1.SOVIET-CZECHOSLOVAK TRADE 2. LOCOMOTIVE PRODUCTION,CKD SOKOLOVO

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• Publication Date: November 16, 1951
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1. Soviet?Czechoslovak Trade
2. Locomotive Production, MD Sokolov?
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Trade between Czochoolovakia and the UEZR. fella into two main --cateepeies.T ie
first category covers the broad trade relationships between the two countries
and involves the widest range of coneumer and producer goods., which represents
an ever increasing proportion of the total Czechoslovak foreign trade, and which
is conducted within the framevork of the ilateral long-torn camerael
agreement between the two countries. The second category includes direct
trade outside the treaty framevork in accord with independent agreements and
contracts and covers special areas of production in Czechoslovakia of more
direct interest to the Soviets and is usually marked by the separation of a
mhole plant or a section thereof to work excluskmayfor this interest.
Mention need be made hamonlv of the fact that Czechoslovak trade agreements
with other countries of the Soviet sphere may also be considered to benefit
the TeSR to a high degree.
2. It is to industries belonging to this soconi category that special Russian
technical missions or individual experts are assigned. Thum, heavy industry
in general and war industry in particular frequently are organized under the
Joint control of the Oinistry of National Defense and the USSR. In this
fashion a special department of the Skoda Works? Pilsen (N50/104) has been
organized, and the new mammoth Skoda branch in DoudIovce (N5004) near Pilsen
has been planned entirely as a special department. Other plbnts which
are similarly organized are Zbrovka-Strakonice (N50A49), Zbrojovka-Brno
(P50/040), CKD Stalineyad-Sokolovo (N51/1558), Rudy Letov? Avia, Prague
(P50,78), the United Steel Works, the Steel Works at Trine? (Q50/087)
andAqtkevice (P50/058), the 4xplOsia factory at Semtin (050/194), and
Dynemit-Nobel in Bratislava (P49/109).
3. In addition to the exports to the USSR by the plants mentioned above,
increasing emphasis is being placed on armaments and war materiel exports,
e.g. plates of special steel, taWkenginesileuerytmeeks? military vehicles,
a nau type of heavy duty locomotive produced accorang to Soviet specifications
but improved upon in Czechoslovakia, heavy artillery, machine guns, AT guns,
etc. Other types of goods upon which the USSR places emphasis are special
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machine tools, measuring devices and machinery, buses, mining machinery and
airplane engines. Besides the partial control exercisedlover many factories
the USSR has exclusive control over the uranium mines at Jachymov L 25X1 C
as well as over the new mines in SlaVkov near Karlovy Vary
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4. At the CD factory in SOkolovo, locomotives for the USSR are manufhotured.
The design calls for a double-gauge truck system allowing use on both standard-
and broad-gauge rails. The locomotives are produced in series of 16 or 32
pieces. For the older, proved types, the time required to produce a series
of sixteen is about two months, employing two and one-half shifts in the plant
per day. Six months are required to produce 32 units of the new and much
larger typos recently put on the production line. Special workers are assigned
to this job. The first locomotives of the new series required over a month of
testing and running in because inaccurate piston tolerances caused considerable
difficulties. The new locomotives reportedly have a pull factor of three times
that of the normal freight locomotive and are capable of Speeds of 120 kms0
per hour at maximum load. Otherwise, they attain a speed of 160 kma1 per hour.
In addition to locomotives for the USSR, CKG.Sokolovo also produces tank parts,
especially tractor belts and links.
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