PRODUCTION OF STORAGE BATTERIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000200050014-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 4, 2011
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: May 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT production of Storage Batteries
IN INFONNATION A CTIN? 1*9 NATIONAL NS
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO ON RECEIPT ST AN 11NAUTM0111 [[0 -[NSON 11
THIS Is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
DATE DI STR.3/YI Ay 1954
NO. OF PAGES 2
NO. OF ENCLS.
SUPP. TO
REPORT NO.
1, The only factory producing storage batteries in Rufsania is Lcumulatorul, Calea
$orobantilor 1?5, Bucharest.- The total working force is six hundred persons,
including clerieal, teehnical,._and laboring personnel. The machinery in the
factory is old, dating from ?e~t orrldtWa IIII. and Their products supply Rumanian civil,
man and military at ,
tons
of about faat**,ry
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during the Pl, sing this
2. To complete its less quota
percent. Production
ten ntot fifteen about
p! lead, , with a ~8 proces
includes the following types:
a. "Auto-aocmAulators," in the normal form of six and twelve volts.
be 2k-volt batteries for Diesel motors (two 12-volt batteries coupled together).
c. Z-0-50 batteries for lighting railway cars d. Batteries for small mining locomotivem, 180 ampere-hours.
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e. Batteries for small electric cars, Type NY-90 -- 120 ampere-hours.
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f. Zmargency batteries, for lighting factories in time of need.
These batteries have lead plates, constructed either as barred plates (aittteerpla ten
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plates.
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plates with a large superficial area (Oberflaehplattenj, or greased MR
A!' Mr LAST P POR St3BJtCT at AREA CODES
This report is for the use within the USA of the Intelligence components of the Departments of Agencies indicated above. It is not to be transmitted evotsoNs
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The factory is tinder the control of the Ministry for Electric Energy (Bucharest,
Boulevard General Magheru). The attached official of the Ministry is-Karl
hhilippr a convinced Coss is1, who cue to Rumania from Prance. The general
director is a can named Solids, likewise a convinced Ces aspist. Sends and
Direeter,14sur Gesa (a Hungarian) create a regime of_teiror in the factory.
5. Liaison men for the factory, with the Ministry of Electric Energy are Gaza himself;
the chief.bookkseper. Rabinovios; and a certain Enick (both_the latter being
foreigners). Technical adviser to the works is Irwin Ltmisch, who has been a
specialist-h" for a long time.
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