VICTORIOUS FEBRUARY WORKS (FORMERLY SKODA WORKS) AT HRADE KRALOVA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004200970002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 26, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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
INFORMATION REPORT to amended. Its transmission or revelation its contents
to or r receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form Is prohibited.
SECRET/CONTROL - U,S. OFFICIALS ONLY
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Victorious February Works (formerly
Skoda Works) at Hradec Kralove
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 8 June 195425X1
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
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THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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to The Kukleny plant of the Victorious February Works (Zavody Vitezneho Unora)
in Hradec Kralove (formerly Skoda Works Hradec Kralove) delivered,in the
third week of July 1953, the first huge high-pressure tank of the series ordered
by the USSR.The tank weighs 32 tons, is made of solid steel on the outside, and
plated inside with copper sheets three mm, thick. The standard operating
pressure is 80 atmospheres, and testing pressure, mainly for invisible leaks,
may be applied up to 120 atmospheres. The main technical problem consisted of
the direct welding, and this was achieved by a special technical pressure,
so-called argon arc welding, unusual in this kind of work. Another technical
improvement was the direct welding of copper'inlays of the apertures to the
rust-resistant washers, by a copper welding mixture, previously done exclusively
by a silver soldering mixture.
2. Power hammers are being produced in a plant of the Victorious February Works
in Hradec Kralove which is located in the vicinity of the village of Plotiste,
along the highway to Jaromer. In the summer of 1953, one of the workshops
was engaged in making a 10-ton power hammer.for the USSR.
3o Other workshops of the Victorious February Works make machinery and equipment
for sugar. refineries, hydroelectric plants, etc,
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