SKODA/DOUDLEVCE FACTORY

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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 24, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION FIE:PC)FIT CD NO. 50X1
DATE DISTR. &If Dec 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
COUNTRY Czechoslovalda
SUBJECT Skoda/Dbudlevce Factory
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE
ACQUIRED BY SOURCE
DATE OF INFORMATION
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTINS THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITES STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF EEEEE IS, SECTIONS 799
AND 794, OF TNE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR NEVE.
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO DR RECEIPT MY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
P RON I ? I TE D ST LAW. THE REPNSEUETION OF THIS TONS II P Do I SITED.
NO. OF ENCLS. 3
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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Products and Production
1. Although the old Skodalboudlevce factory formerly manufactured large electric motors,
generators and transformerS0'at present (October 1951) these products are manufactured
exclusively in the new tGigantt building,
The old factory no (October 1951) manUfactureS mainly switchgear as well as small electric
motor's .(of the Usual normal type and'design) and instruments, such as voltheters0 ammeters,
wattmeters and recording instruments.
3. Switchgear is manufactured in a very large building which was formerly the shop and assembly
area for turbogenerators. Switchgear is of the outdoor and indoor type. They-are all 50X1
compressed air operated and appear to be copies of German and Swiss switchgear, although the
design iq about twenty years old and is Obsolete. Indoor sizes arilf6001200 and 2000 amperes
(middle tcnsion'voltage is 100000 volts). Interrupting capacity tswitch ?fig
is only 400 EVA, not suited to demands of up-to-date power statioiai;--Thi-CidChs are making
great effort to obtain designs for switchgear with an interrupting capacity of 600-800 MVA.
Outdoor type switchgear are similar to the German firm Siemens, which collaborated closely
with Czech firms during World War II. Production of the switchgear plant is about 800-1000
units yearly.
It. The new factory (Gigant) will manufacture only electric motors and generators of large
output and transformers above 5000 KVA capacity. 'Average capacity of Gigant plant per day
is 10,000 KVA0 including all electrical equipment.
5. Although three shifts were planned at Gigant, only one shift was working in October 1951 with
only apprmimately 40% of personnel. There is a heavy shortage of copper and other construc-
tion metals which will prevent the achievement of scheduled annual output. This shortage
appears to be of long duration. However?-because other electrical equipment factories are
overloaded, it appears that the reason that Gigant is not in full operation is due to other
than the shortage of copper.
6. At Gigant Oiesel locomotives are assembled for USSR in one third of the building separated
by a wall. This seels to be a permanent activity although it has nothing to do with electric
equipment production.
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it has been reported that there is bridge construction at Gigant in a
50X1 portion of the factory, that it is very unlikely that bridges would be constructed
in a new building as modern and expensive as this one, It is possible that the untrained
observer might mistake the fabrication of a bridge with the locomotive frame during its
initial stage of production,
Building.s and Equipment
The old factory was erected after World War II.
9. A new factory named Gigant was erected between 1949 and 1951 to the'west of the complex.
There are new buildings under construction near the Gigant building. 50X1
10. These new buildings under construction in October 1951 will probably house the production of
that electrical equipment necess2ry for a complete power station which is not being produced
now, for? example, steam turbines, it has been reported that
radar equipment is to be manufactured in these new buildings, it is unlikely that
radar equipment will be produced here because of the dissimilar nature of the present 50x1
production.
11. The main factory building is a single building (200 meters long and 180 meters wide). It has
six aisles each 30 meters wide and'not separated by. walls. The Diesel locomotive assembly
takes up one-third of the building. Six to eight cranes (25-75 ton capacity) run on two
tracks in each aisle. The plant is the most modern in the Satellites. It is a steel
constructed building 'With side walls of artificial panels. No bricks have been used in
building construction. The equipment is excellent with large assembly areas. The entire
building is air-conditioned. There are containers for scrap and all scrap and raw material
is transported by small cranes*
12. There are smaller buildings in the vicinity, such as the tool shop, which is well-equipped*
Th'; cranes and the tool machinery have various gay colors in order to raise the morale 56)0
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an underground trolley (subway) has been reported to exist between the
old buildings and the Gigantbuilding. :
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140 Nomheast of the Gigant there is a main railroad where many workers were building two or
three unOerpasses and leveling the ground for new buildings about the size of Gigant,
liaaluaLaugazmant and Test=
5 Research and development work is done at this factory on equipment to handle the new
200,000 volt high-tension line between Moravia, Slovakia and Hungary. The new high-tension
testing station, which is located near Prague, will probably begin operations this year (1953)
No high-tension testing is dons at Skoda/Doudlevce.
16. There are deep underground testing rooms for the dynamic tests of the generators. Another
testing station is about 200 meters distant from the main building which tests them with a
horizontal wheel*
Emplavment.
17. There were approximately four to five thousand employees in all buildings. However, there
was a general shortage of labor.
18. The labor force was generally lazy.
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Enclosure (A
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Diagram of the
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ENCLOSURE (B) SECRET
DIAGRAM OF THE 1GIGANT' DOUDLEVCE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA
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DIAGRAM OF THE IGIGANT', DOUDLEVCE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA
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