TOS MACHINE TOOL PLANT, RAKOVNIK, AND ITS BRANCHES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000300590012-1
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• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2009
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: March 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
TOS Machine Tool Plant, Rakovnik,
and its Branches
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
Frantisek Krob, manager.,
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1, TOS (Tovarny obrabecich stroju), national enterprise for the production of
machine tools, has an administrative headquarters in Rakovnik (N51/128),
to which the following plants are subordinated,
a. TOS in Rakovnik,
b, TOS plant in Roztoky, near Beroun (N50/L57),
c, TOS plant in Lubenec (N51/P98),
d, TOS plant in Prague-Holesoviceo
20 The following are important personnel in the Rakovnik administrative
headquarters
bo Frantisek Papez, chief of plant administration,
c, Oldrich Vostry, chief of plant control,
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The TOS Plant in Rakovnik
3,, The Rakovnik plant consists of two departments: the foundry and the mechanical
workshop. Both are situated on the southern edge of the city, but they are
divided from each other by a road,
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The total number of employees is 3.,0009 the proportion of clerical employees to
workmen being 1 to 2.2.
5. The foundry employs 500 persons. It produces grsy'alloys and yellow metals.
The monthly production plan amounts to 2500 'O00-Kos,, and the plan is being
fulfilled. The entire putput of this department isshipped to the various TOS
plants under the Rakovnik managements
6. The mechanical workshop employs 2.500 xoersonss It assembles prototypes of
various hydraulic presses.
this department is lagging far below the norms.
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The TOS Plant in Rostokk
7. This plant employs 800 persona and has modern equipment. It produces Bakelite
presses, Mark IB , a vertical press, A pump is'attached to each pressp and
these pumps are also produced at the plant. Production norms are being fulfilled;
yearly output of the bakelite presses is as follows.
IB 30 (1.epp for 30 tons pressure) 30 presses
LB 54 30 presses
LB 60 30 presses,
IB 100 30 presses,
LB 150 10 presses
LB 250 10 presses
LB 500 5 presses
The TOS Plant in Lubenec
8. The Lubenec plant employs about 800 personso It produces Trolite presses.
A pump is attached to each. press. These are produced-by the Sigma Pump Works
at Olomouc. Annual production of these presses, known as LTR presses,3 is. as
follows.
LTR 12 45 (i.e., shutter or out-off power, 12 tons-; 60 presses
pressing powers, 4.5 tons)
LTR 47 14
LTR 80 29
The TOS Plant at Prague-Holesovice
25 presses
15 presses
9. The Holesovice plant belonged to Eng. Josef Polak before World War TI. During
the war it was called the Proma Works and was owned by Eng. Brezina (fnu). It
is located in Prague VII, (Holesovice) at Delnicka 639 opposite the Tesla
plant. Access is through a gate in the front building on Delnicka Street.
This is a three-story building which contains the administrative offices. A
corridor leads from this building into the first of the machine shops., which is
a building of about the same size. About 200 persons are employed at this
plant.
10. The Holesovice plant produces presses for metal manufacture. They were formerly
known as Polak presses. Practically the entire output is for exports, 80%
of production going to the USSR. Czechoslovakia has little need for these
presses at present, and during 1952 only one of them went to a domestic plant.
Replacement needs in this line have been taken care of through reparations
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11, When a machine is ready, one or two Russians visit the plant and make a very
superficial inspection of it. They are considered utterly unqualified to
inspect the machines by the staff. They are members of the Soviet Commercial
Attache's staff and are billeted in the Belvedere Hotel on Letna Avenues, where
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they have offices as well. After being inspectede the machines are packed,,
sealed and shipped to Chops on the Czech-USSR borderq
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Comment. "IB" stand for Lis bakelit,
Comment. The name Trolite is presumably a proprietary brand of
some synthetic resin like Bakelite..
Comment WITR" stands for Lis Trout,
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