STATE COMMISSION FOR VEHICLE APPRAISAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000400330002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 3, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
CONFIDFNTILL
This material contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing 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 prohibited
by law.
REPORT
SUBJECT State Commission for Vehicle Appraisal DATE DISTR.
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THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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COUNTRY Poland
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DATE DISTR. 23 Dec 1954
SUBJECT State Commission for Vehicle Appraisal NO. OF PAGES 2
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1. The State Commission for Vehicular Appraisal (Panstwowa Komis a Ooeny
Taboru) was officially established in March 1954. 25X1.
upon the recommendation of the State Commission for'Econoii q'- 25X1
(Panstwowa Komisja Planowania Gospodarczego). 25X1
the purpose of the commission was to see that aii a c,e
production in Poland was centrally approved for uniform and coor-
dinated production, based on the country's needs and production
potential. It was designed to preclude unnecessary. overlapping and
duplication.
2. The Commission had six civilian 25X1
members and two y members. ey were: Vice-Minister Juliusz
Burgin of the Ministry of Road and Air Transport (Ministerstwo
Transportu Drogowego i Lotniczego) who was the head of the Commission;
another Vice-Minister (name unknown)? probably from the Ministry of
Machine Industry (Ministerstwo Przemyslu Maszynowego); Colonel Underko,
(fnu) possibly Russian, from his accent and rumored travels to Russia,
from the Ministry of Defense; Major Stanislawski (fnu) of Department
13 which was subordinate to the General Staff; engineer Tebicki(or
Tepieki) (fnulprobably from the Ministry of Machine Industry, who
was secretary of the Commission; engineer Bohdan Nowakowr~,ki, the
director of the technical department in the Ministry of Road and
Air Transport; another engineer (lnu) from Nowakowski's department;
and one of the chief engineers in the Jelcz Automobile 25X1
Fact.bry in Jelcz Jeltsch-N 51-01, E 17-19).There were alternate
members selected for the Commission)
The first meeting was held in Warsaw during the last part of March
or early April 1954. Subsequent meetings were held every two weeks
until about late May or early June 1954 when weekly meetings werrp
called due to the heavy work-load.
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The Commission received plans and blue prints for the production of
various vehicles in Poland. It discussed and examined the proposed
production mostly on its technical merits but also considered possible
substitutes, practicability, costs, and the production potential
available. Many of these aspects had already been considered at
the very initiation of a production proposal and tentatively approved
by the. Ministry of Road and Air Transport and/or the Ministry of
Machine Industry but the Commission with its military members had
the final word of approval. Sub-commissions could be formed from
the outside to furth study a production from any partic-
ular angle. In fact any individual or organiza-.25X1
tiori could be called in or pract tally recruited to study and pass
judgement on any project. Technical experts and professors were
oooaaionally present at meetings. General overall plans or statis-
tics on production figures (past, present or future) were never
discussed or presented in the Commission.
5. The military representatives
in all ro osed production] 25X1
[only once during a discussion
a rear door was suggested for convertibility-to military use.
6. The Commission discussed and .approved the production of a Star 21
truck which was to be a modified version of the Star 20, the only
original and completely Polish vehicle produced. The Star 20 was
too fast for the rear axle assembly and drive shaft which
down too often The Star 21 is to bill.. roduoed in 1 . 25X1
it would be produced at Stax~chowice N 51-0 , E 21-0 where
the Star 20 is produced.
7. A 45 cubic centimeter motor bicycle was rejected by the Commission
but it approved the construction of a 125 cubic centimeter model
for further testing. A condition of this production was that the
motor had to be adaptable to all bicycles.
8. A~350 cubic centimeter motorcycle, to be called the M350, was
approved by the Commission to be produced, probably by the S. H. L.
motorcycle producers which is somewhere near Warsaw. The production
of this was begun before the creation the Commission since 25X1
30 fl* lle1.; were already, being ttested';
9. The model production of an eight-ton diesel truck was discussed
and approved. This truck was to have the first 25X1
engine in the world to be placed at a 45 degree angle. This
position wae.a compromise of benefits from the horizontal and
vertical positions but the
of the vertical position. 25X1
this truck would not be pro uce un some me a ou .
The model was to be produced by some exclusively experimental shop
near Warsaw.
10. The Commission also approved a 500 cubic centimeter motor for fire fi htln water um
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