WSK PSIE POLE AIRCRAFT COMPONENT FACTORY IN PSIE POLE

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 21, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 8, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is priohibited by law.
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SUBJECT WSK Psie Pole Aircraft Component Factory
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l. The WSK,Psie Pole Aircraft Component Factory produces various types
of pumps for FRESCO (MIQ,17) aircraft engines, as well as auxiliary
motors for bicycles. The plant employs about 7,000 wOrkera in two
and three shifts.
2. The following details concerning the plat-it-pb?dUction shops are
reported:
a. The PA shop manufactures pump components and employs about 400
workers (200 in each shift). The shop's equipment consists of:
(1) Six lathes, East German make, WMW, length: two meters.
(2) Four lathes, Czech make, TOS, length: two meters.
(3) Three lathes, Polish make, Wiepofama, length: 2.5 meters.
(4) Five turret lathes, East German make, WMT.
(5) Three turret lathes, Czech make, TOS.
(6) Four turret lathes, Soviet make.
(7) Four turret lathes, Polish make.
(8) Two grinding machines (straight surfaces), East German
make WMW.
? (9) Two grinding machines (curved surfaces), East German make, WMW.
(10) One milling machine East German make, WMW.
(11) Three milling machines, Czech make, TOS.
(12) Three milling machines (frezarka gwinciarka), East German make,
WMW.
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b. The PA-1 and PA-2 shops produce small parts for pumps, such as bolts,
nuts and small pinions, as well as spark plugs for CS-13 aircraft
called "Kukurydzniki". These shops employ about 130 workers in each
shift, and uSually operate in two and sometimes three, shifts. These
two shops work Duralumin parts only, whereas the PA shop produces both
steel and Duralumin parts. The equipment of the two shops consists
ol" the following:
(1) Six automatic lathes of prewar German manufacture, two. meters long,
(2) Three automatic lathes, of Czech make, 1.5 meters long.
(3) Ten automatic lathes, of Polish make, 1,.5 meters long.
(4) One automatic lathe for gear cutting, of East German make.
(5) Three centerless grinding machines (bezklowe) of East German
make, WW.
(6) Ten small bench lathes.
The PA-1 shop includes a fitting section with ten drilling machines
of various sizes of Polish make, five or six mall drilling machines and
one grinding machine of Soviet make.
d. The PN shop produces punp casings of Duralumin which are subsequently
tested for ttrength. The shop employs 150 workers in each of its two
shifts. Its equipment is as follows:
(1) Five large automatic lathes, of Czech make, TOS.
(2) Three large automatic lathes, of prear German manufacture.
(3) One turret lathe, of prewar German manufacture.
(4) Two turret lathes, of Soviet make.
(5) Two milling machines, of East German make,
(6) Two large drilling machines (wiertarki zeSpolowe),
d. The PN-1 shop, which produces small components, is similar to the
PA-1 and PA-2 shops. This shop operates in two Shifts of 150
workers each. It8 equipment consists of:
(1) Eight lathes, of Czech make, TOS, two meters long.
(2) Four lathes; of Soviet make; two meters long.
(3) Four lathes, of Polish make. two meters long.
(4) Four grinding machines fOr curved surface,of East-German make;
(5) Five grinding machines for straight surfaces, three of Polish make
and two of Soviet make.,
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(6) Two Przeciagarki of prewar German manufacture.
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Three die-cutting machines, two of Polish make and one of
prewar German manufacture.
(8) One turret lathe, of East German make, WMW.
(9) One turret lathe of Czech make, TOS.
(10) Ten small turret lathes, Polish make.
(11) Two milling machines.
(12) One polishing machine to which only the operator was permitted
access and which apparently served for the processing of Small
items. (No further details available.)
e. The PN-2 shop, established in 1955, produces pinions and other small
items. Its equipment consists of:
(1) Two lathes of Soviet make.
(2) Three turret lathes,
(3) Two centerless grinding machines of Soviet make.
(4) Two grinding machines of East German make, WMW
(5) Four gear milling cutters.
The shop includes a fitting section which is equipped with three
centerless drilling machines of Polish make. The shop operates in
two shifts of 60 men each.
f. The TN tool and instrument-making shop occupies three buildings as follows:
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Hall I: This section manufactures calipers, thread gauges and
other precision gauges (plytkiwzorcowe). Its equipment includes
ten lathes of various types, mainly WMW; about four grinding
machines for nuts; and three die-cutting machines (3).
Hall II: This section is engaged in the mass production of
instruments for metalworking machines. The equipment consists of
about 40 machines of various types..
Hall III: This section serves as a finishing shop for products
produced by Hall II. Its equipment consists of six drilling
machines and a number of grinding machines.
The PR-1 shop produces components of auxiliary motors for bicycles.
The shop operates in one shift and employs about 50 workers.
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In addition' to the-ihops listed above the factory has the followingt
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h. An assembly shop, which operates in two shifts.
i. A repair shop, which operates in one shift.
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A construction shop, which employs many Soviet experts.
k. An electrical shop.
1. A hardening shop.
m. A plating shop.
no An aluminum foundry.
3. The WSK Psip Pole plant indludes a vocational school known as the Engine
Building Technical School (Technikum Budowy Silnikow). The school is
organized into two divisionp, one with a four-year curriculum whose
graduates are awarded degrees of engineers, technicians, or constructors.
The other division has two-year courses and graduates are awarded
certificates of trained fitters, lathe or milling machine operators.
The curriculum of the four-year course includes aircraft engine construction
and military training. During the fourth year students are taught to fly
to enable them to test aircraft.. In the two-year course only metalworking
is taught.
4. The director of the plant's vocational school is Ignacy Berek. He is an
engineer
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