SOVIET TRACTORS, ENGINES, TRACTOR AND FARM MACHINE SPARE PARTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700190007-2
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2011
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 8, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic; Technological - Tractor industry
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers and monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED Aug-24 Dec 1953
PREPARE TO PRODUCE SKIDDING TRACTORS -- Moscow, Trud, 5 Dec 53
The Minsk Tractor Plant is completing preparations for the series production
of the improved model of the KT-12 skidding tractor.
FULFILLS 1953 PRODUCTION PLAN -- Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 20 Dec 53
On 17 December X953, the Kharkov Ti.ctor Plant imeni Ordzhonikidze com-
pleted its 1954 production plan. The plant produced 5.3 million rubles.' worth
of tractor spare parts..
During the first 11 months of 1953, the plant effected a saving of 10.8
million rubles instead of the 6 million rubles it had pledged to save, and in-
creased labor productivity by 13.4 percent instead of 12 percent.
In 1954, as compared to 1953 figures, total output will be increased by
70 million rubles, the production of spare parts will be increased by 35 per-
cent, and output of steel castings will be increased by 18 percent.
The plant also plans to release 50C square meters of space for the pro-
duction of additional consumer goods.
The plant pledged to complete preparatory work for mass production of row-
crop tractors ahead of schedule, and to improve the quality and the durability
of the DT-54 tractor.
DATE OF
INFORMATION
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
SOVIET TRACTORS, ENGINES, TRACTOR AND FARM MACHINE SPARE PARTS
On 22 December 1953, the Kharkov Tractor Plant fulfilled its pledge to
produce 1,000 tractors in excess of the 1953 production plan.
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In the fourth quarter of 1953, labor productivity at the plant :reased
6 percent as compared to labor productivity in the third quarter.
In 1953, time consumed in the production of each tractor has been reduced
by 92 hours as compared to 1952 figures.
MEETS PLAN AHEAD OF SCHEDULE -- Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 24 Dec c3
On 22 December 1953, the Vladimir Tractor Plant completed the 1953 pro-
duction plan for tractors and spare parts.
Several hundred more tractors were produced in 1953 than in 1952.
During 1953, the plant carried out extensive work for the improvement
of production methods. Six new constant-flow lines were installed. Constant-
flow lines which existed before were perfected. The time to produce each trac-
tor has been reduced by 15 hours as comparei to tFe time it took to produce a
tractor in 1952. Production cost of each tractor was 613 rubles below the
planned production cost.
TRACTOR PLANT WASTES METAL -- Moscow, Finansy i Kredit USSR, Aug 53
Engine blocks for the DT-54 tractor produced by the Stalingrad Tractor
Plant are 15 kilograms heavier than identical blocks produced by the Kharkov
Tractor Plant.
KAZAKH SSR PLANT FAILS TO FULFILS, PRODUCTION PLANS -- Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya
Pravda, 2 Dec 53
During the first 10 months of 1953, the Kustanay Machinery Plant, Ministry
of Agriculture and Procurement Kazakh SSR, fulfilled only 54 percent of its plan
for capital repairs of tractor engines, 38 percent of its plan for repairing
combine engines, and produced considerably less parts for machines and heavy oil
engines than planned. The cost of production has been very high.
Tyurin, plant director, states that the plant management is paying particular
attention to the needs of the engine repair shop. The supply department, however,
ignores the needs of the engine repair shop, and sets limits on material and spare
parts supplied to the shop. During the first 20 days in November 1953, the engine
shop was not supplied with oxygen for welding work. During that period, the shop
did not repair a single engine pars, but used expensive new parts in repairing
engines.
The plant engine exchange pool has 48 SKhTZ engines, but not a single engine
for STZ-NATI, DT-54, and other tractors.
In the summer of 1953, the local office of Glavmashsbyt (Main Adn nistration
for the Sale of Machine Building Output) was supplied with 25 engines for STZ-NATI
tractors) for delivery to the Kustanay Machinery Plant, but, for some unknown
reason, the plant refused to accept the delivery of these engines.
PRODUCE SPARE PARTS FOR TRACTORS, FARM MACHINES -- Moscow, Moskovskiy Komsomolets,
8 Dec 53
The Moscow Dinamo Plant imeni S. M. Kirov has produced more than 15,000 spare
parts for tractors, planters, and potato-harvesting machines; and over 200 units
of electrical equipment for agricultural machine building enterprises.
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DEVELOP NEW DYNAMOMETER -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 12 Dec 53
The All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Agricultural Machine Building
has developed a dynamomet^.r for testing tractor power needed for agricultural ma-
chines and the power used by engines.
The Experimental Plant of the Institute has begun series production of the
new dynamometers. Dynamometers will be assembled during the second half of De-
cember 1953.
The institute has also developed a device for determining the compactness
of scil.
COMPI.ETE PRODUCTION PLAN FOR TRACTOR UNITS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE -- Moscow, Komsomol'-
skaya Pravda, 15 Dec 53
On 14 December 1953, the Moscow Plant imeni Budennyy completed its 1953 pro-
duction plan for hydraulic systems for row-crop tractors.
In 1953, the production cost o? the hydraulic system was reduced by 25 per-
cent as compared to 1952.
Yerevan, Kommunist, 16 Dec 53
Since the beginning of 1953, the Moscow Plant imeni Budennyy produced 1,300
above-plan power take-off units with hydraulic controls. The plant has also pro-
duced a large number of spare parts for tractors anu agricultural machines.
PRODUCE TRACTORS -- Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 25 Dec 53
The Lipetsk Tractor Plant has begun the series production of the KDP-~5
tractor. These row-crop tractors are leaving the assembly line In a continuous
stream.
CRITICIZE ENTERPRISES PRODUCING PARE PARTS -- Moscow, Pravda, 23 Dec 53
The work of repair enterprises of the Ministry of Agriculture USSR must be
greatly improved. Repair enterprises are called on to supply a large number of
tractor and combine engines to MTS. At Present, major engine repairs are being
carried out very imsatisfactorlly. Extremely unsatisfactory work is being done
by repair enterprises of the Mordovskaya ASod; and Gor'kovskaya, Rostovskaya,
Ivanovskaya, and Saratovskaya obla,ts. These enterprises fulfilled less than
one-third of their production plans during the fourth quarter of 1953.
Much repair work is being delayed because of shortages of spare parts.
During the past several years, enterprises of the Ministry of Machine Building
USSR and the Ministry of Transport and Heavy Machine Building USSR have been
behind schedule in the production of spare parts for tractors and tractor-
drawn machines. In the fi-st 11 months of 1953, the spare parts production
lag amounted to 90 million rubles. MPS are in great need of crankshafts, cylin-
der heads, bushings, and other parts for S-80, DT-54, STZ-NATI tractors, but the
producing plants chronically fail to fulfill orders for these parts.
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