MOTOZBYT, CENTRAL AUTOMOTIVE SALES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005300480003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 26, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
This material contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
I" of the Espionage laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Sees. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In
any manner to an unauthorized person Is prohibited
by law.
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Motozbyt, Central Automotive Sales
Office
DATE OF INFO.
DATE DISTR. 7 December 1954
NO. OF PAGES 3
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. The central marketing enterprise for all automotive equipment in Poland is the
CSS (Centrals Sprzetu Samochodowego_Central Automotive Sales Office) Motozbytl,
directly subordinate to the Motor Transport Department of the Ministry of
Transport. The head offices of Motozbyt are located at 13 Mazowiecka Street,
Warsaw, in a corner building in which are also located several departments of
the Ministry of Transport.
2. Motozbyt is the only enterprise in Poland engaged in local trading in automobile;
spare parts, accessories, and equipment. Its sources of supply are the local
automotive industry and an import company which supplies spare parts for foreign-
made motor vehicles.
39 The enterprise's capital investment plan for 1954 (projects for the construction
of additional warehouses, repair of existing buildings, and their adaptation to
the enterprise's requirements) amounted to 6,400,000 zlotys. The plan included
the opening of an additional Motozbyt wholesale plant at Poznan on 1 January 1955.
This plant will have a storage space of 5,500 square meters.
4. The company's capital investment plan for 1955, as already prepared by the head
office, was tentatively fixed at 9,000,000 zlotys. Although not yet approved
by the Ministry of Transport, the plan includes the construction of an apartment
building for company officials to be erected opposite the Ministry of Public
Security. The building is to have 22 two-room apartments, and its cost is
estimated at 2,000,000 zlotys.
5. Motozbyt does not maintain a central warehouse to supply its five regional
wholesale warehouses and 13 retail stores. Although the overall policy and
the orders submitted to the supplier are subject to confirmation by the national
head office, each regional wholesale branch operates independently, drawing its
stock directly from local suppliers and/or from the import company. The retail stores
are supplied by either the wholesale branches or directly by the producers.
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6. Wholesale branches are only allowed to sell automotive supplies to large
customers, such as factories, transport companies, and other enterprises
which operate large fleets of motor vehicles. The Motozbyt retail stores
serve the small consumers.
In 1954 the total storage space of all Motozbyt wholesale and retail branches
amounted to approximately 22,000'square meters. The following particulars are
known about the location, warehouse space, and expansion plans of the five
regional wholesale branches belonging to Motozbyt:
a. The Warsaw branch is located on Wlochowska Street outside the city, near
Okecie Airfield. It occupies three large halls built of reinforced concrete and
covered with a roof of prefabricated, reinforced concrete plates. The total floor
space of the building is 3,500 square meters, and the three halls, which took
four years to build, were completed in 1953. A plan to construct a railroad
siding for the warehouse has been approved by the Ministry of Transport, but the
construction materials have not as yet been supplied. The railroad siding was
scheduled to be completed by the end of 1954, but construction had not begun as
of July 1954. The initial investment plan for 1955 provides for the construction
of two additional storage halls, with a floor space of 2,000 square meters, at a
cost of 4,500,000 zlotys. The new halls are to be built of reinforced concrete
and brick and will include a basement and a ground floor, 3.80 meters and 6.75
meters in height respectively. A separate MMotozbyt branch located in Warsaw,
stocked with spare parts and other equipment for buses and trucks, exclusively
serves the PKS national transport enterprise. It has a floor space of 1,200
square meters,
b. The Krakow branch, located a 3 Przemyslowa Street in a former alcohol
factory, consists of six old buildings of different sizes which are being repaired
and adapted as warehouses. They are to be completed by the end of 1955 and will
have a total floor space of 5,000 square meters. These buildings also have
basements with additional floor space of 700 square meters.
c. The Lublin branch is located in a two-story building on Przemyslowa Street.
It has a total floor space of 2,000 square meters, and no expansion of the branch
is planned for 1955.
d. The Torun oranch is located in a building in the center of the town with
a total floor space of 2,000 square meters. The branch also has some storage
rooms in an old fort, which was let to Motozbyt by the military authorities.
Nothing of any value is stored at the fort, and there is free access to these
rooms,
e. The Lodz branch is located outside the town in Zibikowek, a recently
built storehouse area. The storage halls of this branch will have a total floor
space of 3,500 square meters and are to be completed by the end of 1954. The
warehouse has its own railroad siding.
8. The general policy of Motozbyt is to organize its branches into specialized
wholesalers who will handle only the products of a certain manufacturer. The
products have thus been grouped into categories according to their make and use,
and consumers wishing to purchase automotive articles and equipment must order
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