BOOST USSR TRACTOR OUTPUT; PRODUCE GAS GENERATOR ENGINES, DEFECTIVE DIESELS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700150438-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2011
• Sequence Number: 438
• Publication Date: December 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
BOOST USSR TRACTOR OUTPUT;
PRODUCE GAS GENERATOR ENGIttES DEFECTIVE DIESELS
START PRODUCTION OF AfIARUS' TRACTOR -- Moscow, Pravda, 15 Oct 53
Series production of the Beluras' Tractor by the Minsk Tractor Plant
started at 1716 hours on 14 October 1953, when the first of the new tractors
rolled off the main conveyer of tractor assembly shop Nc ?. A meeting was
held at the plant to celebrate the start of series production of the Aelar?us'
tractor.
7afPPOVE KhTZ-7 TRACTOR -- h;oscow, Izvestiya, l.3 Aug 53
The Kharkov Tractor Assembly Plant is increasing the output of the 12-
1:orsepower XhTZ-j harden and orr.ha:d tractor, which has five speeds ranving
from 0.7 to 1~ kilometers per hcur? In 1y53, the plant has simplified and
strengthened the front axle. doubled the wesr resistance of the crankshaft and
r_onnecting rods, endtcnlly changed the design of the ste=ring mechanism, and
improved the water pump design. These improvements have increased the ~iaran-
tee period Lperiod before capital repairs are needed] ~f the tractor from 1.500
hours to 2,000 hours. The lnrarnntee period of the undercarriage has been in-
creased from 2,000 hours to 2,500 hours. In some MTS, KhTZ-7 tractors have op-
erated 7,000 to Q,000 hours withc~rt rupital repairs.
In 1952, the plant accumulated 10 million rubles above the Dian by reduc-
ing the production cost of the KhTZ 7 trnctos and produced 600 tractors c:bove the
plan. In the first 6 months of 1?5~, the plant has produced i00 tractors abc::
the plan. Plant director I. [dedvedev, chief engineer S. Serikov, and chief de-
signer K. Kntsevich were awarded Stalin Prizes for their pert in developinE the
KhTZ-7 tractor.
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CLASSIFICATION COi'1FIDEi4TIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
DATE OF
INFORMATION 15'53
SUBJECT Economic, Techrolo
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ractor industry,
diesels
PUBLISHED Daily newspccer :nort:ily periodicals DATE DIST. /7 Dec 1y53
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow, Petroze:vo3sk, Rcme
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PRODUCES ABOVE-PLAN TRACTORS; WASTES METAL __ Moscow, Trud, 23 pug 53
T~aY, the Kharkov Tractor Flant shipped a large group of above-plan
garden-and-orchard tractor; for agricultural purposes. The plant fulfilled
.its plan for the ri.rst 8 months of 1973 ahead of schedule and produced hundreds
of tractor: above plan, showed 64 percent more profit than it did in 1952, snd
saved more than 1,2 million rub'_es above the glen.
Moscow, Trud, 1 Aug 5j
Zn i952, the K'rar'kov Tra-*-or Plant used y8 kilograms mere petal to make
each DT-54 tractor titan the Stalingrad Tractor Plant.
POSTWAR TRACTOR GUTPUT IIZ L'SSR -- Rome, Notizie Sovietiche, 15 Jun 53
Eetween 1946 and iy5e, the USSR produced 804,000 (1n terns of 15-horsepower
units) new agricult::ral traitors.
Gb-58 GAS ~_E1`ERATOR TRA~TOR -- Mnsccw, Komsomo'_'sY.aya Pravda, 16 Aug 53
ThL-' GB-j? gas