USSR EXPANDS MOTOR VEHICLE OUTPUT: PROBLEMS AT COR'KIY, MOSCOW PLANTS

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CIA-RDP80-00809A000700180076-7
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May 3, 1954
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700180076-7 CLASS FICATION CONFIDENTIAL CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO. OUNTRY USSR UBJECT Economic; Tedhnological - Motor vehicle Ow industry J INFORMATION 1953 JUBLISHED Weekly periodical; daily newspapers DATE DIST. 3 M Ay 1954 DATE PUBLISHED 5 Oct-20 Dec 1953 LANGUAGE Russian NO. OF PAGES 4 THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION USSR EXPANDS MOTOR VEHICLE OUTPUT; PROBLE-6 AT COR'KIY, MOSCOW PLANTS INDUSTRY TO IMPROVE ?ASSENGER CARS, BUSES -- Moscow, Ogonel., 20 Dec 53 During the Fifth Five-Year Plan, the output of passenger cars should in- crease by 49 percent. The 1955 production of large-capacity trucks will be one third more than the 1950 figure, and the 1955 production of trucks and dump rucks with more than 10 ton capacities will be several times the 1950 figure. The Moskvich automobile will be modernized. It will be equipped with a 37-horsepower engine which will consume 220 grams of gasoline per horsepower [hour?] instead of the present 300 grams. The body will be enlarged and stream- lined and the car will, be equipped with a beater. The output of gas-generator motor vehicles will be increased by 80 percent during the Fifth Five-Year Plan. The Moscow Motor Vehicle Plant imeni Stalin produces the ZIS-155 bus and the Pavlovo Bus Plant produces a 19 -,assenger bus. Both of these buses have many defects which must be corrected to assure passen- ger comfort. The plants have taken too much time to design a new bus for inter- city transport. The fully automatic U1'yanovsk Motor Vehicle Piston Plant is already in operation and another automatic piston ring plant will soon e put into oper- ation. -- G. S. Ifilamov, Deputy Minister of Machine Building USSR GOR'KIY PLANT ASKS BETTER SUPPLY OF MATERIALS, PARTS -- Moscow, Pravda, 14 Oct 53 More than 500 plants and factories take part in the manufacture of a Soviet motor vehicle. 11 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700180076-7 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700180076-7 The Gor'kiy Motor Vehicle Plant imeni Molotov receives close cooperation from some of the plants that supply it with mate i l ' r a a. The laporozh ye Zapo- rozhstal' Plant developed an extra-strength sheet steel for the Gor'kiy plant. The Chusovoy Metallurgical Plant organized the output of a new shape of metal stock for making GAZ-51 wheel rims. Use of this special shape made it possible to save 16 kilograms of metal on every GAZ-51 truck. The Serov Metallurgical Plant developed a new high-strength steel for the motor vehicle plant. The Gor'kiy Motor Vehicle Plant formerly received, fror 'odol'sk, cotton wadding for upholsteri,- -i.':omobiles. Now the plant has this material made in Gor'kiy and saves hundre.,, of thousands of rubles in transportation costs. The Gor'kiy plant has already started production of the GAZ-69 vehicle. Funds for rubber products for the GAZ-69 were requested a long time ago. Failure to allot these funds in time is having an adverse effect on the out- put of the vehicle. The plant is carrying on work to increase the pay load of the GAZ-51 truck am, to improve the performance of the Pobeda automobile. Glavmetallosbyt (Main Administration for the Sale of Metals), Ministry of Metallurgical Industry USSR, was supposed to provide the Gorlkiy plant with a permanent source of metal supply in 1953, but failed to carry out this assign- ment. In the course of the year, the plant supplying the same shape and crede of metal pas frequently chan.ted. In the first quarter 1953, the Gor'kiy Motor Vehicle Plant received metal for Pobeda rear axle Sears from the Zaporozh'ye Dneprospetsstal' Plant. In the second quarter 1953, this order was transferred to the Zlatoust Plant. Obviously unprepared for the task, the Ziatoust Plant held up deliveries of this steei. The Gor'kiy plant has been receiving tubing for the steering assembly from the Pervoural,sk New Tube slant. In the third quarter 1953, Glavmetallosbyt transferred this order to crie Pervcural'sk Old Tube Plant. The old plant was not prepared for the order and he not fulfilled the order for several months. Tne Novos'.birsk Metallurgical Plant, the Stalingrad Krasnyy Oktyabr' Plant, and other plants often arbitrarily postpone delivery da'Gee. In August and September 1953, he Yaroslavl, Pobeda Rabochikh Plant, Minis- try of Chemical Industry USSR, failed to supply the Gor'kiy plant with nitro- enamels needed for painting passenger cars end trucks. The Yar.slavl' plant only half filled its September order for enamel. After several years of ex- perimenting, t'~e plant has not yet menaced to produce cherry-colored and dark- blue enamels fcr pa..iting ZIMs and Fobedas. The Moscow Lacquer and Paint Plant produces improved enamels which the Gor'kiy Motor Vehicle Plant uses for painting bicycles, beds, and other prod- ucts. But the Moscow plant is not prepared to meet the Gor'kiy plant's needs for this type of enamel and, in the third quarter 1953, only half filled the Gor'kiy plant's order. For many years, there has been ,.o change in the color or design of uphol- stering fabrics for Pobeda automobiles. The plant asked the Shelkovskly Factory imeni Sverdlov and Glavsherst' (Main Administration of Wool Industry) to produce new fabrics for upholstering ZIM automobiles by 1 August, but this dead- line was not met. The Pavlovo-Posadskiy Vatelin Plant, Ministry of Consumer Goods Industry USSR~has not been providing a regular supply of vatelin [a coarse cotton fabric coated with glue] for use in upholstering seats and back cushions of passenger cars, and Rosglavkhlopkoprom (Main Administration of the Cotton Industry RSFSR) has not been helping the plant fulfill its task. