STOCKING AND SHOE FACTORY AT TREBIC

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 13, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Stocking and . Shoe .Factory at Trebic
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J., The stocking factory and the shoe plant at Trebic Borovina LL913N-1553EUWere founded
by J.A. Bata as. part of the Bata Concern in 1936. LF'or the exact location of
these factories, see.Annex A.,. At that time'Bata purchases a tannery at Trebic-
Borovina owned by the Budisehovsky Firm, which, was being liquidated. Bata
erected a new power plant, boiler house, and two five-.story production buildings,
20 x 80 m. i,n size. Equipment for the production of standard. type stockings
and leather footwear was transferred into the new buildings from the Bata Works
s at Otrokovice L79121N-1732E7and Zlin, now Gottwaldov. Both factories were originally
called Bata, but the stocking'factory was renamed Kotva just prior to the out-
break of World War II; the shoe factory continued to be called Bata. In 1948
both .factories bore the name Svit National Enterprise, Gottwaldov, T 27514 31514.
As a result of the reorganization of the, former Bata Concern in 1951 and 1952,.
the stocking factory was incorporated into the textile industry and the shoe
lant became independent. the present names of the to fact,aries.1
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After 1948 (fnu)Kozenda was manager o oth plant; he was later replaced ),y 25X1
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(fnu) Hajek. After the reorganiz n 1 fnu Polacek was a ointe
in>3nc~apr of the stockin factoryv 25X1
2. In the summer of 1952,abou,t goo two-cylinder and about 200 one-cylinder hosiery
knitting machines were in operation at the stocking factory LSee Annex Ja About
50 of the two-cylinder knitting machines. produced winter socks. of the Wellington
type. These socks were carded on a special machine invented by the Bata Works
as early as 1935, which did carding on steel frames. The other equipment of the
factory was of the ordinary type.
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The stocking and, shoe factories employed about 1,000 persons each In
the . er o 1952. They had a common designing team consisting of
six persons who were. headed ley (fnu) qV ' ' zJ1. a
Both factories were unfavorably located in a narrow basin, a fact
Whi.eh precluded the possibility of expansion or the construction of
.a railroad. spur so that all transport had to be by trucks.
Annexes; A. Shoe Plant, Stocking factory, and Kovosvit National
Corporation in Trebic
B. Circular One-Cylinder Hosiery Knitting Machines
bbM,eri,t? e shoe factory is now probably named Gustav 25X1
Kliment Works, National Enterprise (Zavody Gustava Klimenta n.p.), and
is under the authority of the Central.Administration for the Leather and
Shoe Industry (Alavni sprava kozedelneho a obuvnickeho prumyslu), a
division of the Ministry of Light Industry. This nom has appeared. in the
Czech newspapers as a, shoe factory in Trebie-Borovin. a9
there was only one shoe factory in the town;,'
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Shoe Plant, Stocking Factory, and Kovoavit National
Corporation in Trebio
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Legend 1. Shae....pldnt..
2. Stooking factory, production hall
Power. house
1DyeWorks and various departments of the stocking factory
5. WOrrkere' residences
6. Railroad station, Ripov
7 Kovpsvit National Corporation
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11. Approximate location of the scheduled new Sovosvit plant.
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