TESLA ROZNOV NATIONAL ENTERPRISE, ROZVOV POD RADHOSTEM PLANT

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 17, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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':x.319. Foznov National Enterprise, Pozriov pod
Radhostem Plant
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A4 .+-, ,ne Teslez Concern
took over and completed the factory buildings which had been under construction
for the Iunert4arnsdorf stocking plant. The construction work cos accomplished
by the Vaetin bi-aalch office of the Prumstav state o ned col pony for industrial
building projects. in two five- or six-story plant buildings, . ` production had
already star. t-xd The construction cf a third building had started in late 1952.
The plant was equipped with a the ical and a technical laboratory.
3. As was generally known in Roznov, since a great port of the population worked
in the -plant, t'.!e production ir.ciszded tubes for all types of radios and, in
the eastern workshop, also s p.ecial tubes for radar sets; furthermore sall sizes
of light bulbs for flashlights, rot^r vehicle lzi^ps, household and street lap ps
and in one derartr ent, fluorescent ?ramps, in the western wo`kshop, the g?aes
bulbs for light bulbs, neonias-rps, radio tubes etc. were produced. Lamps and
tubes were assembled in-the eastern an-' `lding.Radar and television sets
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t .d be produced in a third building still under construction.,
4, 1?.ost of the machinery available at the plant was of Czech origin. A Czech
who worked in the production department stated that the electric welding
apparatus for wires in light bulbs and radio tubes va;i of Dutch origin and
that because it was not available in Czechoslovakia such equixent had to be
imported illegally and to be shipped back illegally to the Netherlands for
repairs 4 Slouree helped on the assembly ofnautorzatic varnishing machine for
nicer sheets ,rbich drew to mica sheets thro ?,h an insu1atir.~; ' lac, euci ara.th End
dried therz ? uto ,tically, which Yarevious y had been done tea:?,ally ;ztt .
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_i . The Tesl.a. 'v plant in Roznov pod Radhostem (P 50/0 54) was located about 800
asters west of the railroad statian,just north of the Roznov - Val, Nezirioi
ailroad line Every Friday, the director of the eEla Roznov plant visited a
tesla plant located in Vrchlabi, which indicated a close connection
between the two plants. 1
2. The tube plant was newly constructed after IJGT TT x IQ
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fine brushes by women.
5. Yost of the products were packed in cardboard boxes which in turn were shipped
in wooden crates, about 75 x 100 x 150 on, Sono of the shirnents went to the
Central Tesla Office in Prague and to Vrchlabi, while parts of the products
were trucked for storage to the big Zbrojovka Vsetin epot in Vsetin,
which had bean used by the Wehrmacht during the war and fell undasraged into
Czech hands. The products shipped to Vsetin were referred to as "Radare"
(sic) in the plant. Vo further information was available.
6. Stem was produced by the rlant--owned boiler house. Since the -power supplied
by the factory power plant, did not cover the requirements, additional power
was received from a Tower plant near7'rebovice on the C-ppa river, located six
kilometers west of Ostrava The plant owned ten trucks.
7. The plant was guarded by armed industrial police. A special security office
issued gate passes with photographs which had to be extended every month.
rho precautionary air raid measures were observed.
8? Until about late 1951, the position of the plant director was held by Graduate
Engineer Schlesinger (fnu) who allegedly was replaced because of political
unreliability. A Bulgarian was chief of the chemical laboratory. In late 1952,
the work force included about 1,000 laborers working in the production depart>Lent
and about 300 employees working in the technical and chemical laboratory and in
the aa.ministratione Work was done in three shifts including one main shift during
the day. There was no production work on Sundays. The laborers, however, frequently
had to vo1 ilnteer to work in so-called brigades doing clearing, construction, and
transport work. Fifty to 60 percent of the work force were women including about
30C Greek women who had been deported by the Communists during the civil war. They
lived in small. :*ooris in a plant-&wned boarding house and were generally well
treated by the ,zechs. Gerr=ian experts or prisoners were not employed at the plant.
During 1952, the plant was visited by vaz?ious civilian commissions and one Soviet-
Czech military commissionwhicbcame during the spring of 19520
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previously a plant of the Lorenz Firm in Berlin,, now a branch plant of
Tesla :tcznov, produced electron tubes and housed the developrent
department for vacuum techniques.
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1 Western production building
2 Eastern rroduction building
Both five- or six-story buildings, about /,0 x .1Cl0 meters, were modern
steel frame buildings with concrete s'ootir s with large trindows and a
flat asphalted. roof u
3 Production building under construction. The foundations were completed
on schedule by late 1952, the superstructure. was to be started on 1 2'ay
1953p The building covered an area of about 40 x 100 meters a in late
1952 about 4.00 construction laborers of various construction firms worked
on the building, There was snough construction material available.,
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4 Boiler house and power plan'v- with brick ,mokestaek
5 Five or six-story brick buildings so-called boarding house for unmarried
Women.
.The building housed a material store arid, in the basement, the plant kitchen.
6 Loading ramp
vain gate
Side gate
9 Wire mesa fence, 1 to 102 m high, oxi o dations, about 1 meter high
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C Rtiosnov Railroad Station
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E So-called Ringplatz
F Park
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