VEB IFA PHAENOMEN MOTOR VEHICLE WORKS, ZITTAU

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005300750003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT VEB IFA Phaenomen Motor Vehicle Works,
Zittau
REPORT NO.
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
29 November 195+
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVAIUATiONS IN THIS RETORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE A/IRAISAL Of CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(fOR KEY tSEE REVERS[)
The following is a report on the situation at VEB IFA Phaenomen motor vehicle
warka, Zittau, at the end of August 1954?
1. ~e~sonnel:
The personnel numbers about 2,000 workers.
2. Sh ft
The plant works three shifts. No work is carried out on Sundays.
~. Twe of Product:
(e) The products are 1-ton and 1-~-ton vehicles with Diesel and gasoline engines,
of the following typess
Bus
Box vans. (Lastkraft~,-a~en (LKW)-Kasten)
Jeeps. (Militaikuebelwagen)
(b) The engines are supplied by the VEB Dieselmotorenwerk Ramenz and stampings
for the hood and the driver's cabin come from the Phaenomen plant at Seifhannersdorf.
These are assembled at the Phaenomen works along with the chassis. The bodies
are produced and Pitted to the chassis by a plant at Bautzen, at which site the
chassis arrive by rail.
(c) The vehicles are fitted with engines of the following types:
(1) 60 HP Granit Diesel engine.
(2) 55 HP Otto gasoline engine.
(d) The attached Sketch Nc. 2 is a ditaaram of the chassis of a box van. Chassis
intended for buses and deeps have no driver's cabins and the ~aep chassis is shorter
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than the others. The drive ie rear wheel. Tires are 600 x 25. There are
double wheels on the rear axles. The fuel tank under the driver.~a seat.
All deeps are fitted with gasoline engines.
(e) The mehicles possess good tractive power and are good hill climbers.
4. lluantitiv__Ou_trn3t?i
The plant is fully occupied and the three shifts normally produce a total of
about 30 vehicles patchy. When there is a shortage of materiala~ productioa
drops to about 7 vehicles per shift or about 20 vehicles in all.
5. Layout of the Plant:
The attached Sketch No, l shows the layout of the corks. The sketch is aelf-
explanatory.
6, ~,4ellaneous:
(a) At the ~ ime of observation about 70 to 100 completed vehicles irate narked
ing roads.
(b) Some of the ee s are roduced for the VoFb and others for export to
Western countries
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Road
LAYOUT OF VEB IFA PILAFNOMEN WORKS ZTTTAtt
Station Approach
Sketch No. 1
,bout
5 m.
Work
halls
Administrative
buildings
~-- about 40 m.- - ~- Road
? Station ?.., ~.- ~.
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Not to
Scale
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Diagram o! a Chassis
Sketch No. 2
Attachment devices '
for trailer
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