MILITARY PRODUCTION AT THE URSUS TRACTOR FACTORY IN WARSAW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004900820005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2007
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: June 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Poland
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.B.C. Secs. 793
.and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
SECRET - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
SUBJECT Military Production at the Ursus
Tractor Factory ix Wareaw
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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21 October 1954
1. The Ursus tractor factory at Warsaw is as an example of
the factories which are part of the war industry, but which are officially
subordinate to, in this case, the Ministry of Agriculture and which are said
to manufacture only, for example, tractors for agriculture.
2. The Ursus factory has been enlarged several times and now occupies an area
measuring 1.5 by 1.8 kilometers.
3. Since the beginning of 1951, positions such as foremen (verkchef) and chief
designer have been occupied by Soviet officers. Of the Polish engineers,
several have pursued special studies in the Soviet Union for several years.
The number of employees totals 14,000, working in three shifts.
4. The factory is organized into five departments, four of which will shortly
carry out conveyor-belt production.
5. Production probably amounts to about 12,000 tractors per year. At the same.
time, the following is also manufactured:
a. Wheel bands (tracks) for T-34 tanks, as well as for an 80 to 90-ton tank
(possibly the JS-3). Trial manufacture of tracks for a very light tank
has been started and large-scale manufacture of similar tracks should
begin during 1954.
b. Spare parts bO motors.
c. Arm-orfor tank engines (this is sent to a factor y in Silesia).
d. Arinor (parts) for aircraft engines. Said to be manufactured of rubber,
oil, and chromium manganese steel.
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6. The Ursus factory is said to be organized for a rapid conversion to the
exclusive production of a light tank.
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