1. THE 23 AUGUST FACTORY 2. THE UZINELE DE TUBURI REPUBLICA FACTORY 3. THE 6 MARCH FACTORY

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• Publication Date: April 10, 1952
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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
COUNTRY Rumania
5U BJECT 1. The 23 August Factory
2. The Uzinele de Tuburi Republica-Factory
3. The 6 March Factory
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according to necessity, from the Sai.
b. The Nicolae Malaxa Tohanul Vechiu, Orasul Stalin (Brasov), is now
known as the 6 March Factory and produces munitions at the rate of
up to 4,000 tons a month.,
2. The total production of the 23 August Factory is at present about 30,000
tons of steel and finished products per annum, valued at about T120 million
sterling, but the steel production of the factory is being continually
developed for outside uses in Rumania, and if the new furnace is success-
fully installed production will very greatly increase.
3. The sources of supply of the foundry are the blast furnaces at Hunedoara 50X1-HUM
and Resita and, for certain minerals (for example, manganese, cobalt,
tungsten) the USSR. Scrap iron is delivered from various parts of Rumania
and Bulgaria Pig iron is sometimes imported,
4. The 23 August foundry at present includes: one Sieme>4s-Martin furnace,
six tons charge; one Siemens-Martin furnace, six tons charge, constructed 50X1-HUM
on a base designed for a 24-ton furnace; one Siemens-Martin furnace, 24
tons charge, to be completed during 1952; one old double electric furnace,
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1. The former Malaxa group of factories in Rumania have been renamed:
a. The Nicolae Malaxa Fabrica de Locomotive, Statia Titan, Bucharest,
is now known as the 23 August Factory and produces freight cars,
boilers, diesel engines, rail cars, air brakes, pumps and a variety
of other items which at the moment are chiefly for the petroleum
and cement industries. There is also a category of special items for
the Armed Forces Ministry. The total production is 2,500-3,000 tons
a month.
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1.8 tons charge in each part; one furnac?, delivered in
1951, of single type, which takes a tree ton c arge; two rotating fur-
naces for cast iron; a non-ferrous metal rotating furnace, maximum capa-
city three tons per month. This and smaller furnaces for non-ferrous
alloys normally produce about five tons per month, which covers the in-
ternal requirements of the factory.
The chief difficulties encountered in the work of the foundry are as
followso
a. The poor material used in the insulation of electric equipment de-
teriorates, partly owing to the heat, and this results in frequent
short-circuits and stoppages in. the work of the overhead cranes.
b. The machine which regenerates and. cleans the sand for the molds, con-
structed in 1949-1950, was still not functioning by the end of 1951
and the work was carried out manually by 200 workmen.
The bad quality of refractory material and electrodes for electric
I furnaces red-ace their capacity.
d. Absenteeism (30-40 men for heavy and unpleasant work such as that
mentioned in above) and frequent: changes in personnel.
6. Production of steam locomotives ceased in March 1951 and the main items
of production are now as follows:
a. Fifty-ton broad-gauge covered railroad freight cars of Soviet type,
mounted on two four-wheel bogies, about 100 a month. The freight
cars are for export to the USSR and have been produced continuously
for many years. Rumanian comiritinents for these freight cars under
Soviet reparations demands have already been completed, and as the
present commitments in respect to Soviet-Rumanian Economic, Convention
orders., of about 2,000 freight cars, are terminated, the works are
beginning production of various normal-gauge Rumanian type 25-ton
freight cars. It is estimated that the last Soviet type freight car
will be finished in 1954-55 while the production of normal type freight
cars is just beginning.
b. During 1951, the production of various type of boilers was heavily
increased. The first request from the USSR (partly under the repara-
tions demands and partly under the Economic Convention) was for 60
Suhoff-type boilers per annum, but orders are being received for other
types of boilers and for tubular constructions; for example, those
used as rotating furnaces in cement works. It is difficult to assess
total production, but about 600 men formerly used in making locomo-
tives are now employed on these different kinds of production. The
rollers which have been installed for the handling of the boiler 50X1-HUM
plates take plates of six, eight and twelve mm. thickness and have a
maximum width of four meters. the recent enlarge-
ment of this part of the works and the installation of new machinery
are for the ultimate purpose of handling armored plate.
About 24 mobile diesel engines of 240 h.p. are produced per year. The
pro duc -off a" :-argue ai car of 560 h, p two motors ~s now~ein
studied, also that of a new diesel electric locomotive 50X1-HUM
modified by the Soviets, which has a 3,000 h.p. engine. The 50X1-HUM
blueprints were expected to arrive from the US,ST~ nt the end of 1951
and production could begin towards the end of 1952. A.iifficulty will
be the provision of the electric motors, et cetera, by the Dinamo
works.
