SOVIET CENTRAL MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR SHOP AT BERLIN-OBERSCHOENEWEIDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004800490003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 13, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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East Ge. -maa.ny
Soviet Central Motor Vehicle Repair Shop
;VALUATION-1.___
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED-
REFERENCES
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STAINED
REPOR1
at Bbrlin 0berschoeneweide
13 August 1954
AGES- ~p ENCLOSURES CA & TYPEDa..A._
u EMARKS-This is UNEVALUATED
1. The following equij inent was either repaired or newly manufactured
at the Soviet cent: -a1 motor vehicle repair shop in Oberschoeneweide
in April,, May and ,-ne 1954;
Engines, ove rhauleu':
Studebaker vylinde: ? blocks
with cylinderheads
and quarter bends
small busses with cep chassis
25
25
23
Conmand cars
-
8
g
Large busses
5
3
5
Workshop trucks
5
Lathes
10
15
10
Grinding m&chines
5
8
5
Drilling m chines
10
15
25
Work benches
50
Work benches
100
Filing machines
40C .
400
ZIS brake drums
40C
300
100
Cardan shafts
5,000
3,9000
3,500
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Pistons
Studebaker floating axles
Seats for small busses
Machine gun ammunition boxes
In May and June 1954, the following
from Zeessn for complete overhaul.:
250
300
engines ,,arse sent to Oberschoenew,reide
ZIS Studebaker
ra 100 105
June 120 160
Chevrolet W'illa,s Gas Ford
60 90 18 18
30 130 30
In May 1954, an additional six chassis to be installed in workshop
trucks were sent from Zeesen to Oberschoenew~-ide,
In l':ay and June, the following engines which had been overhauled
were sent to Zeesena-
ZIS Studebaker Ghovro1e~. Will. ys Gas
May 95 105 60 105 15
June 110 150 25 125 25
4.
Raw material which arrived during the period "Prom r id Aprii to late
June 1954 included 5 carloads of pig iron in nars on 23 April and
2 carloads of old rails on 28 April., In mid , xne9 10 carloads of
scrap and 8 carloads with tubes for Cardan s,';~xfts arrived at the
workahop,
Curing the period from ini.dApril to `=ate June, the following
shipments of new material a? nufactured at C b -.;-schoeneweide were
dispatched-
{3 2..6 L? r s 2 carloads with 500 ZIS brake r-i-li ?~s and 600 Cardan
shafts bound for. Ketschendor?f ,
Ott e r L 5 carloads with 500 Studebaker cylinder blocks and
l carload of C&rdan shafts bound for Brest T:?;ovsk.
Q.n l_2 &U 2 carloads with. 200 ZIS cylinder 'locks, 2 carloads '4 h
200 Studebaker cylinder blocks, 2 carloads ,h
250 boxes containing
9 cardan shafts each, and I carload of 150 c tes with spare parts
bound fc Brest Litovsk,
On 28 XI~LX*- 2 carloads with 200 Studebaker c;.iincer blocks, 1 carload
with 150 boxes with Cardan. sh' fts, 1. carload ? :%th 15{0 boxes with
floating axles bound for Tech loproirkoort :?.`os ! .ya ,Squa:~ e 31W37, 1:os~;,owo
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in 31n, e 2 carloads with work benches,, 2 carloads -with tool
boxes and 2 carloads with 200 ZIS cylinder hlc)cks,
a,.0_20 6 carloads with Studebaker cylinder block,, 3 oarloado
with Cardan shafts,, and 1 carload with float:; ng axles `bound for
Technoproiinport in Moscow,
The equipment bound for the USSR was thrrough'.y greased and packed
in oil paper and tar board, The boxes were lav-ded with strap it on,=
Lou-quality materiel. is being; used for vehicl(-ts to be overhauled
at the Cberschoeneweide plants while high qu ity -,mteer;tal is being
sent to the USSR or Ketschendorf.
6. After the beginning of l9549 the Soviet moto ? vehicle repair shop
at Ober et:oeneweide was name Werk pro ass,
7. In late April,, the workshop was assigned two German trucks
The trucks Dame from Leipzig and,,
according to the drivers, had nevi, usly been assigned to a Soviet
unit in Leipzig which had been deactivated0
ry'
8. The cylinder blocks and heads manufactured at Werk Progress were cast and processed at the plant in order to be dispatched
ready for as Fmr bly., Although pistons could `he produced. at the
plan.t9 the pistons for overhauled engines wex'c supplied by the
Ketchendorf plant which also delivered other i pare pants such as
fuel feed pumps, etc a Other engines were dis x tehed without pistons.
No crankshafts were manufactured at the plant. 'luring the time under
r?eview. After crankshafts for Studebaker, Z1;3 and Chevrolet engines
had been manufactured on tr ial9 the machinery eras sent to the Uwr{
in April 1954, Cardan si,afts were manufactured only for Studebaker,
vehicles,, Two short parts and two long parts ware needed for one Garden
transmission for Studebaker vehicles, Stocks of cardan shafts on hand
were between 69000 and 89000. Cardan s:.mfts are racked in parts of
nine and not in whole units. Almost all machina tools manufactured at
the plant`. had the size of those used in ?e rkah:)p trucks. Large lathes with
a ma rry length of abou4 4 meters between t^=. centers were only
repaired or overhauled at the plant, Cver?haule:t engines of poor
quality only were being returned to the Zeensr.plant, Since late Ywy
1954, test drives with Cardan shafts nanufacti reed at the larnt were
being made The
trucks were
9Q
an estimated 300 German workers, On 2 June? i.2 guns includingg
8 x 12122--m field howitzers and 4 x 76..iai A ie:1 . guns were loaded at
said to have come from Fuerstenw&t ie,
The motor vehicle spare part depot at Ketschs,. to 0f was operated by
the depot,
2, Careen, The production figures are not 3wor?thy?, The
man u a,ctewe of machine gun box --s iq reported r )r the f first time,
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Cormierrt.
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-rla a 3ov unit- v'ae deactivated in Leipzig has been received,,
If the information is correct, it would only be a minor supply
?snit
Cor rent o The two trucks belong to the :.95th Engr P egt of the
Third Ods Hoch Army in Sperenbergo
,
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Is given ereeence, since the motor vehicle er
r e part depot and
ordnance and equiraient depot in Fuersten,,rasde.-4cetscher.dorf are
located in. the same area. The motor vehicles "i:e1one; to the iiq
G`? , the Rear Services of the G rrAy the arrly troops of the Second
and .",ourth Gds P'ech Armies, the 7th Gds 1'ech Div, the 11.tf Gda
Mech Div and the 2d AAA Dive
Cane The statement that onnns Y ax a h Az
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