AUTOMOBILE PLANT AT MINSK

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• Publication Date: February 4, 1952
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CEARRIEEME1416ER' 16TENCY REPORT NO.
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SUBJECT Automobile Plant at Minsk
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. The rinsk (530504N/270352E) automobile plant was built according to the designs
of the Oiproredmash. Part of the installations came from Germany, possible
from the Opel Plant in Germany. Part of the machinery is of American orioin.
Of the plant is Russian machines, the i:rasny Proletari Plant in Tloscom supplied
lathes and turret lathes, a Gorki plant supplied milling machines, the Kirov
Plant in Tiflis delivered special lathes, a Kharkov plant supplied special
drilling machines, and the Kalibr Plant in roscow delivered measuring instru-
ments. its.
2. The plant had its min power station. Outside power was supplied from rink
during breakdown periods of the plant station. A connection was also planned
with the power plant under construction about one kilometer west of the auto-
mobile plant.
3p During the time of observation the Minsk plant manufactured nnt only finishee
motor vehicles but also all parts for these vehicles except engines, fittinge?
radiators, storage batteries and tire:. Mngine blocks were allegedly also
mangfactured after the new foundry was put into operation. The plant's monthly
production of trailers was 300 during April and May 1949. The indications on
the plantss truck output vary considerably. The monthly production may have
been 200 units at the end of 1949.and probably increased in 1950.
4. The trailers produced by the Mink plant were two-axle truck trailers, whose
els'ectrically melded frames were equipped with turntables of structural steel (Dreh-
schemel. The flooring, the side malls and the front malls of the trailers
more wooden. Since around August 1948 the plant had produced 7-ton dump trucks
of type rA3-200. The Minsk plant also manufactured 5-ton dump trucks of type
VAS-205, This two-axle truck with double rear wheels had a two-cycle Diesel
engine, four cylinders, two 12-volt batteries, five gear shifts, one oil pres-
sure tipping installation, and a cable winch in front. The floor of the truck us
trailer was 4 x 2.20 meters and the truck had three seats in the driver's cabin.
The side and the front walls were made of electrically welded steel plates.
The naximum speed VAS 60 in per hour and the fuel consumption was 35 liters per
100 km The trucks were delivered with or without tarpaulin covers.
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5. The plant also produced truck tractors of type rAS-20A with somiOtrailers
of type rAs-5201. This tractor could cover 200 km without refilling its tank,
and its maximum speed, when trailers were attached, was 35 km per hour on a level
highway. The turning radius of the tractor is 8.5 meters. The total weight of
the tractor was 22 tons, including the 12 tone load which it could carry. It was
5,77 meters long and 2,615 meters wide, Its wheel base was 3.8 meters, and
the distance between its wheels was 1.95 meters. The tractor was a two-axle
vehicle with a rear wheel drive and a 110 UP Diesel engine. The 4 rear wheels
and the 2 front wheels had 12 x 20 inch tires with IS atmoopheric pressure.
The hydraulic brake system of the tractor included an instrument for controlling
the wheel brakes of the semi-trailer. Me operation of the drum-type handbrake
was transmitted on the shaft of the gear casingb The coupling supported the
load of the front part of: the semi-trailer and simultaeously served for secure
attachment. Coupling was done automatically while decoupling was done by hand.
The trailer was 6.48 meters long and 2.615 meters wide. The height of its use-
able loading: area was 1.48 meters, its bed was 14,85 square meters, its total
interior capacity was 14.85 cubic meters
The Unsk automobile plant also produced compressors and perforated steel land-
ing mats. These mats, which were sprayed with green paint, were about 1.2 meters
long and 50 cm wide. There were two long grooves on each of the mat& long
sides, and the mats were equipped with hooks for connecting them to one anothor.
The mats uz.,re shipped in piles of 25 pieces. The plant was supplied with the
-"following ram materials:
Steel ingots.
Round and bar iron, about ton 60-ton carloads monthly.
Cray cast iron in bars, four 60-ton carloads monthly.
Steel and iron plates, tinned sheet Oren.
About 80 engines a week.
About 2,500 rubber tires a month.
About 2,500 automobile wheel rims a month.
Pall bearing shipments from roscow.
[etorage batteries, radiators, fittings, and steering wheels.
Comoent. See Annex 1 for list of sources.
IiiineYTE: See Annex 2 for list of the plantss installations and a
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sketch map, compiled from information supplied by the various sources.
