SHORTCOMINGS AT USSR FARM MACHINE BUILDING PLANTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 148
• Publication Date: March 31, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic; Technological - Agricultural machine INFORMATION 1953
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
DATE D[ST. 31 Mar 1954
NO. OF PAGES 3
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SHORTCOMINGS AT USSR FARM MACHINE BUILDINGS PLANTS
AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY TRUST FAILS TO FULFILL TASK -- Moscow, Moskovskaya
Pravda, 25 Sep 53
The Mosoblsel'mash (Moskovskaya Oblast Agricultural Machine Building)
Trust, Terentiyev, manager, has six agricultural machine building enterprises
under its jurisdiction. These enterprises have allotted only 29.6 percent
of their 1953 plan to agricultural machine production. Eight percent of the
1953 plan was allotted to furniture production and the rest of the plan covered
production of 5,000 cubic meters of lumber materials, 2,250 tons of iron cast-
ings, and various orders sent in by other enterprises furnishing their own
materials.
During the first eight months of 1953, Mosoblsel'mash Trust enterprises
have produced nails, parquet flooring, wheel hubs, fans, tile-making machines,
water posts, fire hydrants, turntables for narrow-gauge railroads, and other
items.
During the same period, production plans for agricultural machines have
not been fulfilled, even though 170 hay stackers, 8 seedling planters, and 3
universal mills were produced above the plan.
By 1 September 1953, only 39 percent of root and tuber washers called for
by the yearly plan had been produced.
Mosoblsel'mash Trust enterprises must take steps to stop production of
items not directly connected with agriculture.
It would be expedient to strengthen the trust's capabilities by putting
other enterprises, such as the Kashira Iron Casting and Machinery Plant, the
Novosel'skiy Pressing and Forging Machinery Plant, the Volokolamsk Iron Cast-
ing and Machinery Plant, and several others, under its control.
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow, Frunze, Tashkent
DATE
PUBLISHED 24 Sep - 2 Oct 1953
LANGUAGE Russian
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The main objective of the Mosoblsel'mash Trust then would be to organize
production of agricultural machines, and its secondary task would be to organize
production of items needed by individual kolkhoz workers to work their private
plots.
LACK OF MATERIALS CAUSES FAILURES AT PLANT -- Frunze, So?'etskaya Kirgiziya,
3 Oct 53
The Frunze Agricultural Machine Building Plant imeni Frunze has been fail-
ing to fulfill its production plans month after month. Acting Director Yusupov
and Assistant Director Usheni state that shortage of materials is the main rea-
son for the plant's failure. Yusupov and Ushenin are themselves to blame for
shortages of materials because they have been furnishing supplies to other
enterprises without considering the future needs of the Frunze Agricultural
Machine Building Plant.
For the last 3 months, July, August, and September, the chief of the shop
which produces horse-drawn rakes reported that the shop could not fulfill its
production plans because of a shortage of 3-millimeter sheet metal. On 17 April
1953, other enterprises in Frunze were permitted to take out 3 tons of 3-milli-
meter sheet metal. On 7 March, the Novotroitskiy Plant took out 3 tons of sheet
metal. Because Ushenin misjudged the plant's needs for sheet metal, the plant's
own shop cannot fulfill its plan.
On 30 July, the Krasnyy Metallist Plant borrowed 200 kilograms of nitro-
cellulose enamel from the Frunze Agricultural Machine Building Plant. The Metall
Artel borrowed some nitrocellulose enamel in May. During the first 10. days.. in
September, many shops at the Frunze AgriculeurSl Mach3'ne Building Plant were
idle because there was no nitrocellulose enamel.
Many shops could not get solvents because 8 tons of solvents from the
plant's supplies were sold to artels of the Kirgizpromsovet (Kirgiz Council
of Industrial Cooperatives).
In-March and April of 1953, the Krasnyy Pimokat Artel took oul 2u tons
of paint'. In August and September of the same year, all the plant's available
space. was taken up by agricultural machines which could not be shipped because.
there.was no paint for them. Many of these machines were out in the open,
rusting.
Adequate records of supplies delivered to the plant are not kept. Supplies
are strewn over a huge area near the railroad tracks. Many parts needed.by
the plant cannot be found because they are buried under other supplies'..
A high reject rate contributes to the plant's failure to meet its pro-
duction plans. A shop at the plant 's`pent 2g months of intensive. work produc-
ing parts for a well digger. The Ministry of Agriculture and Procurement
USSR refused to accept these parts because they were not made according to
specifications. Two and a half months of work and 2,500 kilograms of'metal
were wasted.
The plant's management, the party committee, and the trade union must
take steps to improve conditions at the Frunze Agricultural Machine Building
Plant imeni Frunze.
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FAIL TO'?PRODUCE PARTS FOR COTTON MACHINES -- Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 24 Sep 53
The Tashkent Tashsel'mash Agricultural Machine Building Plant imeni K. Ye.
Voroshilov has a products list of more than 150 spare parts for cotton pickers
and cotton extractors.
The plant has failed to supply cotton growers of the Uzbek SSR with two
types of spare units fc- the SKhM-48 cotton pickers, four types of spare units
for the KhChO-43 cotton extractor, and dozens of types of spare parts for the
UPKh-1.5 cotton cleaner.
For several years, the plant has not been producing KhChG-11 reducing
gears for the KhChO-43 cotton extractor.
The plant's toolmaking shops produce poor-quality tools, and produce them
in insufficient number. Plant Production Chief Ternovskiy states that shortage
of experienced toolmakers is responsible. for the poor quality and insufficient
number of tools produced by the plant's toolmaking shops.
Year after year, a shortage of broaches for No 674 bushings has been
causing production bottlenecks. Chief Technologist Furman makes no effort
to correct the situation.
State special design bureaus supply Tashkent plants with unfinished draw-
ings.
The TashkentAvtotraktorodetal' Plant of the Ministry of Agriculture and
Procurement USSR was supplied with drawings for agricultural machineparte;,by
the State Special Design. Bureau for Cotton Growing. After the'plant'had started
roduction,of the spare'parts, it was discovered 'that the drawings were incom-
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The-State Special Design Bureau supplied the plant with drawings for a
hub cap. After the plant had made tools and had set up the equipment to pro-
duce the hub caps, it was discovered that these drawings also were incomplete.
New tools had to be made and new equipment set up after the drawings had ben
corrected.
The plant was supplied with a drawing, without any specifications, for
the SKhM-1058 drive pulley. Neither the State Special Design Bureau nor the
Tashsel!mash Plant, which formerly produced SKhM-1058 drive pulleys, were able
to furnish the necessary specifications.
The Tashkent Uzbeksel'mash Plant had to produce 700 ODN-138 bearing hous-
ings. In planning production of the ODN-138 bearing housing, the plant failed
to arrange production of the ODN-212 part needed for the bearing housing and,
therefore, cannot produce ODN-138 bearing housings.
NEW COTTON-PICKING MACHINE -- Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 9 Oct 53
The Tashsel'mash Plant will produce the SKIS-1.4 two-row horizontal spindle
cotton-picking machine. It is expected that a number of SKhS-1.4 cotton-picking
machines will be ready for the 1954 cotton-picking season.
The plant plans to equip existing SKhM-48M cotton-picking machines with
spindles polished by an electrical process. The electrically polished spindles
will considerably improve the SKhM-48M's productivity.
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