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

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• Publication Date: May 3, 1954
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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
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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.
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The Gor'kiy Motor Vehicle Plant imeni Molotov receives close cooperation
from some of the plants that supply it with mate
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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.
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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.
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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
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complain that the bus is noisy and poorly ventilated
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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
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nine more
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automobile engines daily than it did in July, at the same t
the production cost of engines.
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