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1. Main production workshop?
a.- Shop producing tools, mechanical equipment and spare parts for the plantss
machinery; the reconstruction of the workshop was probably completed by
summer 1949.
b. Repair shop for machines.
c. Tool depot.
d. Provisional trailer assembly shop which also houses a galvanizing instd6
lation$ a hardening shop, and a gear construction department. This work-
shop has following machinery:
For the construction of trailers:
1 assembly line.
0 welding stations.
7 Fittler turret lathes.
6 lathes of various sizes.
1 mechanical hack saw.
1 press of 8 tons.
4 drilling machines.
2 grindstones.
4 gear cutting machines.
1 axle grinding machine.
1 bolt grinding machine.
For the construction of compressors: special grinding machines
for crankshafte.
drilling machines.
milling machines
4 test stands.
lathes of various sizes.
thrrot lathes,
6 autonatic machines,
6 horizontal drilling machiles.
circular grind:ng machines.
1 planer.
For the construction of gears:
12 multiple purpose automatic
machines.
14 bevel gear milling machines,
4 gear grinding machines.
2 planers.
about 20 lathes of various sizes,
8 drilling rachines.
0 mandrel lathes (chucking reamere).
4 special lathes for simultaneous-
tooling oi 8 to 10 steels.
6 vertical boring and turning
lathes,
1 aseembly stand for roar axles,
1 test stand.
This shop produced front and rear axles, central brakes (sic) and uni-
versal joints (Kardan). It also constructed car bodies, assembled
trailers on an assembly line, and, probably since early 1949$ con-
structed chassis. The frames after being welded together came on the
assembly line where springs and heels were mounted, as were two axles,
each two meters long and about 6 cm thick. Also on the assembly line,
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the frames were sprayed, and the trailer coupling was fitted.
After leaving the assembly line the car body was mounted.
e. Offices messhall building and living quarters.
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f. rechanical department, which was equipped with lathes, 3 six-spindle
automatic machines of Russian make, 5 index fully automatic machines
of German make, 2 drilling machines, 2 circular grinding machines, and
dies. The shop produced front and rear axles. The production of
engine blocks was scheduled after the building of the mechanical depart-
ment had been connected with the trailer assembly shop (item 1 q).
go Trailer assembly shop. The building had notbeen completed by September
1949. The shop had about 50 machines, most of which were lathes, and
it produced axles for trailers and painted automobiles. It was scheduled
to produce chassis parts.
ho Pressing and punching shop, thich had the following equipment:
1 traveling crab with an 11 ton carrying capacity.
1 hot air blowing installation.
12 welding stations.
1 spray-painting and varnishing sh.op.
presses, partly of German make:
1 hydraulic press of about 100 tons;
4 presses of 500, 450, 300 and 250 tons respectively; part of these
pneumatic nresses were still being set up at the beginning of
January 1949;
I die press of 200 tons .
10 spot-welding apparatuses, punches.
1 Spanish punch, about SO tons.
plate shears,
2eplate bending machines.
drilling machines.
turret lathes including about 15 lathes with a turning length between
1 and 1.5 eeters and a height of centers between 20 and 80 cm. The
lathes are of Polish, Italian and Gorman make.
1 spring machine.
about 10 grindstones and grinding rollers0
This shop produced all deep-drawn, punched, pressed and perforated
parts for truck and trailer construction; it also did pressing work
on fenders, radiators, axles and drive shafts.
i. Kitchen and mess hall.
k. Final assembly shop. The conveyor belt of the assembly line was com-
pleted. It was about 35 meters lone. The workshop itself was completed
in February 19490 The shop had the following equipments
Lathes n2 various sizes, parly of German make.
1 autogenous welding shop.
1 traveling crane0
drilling machines.
planing machines.
turret lathes.
vertical boring and turning machines.
grinding machines.
6 multiple purpose automatic machines.
4 test stands.
3 electric welding stations.
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2. New forge, which was probably completed during 1949. In 1949 the
frame of a 13-meter-high runway for a crane was completed. Also
numerous large hammer bases for 1,000 kg hammer mere completed.
The department was said to have a high-frequency installation for
heating metals. The shop produced axles and crankshafts and all
her forgings.
3. New foundry. By the end of 1949 this department had apparently been
completed and was in operation except for workshop b. The foundry
department had following installations:
a. Gray-iron foundry. Two founding furnaces were planned for both
the eastern and western side of the workshop. The construction
of these funnacee was already under way, and they were scheduled
to be completed by November 1949. A railroad track ran through
workshop building a. Along this track were coke, lime and ore
bunkers. These concrete bunkers were between two and eight
meters above ground, and some of them were up to five meters deep.
