TRANSFORMER STATION IN VAC

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002200270033-2
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 11, 2005
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: September 15, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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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
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Transformer Station in Vtc
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1. The Vao transformer station in Hungary, on which work was largely Comploted
by 1 November 1952, is located on the road at a point about 600 meters
north of the Via-VerIce railroad junction. It is situated at a junotio3
between the main road and a secondary road leading off to the east. (Sea
Annex A for the location of the transformer station.)
2. Along the main road is the combination office building and distribution
house: of the Vic transformer station. Its foundation is made of concrete
and brick; the walls of the four-meter-deep basement are specially inausated
with asphalt covered with double insulating sheets. The basement ceiling
is made of roinforoed concrete 85 om. thick and has two 40 x 40,om, openings,
probably for circuit routings. Spiral steps lead to a door which is rein-
forced with a 20 mm. steel plate. The office part of the building complex
consists of five offices on the first floor and three offices on the
second floor. On the ground floor there is one office with windows facing
the east and the north; two rooms have windows facing the north; one
office has windows facing the north and the west and another has windows
facing the went. 1
3. The distribution house has four rooms along its eastern side; there are
seven windows which are 1.60 x 1.40 m., barred, and framed in soft wood;
each window has eight panes. There are two exits; a.. french door 200 x 180
cm. large leading into the office building, and one on the south side which
is 110 x 180 om. large. On the went side of the distribution house are
three rooms and seven windows and one exit. The windows are identical with
those on the east side. The floor is'made of concrete and the walls, so-
called "Rabitz" walls, are about 20 om. thick. They ari made of double
wire net set into a wooden mould filled with concrete. The.doors are
made of thin sheet iron, secured with a simple look, and have indicator
lights of aluminum.
Room 6 - This room has three switches (allegedly oil switches) which
are mounted on blocks about 30 cm. high. The circuits lead through
housings to a room on the second floor.
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Rom 17 - This is the assembly workshop and is equipped with assembly
benches-, electric motors and hand tools. There are ceiling lights
and ventilators.
Depot for reserva material and spare parts.
Rooms -.Entrance room with stairs to the second floor.
Room This room is equipped with mounted electric motors of high
ogty from which powerful circuits lead to the second floor.
Ao - Was empty at the end of 1952.
- Switch room with two switches mounted on cement blocks
and oir uits leading-to the second floor.
4. On the second floor of the distribution house is a large room with
}pillars to support the roof. In the middle are "Rabitz" wall cells
with 22 switches. The circuits enter the room from the distribution
yard through openiigs in the wall on the east side of the distribution
yard. This room has eight windows and on the south aide a door which
opens out onto a small balcony.
5. The distribution yard has 72 reinforced concrete poles which are sunk
160 cm. deep in cement blocks. These poles are nine meters high and
46 x 72 am. in cross section. On top of the poles mre beams 42 x 42 am.j
these beams have iron studs from which hang prix^oelain insulators. `There
are aluminum o6i1s of 30 - 40 turns which are attached to each of the
three insulators between each pole. The coils are 1.50 m. apart. Above
the transformers are branch circuits mounted on the same kind of cciir.
There are three transformers set on five by three meter concrete blocks
which are two motors deep. These transformers are made in Hungary and
weigh about 4,000 kg. each. There are 12 smaller transformers mounted
in groups of three. Between the transformers are partitions two meters
high and 30 cm. thick] one is a brick wall covered with cono ete. Between
each row of transformers is a macadam path leading to the Vao3alassagyar-
mat main road. (See Annex 0 depicting the distribution yard.)
6. The sket of the distribution yard shows the long distance lines leading
to the V o transformer plant'
L 1) comes supposedly from B4ida and crosses the Danube about
one kilometer south of Vac' runs along the east side of the
city and enters the distribution yard on the east stdd.
L 2) comes from the north. These lines come from.the direction
east of Szendehely, Hungary.2
L 3) comes from the direction of Miskolo.3
Five long-distance lines are set on the poles, three above and two below.
The lines are attached to the poles in the distribution yard and then
lead up to the switch house. From the switch house the current is sent
into the transformers and then back again into the switch house.
7. Most of the equipment for the transformer station came from the Ganz
Electrical Equipment Factory; part supposedly came from Czechoslovakia.
The Hungarian firm Vertex set up the switch house and the transformers;
18 assemblers from Czechoslovakia participated in this work.
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25X1 1. I IComments This wire net is probably comparable to the Americpn
10-12 pound mesh.
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2 5X1 3. F----(Comment; It is assumed that this circuit comes from the Matra
power station.
Annexes: (A) Location of the V Transformer Station
(8) Fire Floor of the Office-Distribution Building.
(0) Distribution Yard (with, Legend).
Enoloeuret a. envelope containing original repgrt on the transformer at
Vtc Rnd the cement works at Nagyeaall (3 payee) (MR)
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Annex A: -4n
Location of VIo Transformer Station
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To Budapest
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Annex B:
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First Floor of the Offige Distribution
Building at the Ve,c Transg9rmer Station
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Distribution Yard of Vats
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Legend for Dietriution Yard of Vao
Transformer Station
A - Offioe building
B - Distribution house
C - Distribution yard
0 - Poles
M - Maoadem paths
13 - Large transformers
14 - Small transformers
15 - Partition walls
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