POLISH CONSTRUCTION AGENCIES AND EQUIPMENT

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2010
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• Publication Date: November 14, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPOR
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Seca. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
NF-1 D_N_T I A-L
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Polish Construction Agencies
and Equipment
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the 25-hp tractor will be mass-produced at URSUS,
this will be a temporary production lasting through 1959 onlye
s 25-hp tractor is still considered to be too heavy for use on small privately
oiaid farms. By 1959 or early 1960, the Polish engineers should have a smaller
tractor ready for mass production which would be better for the private farmers.
Poland nill not purchase a license from
abroad for any new designs for tractors to be produced in Poland in the future.
On the other hand, she will not us a complete design
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In h olish engineers realized that the 25-hp UR8U8 was o0
a new design was being develops '
e esac horsepower was unknownt
would be be ween seven and eight hp. it would be
ready for mass production by late 1959 or early . ? rao or 11 undoubtedly
be produced at the URSUS factory but the attachments will be a cooperative production
from several factories (factories unknown).
Poland would not purchase a design from
abroad for two reasons; the Soviet non would never approve of such a move, and
more important, the Poles had developed their own tractor industry before WW II
and it would be too humiliating for them to seek a.workable design from abroad.
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Ithe reinforced Star. chassis will be employed.
The plan for production was as follows: The original four-ton Star trucks are
being produced at the factory at STARACHOWICE (N51-04, E21-04)(UTM EB-0456) and
the new reinforced Star will be produced there also and will slowly replace the
four-ton productions which will be taken over gradually by the factory at LUBLIN.
The new seven-ton trucks will be similar to the Czech seven-ton Tatra.
when an enterprise bought a Polish produced shovel, it had to pay
about 700,000 zlotys but when it bought one from Russia it had to pay only
100,000 zlotys. It was always cheaper to buy this equipment from Russiap
Czechoslovakia than to buy domestically produced construction equipment,
price was never a consideration in the purchase of such
equipment from other Bloc countries. Most often the bills were paid in goods
exchange or in currency long after the equipment had arrived. In the latter
case, there were always discussions n erning the rate of exchange between zlotys
and rubles for example. 11often there were sizable variances 25X1
from year t ear in such rates of exchange ex t figures unkn wn
the Soviets often used this rate of exchange to apply pressure or show
favoritism to other Bloc governments.
Ithe present output at the factory at KLODZKO
(N50-26, E16-40)(UTM XR-1788) at about 20 li ht cranes monthly (these cranes are
made of tubing which reduces their wei ht . it could be expanded
to about 30 to 40 monthly. the output at the Warynski factory in
WARSAW at about 40 yearly and stated that it could be expanded to 80 yearly if
the need arose. it was unlikely that the production of cranes
would be expanded because the present production was considered sufficient.
This factory Fabr ka Maszyn Budowlanych - Wroclaw) em to s about
400 workers. it was producing road rollers. 25X1
its main production was brick machines resses which were used not only
for red bricks but for cement bricks. if it was producing
road rollers, it was just a side production.
This, plant (Baza Remontowo-Produkeyjna) employs about 300
workers. out 50% of the planta.s capacity was for repair
of cranes o a ypes and Z e other 50% was for the production of special
equipment (cranes, derribks, compressors) and the production of spate parts for
this equipment. When a special type of crane is needed for a specific construe
tion project, Mostostal has it made in this plant (derricks mast cranes. ver
heavy tower cranes, very heavy portal cranes, etc.) 25X1
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Figure I (Pinpoint Location of the
Warynaki Factory)
Map Refs
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84
Czyste
Legends
to Factory
location
Figume !I (.3-1-stab -f the Two-es-tiam --d Mactery- Layout
Legend:
Brick walla 25 m high (around
entire area)
2. Main Factory building (See Ann
3. Storage building
4- Workshop
5- Ulica Towarowa
Ulica Srebrna
Aleje Jerozolimakie
8. Ulica Kolejowa
9. Main gate
10. Ulica Grojecka
of Wariski Factory) I
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SKETCH OF THE MAIN FACTORY BUILDING (JARYISKI FACTORY)
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10" a
30 a
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Map Refs Poland 1:1009000
Gitys WOLOMIN
Figure I
Pinpoint Location of the Repair Shops of
Construction Equipment in WARSAW
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Q) 9'5
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to Main factory building (see Annex D)
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Building under construction
3-
Spare
Parts storage building
4o
Office
and social building
5o Wire fence
6. Brick wall 2fr m high
7- Main gate
80 Open storage area for equipment and vehicli
1. Factory location
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Figure II of e cation and Factory (Sketch Layout of the
Repairf Construction Equipment in WARSAW)
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SKETCH OF THE MAIN FACTORY BUILDING (REPAIR SHOPS
CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT IN WARSAW)
80 m
4m
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