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700180076-7 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700180076-7 The Gor'kiy Motor Vehicle Plant receive, such materials as paper, rubber products, and glass in small consignments from a number of plants and factories scattered allover the country. There is no reason why the plant should not obtain these materials locally, since both glass and paper are produced in Gor'kovskaya Oblast. In the first quarter 1953, the plant was supposed to receive 588 designa- tions of parts from Ministry of Chemical Industry plants in Yaroslavl', Sverd- lovsk, Leningrad, and Moscow, but received only 296 designations of War's. As a result, plant conveyers were held up. The Yaroslavl' Industrial Rubber Products Plant ships unfinished bicycle pedals and the Leningrad Industrial Rubber Products Plant ships unfinished motor vehicle gaskets to the Gor'kiy plant. Glavkhimsbyt (Main Administratior for the Sale of Chemical Products) should measure shipments to the Gor'kiy plant not by the ton but by the number of items in o"der to increase the sense of responsibility of supplying plants. In the past year, the plant spent almost 3 million rubles above the plan for transportation coats because it had to send small parts by air freight or as baggage on passenger trains. These delays are sometimes caused by the Gor'kiy plant's failure to notify suppliers about changes in design or to supply rubber plants with molds for parts. -- P. Lisnyak, director, Gor'kiy Motor Vehicle Plant imeni Molotov Moscow, Pravda, 5 O:t 53 In September 1953, the Gor'kiy Motor Vehicle Plant imeni Molotov shipped large consignments of motor vehicles to Krasnoyarsk, Simferopol', Krasnodar, and other agricultural areas. Plant workers have pledged to produce 20 million ru:?les' worth of above- plan consumer goods in October. M'^cow, Pravda, 5 Nov 53 The Gor'kiy Motor Vehicle Plant imer_i Molotov has completed its plan for the first 9 months of 1953 ahead of schedule and turned out the following above- plan output: several thousand trucks and passenger cars, 31,000 bicycles, and 9,000 nickel-plated beds. DISORGANIZATION AT ZIS PLANT, SHIP TRUCKS -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 7 Oct 53 In August 1953, the Moscow Motor Vehicle Plant imeni Stalin failed to ful- fill its production plans for several important types of output. During the same month, production costs exceeded the limits set by the plan. In the first 8 months of 1953, losses due to rejects amounted to several million rubles; mire than 200,000 hours of overtime were authorized to make up for work stop- pages. Vlascv, the plant director, frequently assigns members of his administra- tive staff to replace the chiefs of lagging shops. These temporary chiefs have wide powers and usually meet the plan by utilizing large amounts of overtime. The pressing shops have been operating sporadically for several years. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700180076-7 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700180076-7 Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 9 Oct 53 Today, the Moscow Motor Vehicle Plant imeni Stalin loaded 50 trucks on railroad flatcars for shipment to kolkh---- _ DEFECTS IN ZIS-155 BUS -- Moscow, Pravda, 11 Oct 53 There are serious design defects in the ZIS-155 bus produced by the Moscow Motor Vehicle Plant imez,. Stalin. Repair wo k -_ __ aha 4f - . _ - r e and - h -- - e bus wear out rapidly, that body -- aare -e=not properly rust-proofed, and that the bus is inconvenient to repair. s Passengers complain that the bus is noisy and poorly ventilated h city bus for the _ i`le runt imeni Stalin has been developing an inter- has been done towardtthe develo Pment but tie of a project is o_ istrv been ar_ from comP complete. Even less o.s.,__ - .-_- new p us Exe uove coitt " ,,, -mmeeeager Transport, Mosco;i PLANT SAVES METAL, INCREASES ENGINE OUTPUT __ 24 Oct 53 petrozavodsk Leninskoye Znamya, group of experimental radiators made with anialloylthathis 2 1/2 times cheaper a large than the previous material used. about a million __ Use of the new mar,, , _111 The body shop has made almost 40 improvewents iu the design of the since 1951, saving enough in labor and materials to mak Moskvich e Mosccw, Pravda, 10 Nov 53 th nine more t e Moscow Small Displacement Motor Vehicle Plant produced automobile engines daily than it did in July, at the same t the production cost of engines. ime reducing 50X1-HUM Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700180076-7