A 25-meter wide crane with 50 ton carrying capacity was said to serve
for charging the smelting furnaces. It was set up at a height of
13 meters. This gray iron foundry produced engine blocks.
b. Steel foundry, which was not yet completed, but which was to pro-
duce steel castings.
c, Core-making shop and roldine shop, which had 30 molding machines,
conveyor belts, silo for molding sand, and molding -and dressing
machiner. Productirn included cores for all foundry shoes.
d. FoUndry producin; tempered steel (Tompergusehalle);
e. Foundry cleaning shop. Tho workshop buildings a, b, c, e, e, were
connected by underground conduits for conveyor belts carrying small
parts and molding sand for cores. The convoying installation was
made of steel and weighs 100 tons.
woodworking department (DOZ), which had about 40 machines, circular
saws, 4 to 5 frame saws, planing benches and other woodworking machines.
The machines are operated electrically. In this shop drivers cabins,
trailer superstructures and platform bodies are constructed.
5. Power station, which had the following equipment:,
1 British-made and 2 Borsig furnaces. A third Borsig furnace
was set up at the end of 1948. The furnaces were fueled in
part with coal fed by a conveyor belt and in part with oil.
5 to 7 boilers.
2 British-made turbines of 10,000 kws each.
1 '.'ritish and 1 German power generating unit with a Diesel engine
of German make,
6. Factory producing all bicycle parts. This shop had the following equipment:
.!achinery dismantled in the Drennabor Plant in Brandenbu.e-Navel
10 to 15 punching machines
2 spoke mass-producing machines, The machine had an output of
30,000 spokes in one C-hour shift,
1 1:latitne tool.
1 machine for mass-producton of rcraws.
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Experimental department for the development of
Laboratory.
Technical designing department.
Management and plant administration.
Guardhouse at the main gate.
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new motor vehicles.
12. Telephone switchboard center. The telephone equipment ic German
reparation material.
13 fire department.
14. Kitchen.
15. :Mop for making sanitation equipment (Sanitner?techn. Abteilung
16. Shop for making sanitation equipment
17. Zlectrotechnical department.
18. Small foundry, which was still under construction in 'aar 1949. This
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1 Cupola furnace.
steel furnaces: 1 electrical steel furnace. 3 small coal?fueled furnaces,
2 aluminum furnaces each with an inside diameter of about 1.5 meters
and an inside height of about I meter.
1 rod brass furnace with an inside diameter of about 1 meter and an
inside height of about 1 meter.
1 traveling crab
4 machines for shakira molds (Formschuettelmaschino)
2 grindstones
1 sand kneading machine
1 core?making shop with 3 drying kilns
casting ladles
cutting machines
pneumatic hammers
This shop handled all castings for the automobile production in addition
to all machine castings for building machines and work for the overhauling
workshops.
19. Assembly department. Since early in 1946 this department has had a storage
room for boxes, empty bottles, ane sulphuric acid for batteries.
20. 6torehouse.
21. Foundry cleanina shop, having a sandblast unit, a pneumatic chisel, and
4 grindstones.
22. Pattern?makinn shop (rodelltischleroi).
23. Garage.
24. .:.00d drying chamber. A runway of a crane leads into the chamber.
25. Buildin- yard ("Dauhof).
26. Loading ramp.
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27. Gasoline and Diesel fuel dump.
28. Projected bus line.
29. Building for housing the guard personnel.
30/30a.Depot for storing machine tools.
31. Cooling water basin.
32. Fire pond.
33. Old forge, producing types of forgings for automobile production. This
shop has the following equipment:
Movable crane.
L steam hammers, 3 of American make, 1 of Gorman make,
annealing furnaces, about 3 meters hir"1? covering about
4 x 3 meters.
2 annealing furnaces, about 1.5 meters high, covering about
2 x 3 meters.
1 straightening Shop for chassis,
1 hack saw.
2 electric welding stations.
1 punch.
1 cutting machine.
1 bending machine.
1 bending machine for ohaust pipes.
1 bending machine for trailer spars.
1 rotating flange bending machine, (Drehkranzbiegemasehine.)
34. "Department for preparatory tooling" (Vorbereitungs Lbteilung), which
was not yet completed in beptember 1949. Construction mork was probably
finished in November 1949. In the main part of the building mere two
runways for cranes and in the annex one runway 12 meters high. In front
of the workshop was a crane runway for unloading the material from the
railroad cars. This section was assigned the job of cutting into sections
and rouL-h-cutting of rolled materials; and preliminary cutting of plates
for the forges and rechanical workshops.
Boilerhouse; which was complated about 7ay 1949. This shop had 3 new
horizontal boilers, 2 n in diameter, 1.5 meters high, 8 meters long.
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