AUTOPAL, NATIONAL ENTERPRISE, NOVY JICIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 15, 1954
• 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 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
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Autopal, National Enterprise,
Novy Jicin
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THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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15 July 1954
1. The plant of Autopal, National E1terprise,is located, north of Novy Jicin
(P5o/646) on the main road to Pribor, Along the road the factory is enclosed
by a plank fence 1.5 meter high, and, on the other side by a concrete wall
two meters high with barbed, wire on top.
2,. Of a total of 750 workers in the factory, about 250 are women. The factory
works three shifts; no brigad.e workers 9r prisoners are employed, here.
The factory produced the following:
a. Headlights for motor vehicles, abowt 7,000 per month;
b. Radiators for tractors, 200 per month;
c. Radiators for Skoda trucks, 200 per month;
d. Radiators for tanks,.. 250 per month (see separate desdript:on and sketch);
e I.
3 s about 1,.000 per month,
The Five-Year Plan is being fulfilled.90%, on the average.
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A tinsmith earned. about 1,000
Kcs, net monthly; a foreman, about 1,500. The manager's monthly salary
is 3,500 Kcs. net,
Management:
General Manager: Jaroslav Sommer.
Technical"manager: Miroslav Kirich.
Chairman of the works council: Kunz
Head of the pressi
Security official:
(fnu).
ng workshop: Jan Matous
Horak (fnu)
Deputy chairman of the works council: Macicek (fnu)
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In dartime the factory is guarded by three gatekeepers and during
the tight by two watchmen, accompanied by a dog. All are members of the factory
militia
8. The working morale in the factory can be called very low. Workmen are
chiefly dissatisfied with their low wages and the very high norms.
The following political organizations exist in the lant:
The Communist Party branch; the Youth Association SCM); and the SYI 1.
All of -them'~have political indoctrination lectures for their members,
once or twice a week and lasting 1ne to two hours.
104 a. Military vehicles storage: storehouses for military vehicles are located
in the vicinity of the tinsmith shop. servicemen
unloading Praga cars and Jawa-250 motorcycles. The storehouses are guarded
by two soldiers who are on duty in the guardroom and one solider
who patrols in the yard.. They carry pistols.
b.' Radiators for tanks: Radiator casings are made of 3 mm. thick sheets
of rust-resisting metal. The measurements are 150 cm. long, 80 cm.
high and. 15 cm. wide. There are some 200 cooling pipes in four rows
made of 0.5 mm. thick brass attached to the tanks. The horizontal
radiating flange is also made of brass 0.5 mm. thick. The distance
between flanges is 2 mm. There is no difference between the upper
and lower parts and, the radiator, may be turned upside rl? m,-. &,,.usbd?,5n
either position.
Legend. to the sketh'h of the Autopal Factory at Novy aLdin:
1. Guardroom.
2. Offices, two-story building, 30 x 8 meters.
3. Canteen, " T, " , 30 x 10 meters.
4. Sheet metal stores; a:15 m, b^20m, c-10, d^6; two-storyu.
5. Chimney.
6. Shipping department, 1 x 5 meters.
7p Tool shop, 20 x 10 meters.
8... Maintenance shop, two-stnry~ , 15 x 6 meters,
9.. Greenhouse and truck garden]
l0'.. Pressing shop, two-story i, 16,x 15 meters.
.,71. Galvanizing shop under construction., expected to be completed
this rear,. twos-story4t, 20 x 10 meters.
12. Gara es with the following vehicles: two Tatra (3,5 tons), one tractor,
one trapla,n, one Tatra 57a.
13. A vi is which belonged to the owner of the factor and has been
turn d.into the factory creche, twois1oryli, 15 x 8 meters.
14. Guam- om..
15.. Tins' th store (for production of radiators),
16. Tinsmith and turning shop, 20 x 15 meters..
17. Pond..
Military vehicles st age:
18, Garages and storehouses, 15 x 7 meters.
19. 10 x 6 meters.
2C.' 80 x 15 meters.
21. Wooden storehouses and. garages, 15 x 4 meters. 22. Guardroom.:
Legend to sketches of the pressing shops of the Autopal plant:
1. Storeroom for the pressing shop.
2. Lavatories.
3. Lavatories.
1, Sheet metal, storeroom:,
5. Pressing shop.
6. Galvanizing shop with 10 basins..
7. Machinery center for hydraulic presses.
8. Small Vblishing shop.
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Large polishing shop.
10.
Controls department for polishing shops.
11,
Galvanizing shop with 8 basins.
l2.
Finished. products storeroom.
13.
Corridors leab-ing to the elevator.
14.
Office of 'the head of the pressing shop.
15.
Pressing shop.
16.
Workshop where finished chrome-plated casings are cleaned with gasoline
and trichloride.
17.
Transformer.
18.
Elevator.
19.
Twd3lve presses, capacity 40 cm.
20.
Three straightening machines to straighten radiator casing.
21.
Electric annealing kiln, 2 meters long, 1,5 meters wide.
22,
Hydraulic press ('ritz Mueller-Ealingen)1, 6 meters high, 3 meters wide,
Capacity unknown.
23.
Six presses, capacity 20 am.
240:
Four power hammers.
25.
Four drawing presses, capacity 40 cmy pressure 30 to 40 tons.
26.
Compressor for the hydraulic press.
2 .
auxiliary,
25.
Container for compressed. air for the hydraulic press.
29.
Automatic machine, operating a hydraulic press.
30.
Five buffing wheels for metal-polishing.
31,
Five buffing wheels for ; tal-polishing which may also be used, as grinders.
32.
Twelve presses, capacity 20 to 30 cm,:
33.
Two straightening machines, one slicing lathe for cutting off edges of
limps which have come out of the presses.
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2.
3,
4.
5.
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Lavatories.
Basement;
1. Lavatories
2. Storeroom for various material.
3.-5: Cloakrooms.
6. Cleing shop where paint
is removed from badly sprayed
lamps, by means of compressed
air.
7.. Factory militia storeroom
(rifles,. SMG and ammunition -
quantities unknown).
$. Elevator.
9. Boilerhouse with three boilers
2 meters long and 1 1/2 mP highs
Drawing rooms and planning dept.
Assembly shop for lamps.
Storeroom for finished. lamps .
Riveting shop,
Technical manager a s office
Varnishing shop.
Silver-plating shop (lamp glass).
Technical office
Elevator.
Enclosure-. Map se~:ti.on (Air)
Possibly Esslingen is meant.
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Pressing shops of the Autopal Plant (11oa 10 on plant sketch)
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J-1 [Ij [fill-]
1,50 cm
Tank, radiator
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