THE VLADE BOGAT PRECISION INSTRUMENT FACTORY ZADAR

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 2009
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 13, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
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SUBJECT The "Vlade Bogat" Precision Instrument DATE DISTR. 13 February 1953
Factory, Zadar
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The "Vl..ade Bogattt Precis ..on Instrument Factory, a military enterprise, is
located in Zadar in. the old section of the town,, opposite the "Vladimir
Nazorft park. Consta?uction of an extension to the factory was initiated
during 1950 at Planinna., between Turanj and Bokanjac.1 Foundations had
already been completed, when the construction was halted on 1 May 1952.
The construction work on this extension will reportedly be suspended for
three years, until a decision is reached as to whether the factory should
continue at Zadar or be transferred to Split.
The factory is constantly visited by military commissions composed of air.
., navy and antiaircraft officers. The following individuals have beef
force
identified as members of the executive staff at the "V.iade Bogat" Factory-.'
a. Lieutenant Colonel Branko Perisa, general manager;
b. Capta,Yn. Aco Sturovi.c,, Business manager, who has been appointed to the
Advanced Military Academy at Sarajevo. His replacement, an unidentified
engineer from Zagreb,,, has already arrived at the factory;
c. Cedoniir Gavrilovie, former military officer, secretary;
d. Lieutenant Ivica Satran, head of the UDB staff at the factory;
e. Captain Branko Stepcic, member of the UDB staff;
f. Captain Rade Culibrk, member of the UDB staff;
g. Zivota Markovic, secretary of the Communist cell at the factory;
Yugoslavia
Stjepan Slibar, military official;
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j . Matilda Drazi.c, military official;
k. Justica Gal, military official;
1. Ana Dukic, military official; and
in. Molnar (fnu), military official.
The various departments and their respective personnel at the factory have
been described. as follows:
a. Construction and prototype shop., to which are attached:
Engineer Rista Miletic, manager;
Us.nko Radic 9 technician;
Ivan Mstrovi, technician;
Dusan Kulezevic:, technician; and
Ljudevit Ros, manager of the prototype shop.
Electrical laboratory9 to which are attached:
(1) Dr. Milan V dmar, an engineer, -as manager.
(2) Three unidentified. technicians .:
~. Technical services, to which-are attached..
(1) Engineer Momdi.lo Stanojevic, manager; and
(2)
Eight unidentified technicians.
d, Tool construction and material preparation shop;
e. "Technological process11.shop to which are attached:
(1) Engineer Filaus, a former naval officer, manager;
(2) Three unidentified technicians; and
(3) Three unidentified industrial experts.
f. Productiondepartment, in charge of Franc Zurman, comprises the following
shops:
(1)
Lathe shop, which employs some 30.workers and operates on two different
eight-hour'shifts9 is equipped with four turret lathes for serial
production; nine lathes in a very bad state of repair; five milling
machines; one automatic drilling machine and tool grinding machine.
The foreman. of the lathe shop is Vlado Mracic, and the assistant fore-
man Petar Milic. Production of this shop includes basic parts for
navigation instruments, artillery fuses and torpedo aiming devices;
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(2) Tool shop,,-which employs some 15 workers under the control of Ivan
Bu jan9 foreman.; operates on a single eight hour shift. The tool
shop is-equipped with two lathes, two shaping machines, one drilling
machine, one rotary grinder, one horizontal grinder, one tool grind-
(3)
ing machine, one special pantograph,, and one tin plating machine
Assembly shop, which employs 20 workers, and is under the direction
of Karoo Vak, foreman; operates on a single eight hour shift.' The
assembly shop is equipped with two pantographs, five grinders, one.
special grinder and one drying. furnace. This shop is engaged in
assembling of inclinometers, speed measuring instruments, various
types of compasses, parallel blocks, ttTeinoctt signal lamps, helio-
graphs, sextants, wireless relays, fire control instruments (plans
are being drawn up for the production of fire control instruments
for the destroyer TRIGLAV - 51), and fuses of the following types:
(a) Type P.P.U., used for ground mines. The box shaped steel con-
tainer is produced at the t'Eduard Kardeljlf Turbine Factory in
Karlovac;
(b) Type D.V.U.G., used for mines and artillery shells. The parts
for these fuses are produced at a machine factory in Zagreb; and
(c) Four or five other types of fuses, on which details are lacking.
(Li.) Engine shop, with a staff of 1$ workers under the direction of Nikola
Drazic foreman; is equipped with one 80,000 kilogram eccentric press,
one 50,000 kilogram punching machine, constructed at the Iva Lola
Ribar Machine Tool Factory in Zelezni,k near Belgrade; one spring-
making machine, an unspecified number of metal. processing machines,
and other unspecified equipment. The engine shop is engaged in the
production of compass lids,. springs,, etc.; the repair of machinery
for the entire plant and the punching and pressing of material; and
(5) Foundry. Only one furnace, is .in operation at present, although three
new furnaces.hare recently arrived and are presently in the process
of installation.
4.
The following production targets were set at the factory for the third quarter
of 1952'(ending on 1 October 1952):
a. .100 parallel.blockso which were completed on I August 1952;
b. 15,000 D.V.U.G. fuses. Production of these fuses is being held up owing
to the lack of urgently needed springs
c.. 15,000 P.P.U. fuses, production of which is proceeding normally, inasmuch
as there is no shortage of necessary materials;
d. 200 '1Teinoctt signal lamps, production of which is proceeding normally
since essential materials are available; and
e. 200 ''direction plates?'
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ic), production of which is proceeding according
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Goods pro-
The quality of finished products at the factory is below average.
d.ced are very costly and their disposal presents some difficulty. This is
due to poor machinery, lack of skilled labor and superior raw materials. Cast-
ings are produced in the factory foundry. Of a series of 25,000 compasses
cast only 500 were found to be satisfactory, the remaining compasses were
porous and brittle. Navigation compasses are presently being produced from
'INS-58t' brass. Nickel plating and polishing is now done in the factory,
although previously it was done by the "Rikardo Bencic" Enterprise at Rijeka.
The greater part of the factory and its machine and installations are
nivEnioded. A few machines including two lathes
6. There are very few skilled workers at the factory despite the fact that all
the workers have attended the industrial school attached to the plant. Only
six of the earlier workers are still attached to the plant; these individuals
have been promoted to executive positions. Work norms are very high and are
seldom achieved. Monetary fines imposed on the workers for failure to meet
the required norms creates much dissatisfaction among them.
7. The industrial school attached to the "Viade Bogatf' Precision'Instramenatt of
Factory is directed by Ante Mikulincic, a former shop foreman. The instructors includes 15 engineers and technicians from the factory. The
subjects taught at'the school are: technology; mathematics, administration,
chemistry, physics, calculation, organization, machinery, Yugoslav history
and the Yugoslav constitution. Until 1950 only an elementary school educa-
tion was required for admission to the industrial school, however, admission
standards were raised during 1951. In order to be admitted to the school
now,, candidates must have completed four years of study at a secondary school.
Since 1952, the school has been opened to girl students as well as to men.
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