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The 240 h.p. engine has also been adapted and converted to 190 h.p.
output for the oil industry. This 190 h.p. engine is now being series-
-produced. It 1 s a high speed engine suitable for drilling and other
development work and is mounted either on a sleigh or on a truck. The
sleigh, complete with engine, weighs about three tons. The production
of these engines is being pushed and according to plan should reach
240 units per year in 1953. Small numbers of 120 h.p. engines are
also produced by the.works for the Rumanian railways. There is
difficulty, however, in completing their assembly, owing to the fre-
quent requisitioning of finished parts for making repairs. There is
no export of rail cars to the USSR because of the difficulty of send-
ing repair teams, without which the rail cars have a very short life.
e. Duplex pumps weigh four tons each and are intended for use in the oil
industry, particularly in the draining of slush (oil and water). Pro-
duction is about six a month, all intended for the USSR.
f. About 130 sets a month of Westinghouse Knorr brakes (including the
Matrusoff type brakes) are produced.
g. A new type of Westinghouse brake is being used to large (80 ton) -flat
cars, intended for fast traffic.-.During 1951, prders were received
for 40 sets of these brakes for despatch to the rolling stock factory
in Arad. these large fiat cars are probably in-
tended for tank transport.
h. The tooling department of the factory is being specially developed so
as to produce machine tools for the 6 March and other factories, as
well as for the 23 August Factory itself. no lee- 50X1-HUM
tronic devices are used in t toolin department, ere was a possi-
bility of obtaining machines based on electronic 50X1-HUM
principles, but it was decided on the is o Soviet advice not to
use them.
. In general, the plan is to develop the 23 August Factory, together with
those at Resita, Hunedoara, Progresu and Braila, to build all heavy plant
and spare parts required in Rumania. Some specially designed machines
will still be delivered from Hungary and a few specialized items from
Czechoslovakia This tendency to become independent in 50X1-HUM
heavy industry is handicapped in many cases by the fact that the blue-
prints supplied from the USSR arenot adequate and have to be considerably
modified by Rumanian engineers. In other cases the Rumanians, through lack
of experience, have not succeeded in adapting for new conditions old blue-
prints of pre-war German or other foreign machines. For example, the
attempt to adapt the plans of the old (1936-38) Stiefel Schloeman tube
rolling mills for the construction of a new fourteen inch mill is still
meeting with difficulties, although work was begun in 1949.
8. The tube mills of the Uzinele de Tuburi Republica Factory have been modi-
fied as follows:
a. The former twelve inch tube mill was dismantled in 1943 by the Ru-
manians and taken away by the Russians in 1947-48. It is believed to
have been re-erected near Kiev.
b. The six inch tube mill has been modified to produce eight inch tubes.
c. A new three inch tube mill was constructed and installed during 1950-51.
It is probably already in production.
d. A new twelve to fourteen inch tube mill is in course of construction
and should be ready for production by 1953-54. It may be adapted to
produce sixteen inch tubes.
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9. The production of these mills is as follows:
a. The old plant (up to eight inch tubes) produces regularly from 2,700
to 2,800 tons a month. This figure varies and can temporarily reach
as much as 4,000 tons a month according to the caliber of the tube
produced.
b. The three inch mill, when in full production, should produce between
700 and 1,000 tors per month.
c. The large mill should produce between 2,500 and 3,000 tons per month.
Thus the total production of the factory, When all three mills are in full
production in 195!.w will be about 6,000-79000 tons a month. This is the
figure foreseen. in the Five Year Plan.
10. Raw material for the mills comes from two main sources:
a. The 23 August Factory delivers about 1,000 tons of steel a month.
Under the Five Year Plan this contribution will be increased to 3,000
tons a month.
b. At present between 2,000 and 2,500 tons per month come from, the USSR
in ingot form. By a special convention with the USSR which has been
renewed each year for the last three years, imports of raw steel for
the tube mills are paid for by export to the USSR of a proportion,
between half and two-thirds, of the tubes produced.
c. The foundries at Resita and Hunedoara also supply raw steel when pro-
duction from the two sources mentioned above is not sufficient. The
plan is to enlarge the foundry of the 23 August Factory, so as to be-
come independent of foreign supplies.
11. Theoretically all armament factories switched to peace-time requirements
after the war. At the 6 March Factory personnel were reduced from 6,000-
8,000 men to 800, but even this small number could not be kept fully em-
ployed from 1945?48. In 1949-50 certain orders were received for artillery
ammunition up to about 108 mm. caliber and all former skilled workers were
recalled. By the middle of 1951 there were between 2,500 and 3,000 em-
ployees and new buildings were being erected. During 1950, the manufacturer
of household and other goods, which had been maintained so as to keep the
men employed, was given up. No details of production, supplies, et cetera
are available since all armament factories are run completely separately
from other industries by a department of the Ministry of Industry called
lucrari speciale (special projects). This consisted of only a few clerks
in 1948-49, grew into a section in 1950-51, and is to be expanded into a
department during 1952.
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