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PUBLISHED Monthly periodical
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P, JBLISHED Berlin
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DATE
PUBLISHED Jan 1951
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
PRODUCTION OF MOTOR TRUCKS UNDER THE GDR'S
1951 ECONOMIC PLAN
The Five-Year Plan initiated on 1 January 1951 calls for a 1,000-percent
increase in motor truck production as compared with 1950. The editors of Der
Verkehr interviewed Kurt Lang, managing director of VVB IFA (Federation of
People-Ownme Motor Vehicle Plants), and Karl Seidel, its technical director,
to learn what preparations had been made by VVB IFA to guarantee this nlanued
increase. They were informed that a standardization program for 1951 = 1955,
including retooling, was in full swing. This year's models are ready for series
production, and manufacture of motor trucks during the year will be increased
250 perrint,as compared with the previous year. Development of the 1952 models
will also be started in 1951.
A central experimental plant is to be built to promote development and
testing of all vehicles and to centralize all work relating to design and experi-
mentation. Work on this plant was started last year.
Training La receiving particu]ai attention. Since the beginning of 1950;
the number of apprentices has risen from app---)ximately 2,400 to almost 4,000.
The number of apprentices at the new training institute in Zschopau is to be
increased to 400.
Exempting the truck plants from other manufacturing obligations is an im-
portant step in the realization of the Five-Year Plan prcduction program. For
instance, the FRAMO Plant is completely relieved of the production of horre-
drawn vehicles, and 40-horsepower tractor production is being transferred from
the Horch Plant to another plant., Repair activities will be considerably cur-
tailed, and eventually all repair work will be transferred to KWU (communal
economic enterprises). Investments made by the VVB IFA under the Two-Year
Plan were an important step toward increasing capacity, and this capacity will
now show its effects under the Five-Year Plan.
oft tang said that an .xperimental one-ton model of the well-known 3/4-ton
FRAMO t.'uck wiL' be serially produced in 1951. The new truck, which'-is already
in the blueprint stage, features a considerable increase in per-horsepoulr engine
performance and an improved chassis. The 1.5-ton Phaenomen will be, equipped
with an air-cooled diesel engine, and its lcad city gill be increased to 2
tons. Necessary tests and experiments have u.L-uy ueen carried out under the
Two-Year Plan so that production may be started.
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Experience gained with the Borah H3,
the war, the first truck manufactured after
helped speed develo
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he 3-ton Horch H3A. Experience gained
with
vehicles furnished by the Soviet mots- truck industry was also utilized.
Beeid's the standard chassis of the H3A type, a by chassis will be developed
for basses, tank trucks, cranes
and other s
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,
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