QUALITY OF EARTHMOVING EQUIPMENT USED ON DANUBE-BLACK SEA CANAL PROJECT; QUALITY OF EARTHMOVING WORK DONE BY THE RUMANIAN STATE RAILROADS; PURCHASE OF SPARE PARTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005000490006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 14, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFO ATOOfi_~ OR CD NO.
COUNTRY
Rumania
DATE DISTR. 14 JUN 50
SUBJECT
PLACE
C!lel ity of I i,.rtbmoving Equipment Used on Danube-
Black Sea Canal Project, Quality of D%rtl noving
Vork Done by the Rumnian State Railroads; Purchase
of Spare Parts in the United Kingdom
NO. OF PAGES
NO. OF ENCLS.
1
ACQUIRED
tkiSTED BELOW>
DATE OF
.INFO.
25X1A6a
use as the purer plant hast b itlld Sit
noeeniwaeeove excavation work
at the canal project is done by second-hand draglines, including P & li
equipment sold to Rumanian -customers before the war, Most of the earthmoving
is done by the manual labor of prisoners employed on the project,,
The Rumanian State Railroads (CF'R) handles its crn earilzrnovingo This work
in reportedly done efficiently.
SUPPLEMENT TO
25X1 X6 REPORT NO.
1. Excavators of. Czechoslovak manufacture in use on the l nut;e.AT3lack Sea Cam .
project are of such poor quality that after three Yaonths work they are
continuously under repair,
2 Excavators of Soviet manufacture that operate on electric power are not yet
in
4? Some spare pafts for Caterpillar tract-ore have been received from the United
Kingdoms but pumpaa injectors. cylinder heads and rolls could not be obtained
from 33ritish vendors,
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