DESIGNING AND PLANNING OFFICES OF THE METAL AND MACHINE INDUSTRY

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2002
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: November 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 it, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorised person Is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of We form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
SUBJECT Designing and Planning Offices of the
Metal and Machine Industry
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1. The Central Designing Office of the Machine Industry in Bytom is located on
jiba Powstancow Slaskich 6. About 450 people are employed at this office
divided into 12 sections. Each section is responsible for a particular techni-
cal specialty, e.g., steam engines, cranes, machine equipment for chemical
factories, etc. None of the problems king worked out are connected with war
production. The director of this office is one Jedrych (fnu),a trusted party
member who has almost no technical knowledge.
2. There is a branch of this office in Warsaw on U.1ica Filtrowa 83, headed by one
Okolow (fnu), a mechanical engineer and pre-war chief of the designing office
of the State Engineering Plant in Warsaw. Besides a permanent staff, a certain
number of professors from technical schools are employed part--time as experts
or advisors.
3. The Office of Plans for Metal Factories (Biuro Projekto-wania Zakladow Metalowych-
'rozamet) is located in War-taw on i ca Senatorska 4. They are responsible for
working out the detailed plans for any new metal factory that is to be built,
including buildings, equipment and all the manufacturing processes to be con-
ducted at the plant.
4. When such a project is completed it undergoes a careful examination conducted
by a special commission called the Commission for the Examination of Investment
Projects (Komisja Opinjowanja, Projektow Inwestycyjnych-Kopi).
5. The commission is not a permanent body; it is called together by the minister
of the ministry under whose jurisdiction the projected factory will fall. Its
members change depending on the kind of project to be examined. The members
of such; a commission, usually experts in:their 3eespective fields, are paid
about 100 zloty per meeting.
6. A project that passes the commission examination is then presented to the State
Economic Planning Commission (PKPG) for approval after which funds and priorities
are allocated.
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Soviet engineering standards have been gradually but more force-
fully introduced into Polish industry. Primarily concerned are the steel plants
and rolling mills which are expected to use the Soviet, standards for chemical
compositions, the technical properties of. the different steels produced, dimen-
sions and tolerances of rolled and drawn bars, and for tubes and profiles. In
addition, the Soviet system of fits has been used to a greater extent. The
Cbntral Designing Office of the Machine Industry in Bytom is provided with two
categories of Soviet standards for application: The COST (State All-Union
Standards) which are absolutely binding, and the OST (.All-Union Standards),
a kind QC."aiggasted standard not yet confirmed. Source states that the conversion
to Soviet engineering standards will result in enormous costs before they are
wholly adopted by Polish industry.
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