GOTTWALD IRON WORKS IN KRALOVO POLE

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• Publication Date: August 16, 1951
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S MAY 1949 51.61 CLASSIFICATION, SECRET/CONT.iL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AG -+CY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO. 50X1-HUM
DATE DISTR. 16 August 1951
,,SUBJECT Gottwald Iron works in Kralovo Pole NO. OF PAGES 1
50X1-HUM
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The GOTT4VALD-WORKS in BRNO- KRALOVO POLE,-
Department for the production of Rail-road cars4
0rganization and production_program for 1950 and 1951s
The 1950 production program (see attachement 1,) has not been 50X1-HUM
fulfilled I Failure to fulfill
these orders was the result of limiting deliveries of profiled rolled material
by the Hutni Prodejna (Foundtres Sales Organization) in Prague and the
KLADNO, VITKOVICE and TRINFF rolling-Hills.
To maintain ela4ae e deliveries according to orders, the remaining
cars and locomotive tenders that had not been produced in 1950 have been
transferred into the 1951 production program , for which year production had
been planned in November and H.ecember 1950. Production of Diesel powered
R,R, cars had to be postponed until$ the above delayed orders will have been
completed,
Production program-for the year 1951: (see attachement l,)
PAPIjIj The plant management has repeatedly approached the Hutni Prodej-
na to aawawe ?me similar delays in production owing to a shortage of rolled
profiled material. As a result of this, rolled profiled material for 50X1-HUM
January 1951 had already been delivered during the last week of November 19504
permanent production of 20 cars weekly has been introduced)
These are -to -'supplement the stocks of this type of cars, which ham n- t bee 50X1-HUM
renewed since 191+5.Nevertheless, it appears unlikely that the series
will be re a ed in the second half of 19511
order to get rid of the material prepared for production L
the Ministry of National Defense will probably increase th50X1-HUM
number of flat-cars ordered from an original 32L. to 500 cars. In the production
plan for 1951 no reference was made to the liquidation of materials prepared.
Production of Diesel powered cgrs is to start 50X1-HUM
in the second half of 1951.
Specification of cars and tenders produced in
a..) the year 1951 :
E-1:
E-&: 50X1-HUM
E-3r -axle, flat-cars, capacity 50 tons, KNO,R brake unit. Axels In bearing-
boxes, with SKF bearings.
E-5: the gage of the tenders for narrow7gage locomotives for the USSR is iden-
tical with the 'narrow-gage field--rsr.-stt in Czechoslovakia. Tender axles
are placed in boxes with SKF bearings.
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E'6:. broad-*gage tenders for the USSR, They have 4 axles, placed in bearing-
boxes with SKF bearings and KNOR brakes.
E-10 two-axle tank-cars with a 200 Hectoliter capacity. Very high specifica-
tions were demanded for the quality of the weldings on the cylindrical part
and head-pieces as well. as for the draining-tap openings, Which were fitted
with bronze-rings for the sake of higher accuracy of fitting. All cars were
subjected - s. They are destined for liquids..
E-11: 50X1-HUM
E-12-.- a four-axle, flat-car, equipped with electrically driven crane. No further
details are known about these carse
b*) for the year 1951 (planned):
E-2: 50X1-HUM
E--3: see as E-3 for 1950,
E.4: (see attached plan A6)Moistening-cars for coking-plants. They are of the
deep-slung flat-car type, with 4 axles, placed in boxes with SKF bearings.
They are tandem-cars, i.e. to be pulled in connection with a motor RIB-car,
and are equipped with coupling devices(hooks, etc. as well as contacts for
electric curr ent only on one end. They consist of two platforms. The lower
plattform, which rests by two phis on two, twin-axle under-carriages, has
el built-in lifting,-mechanism., placed in a box under the middle of the platt-
form. This lifting mechanism is hydraulic, with telescopic extension pistons.
It is driven by an electromotr, fed by power from the motor R.R.-car, The
upper platform can be inclined to a maximum of 30 degrees, around pins which
are fastened at the opposite end of the car, tim from the one that has the
coupling devises. The upper platform is of a "partitiontt-construction, with
metal grids that are to prevent the supporting structure from being damage4
by the coke. Under the grid there is metal sheeting to prevent the water
that is being brought, in the course of moistening from dripping through and
damaging the mechanisms of the lower platform, - The car is about 18 meters
long aid of conventional width.
E-S: the same as E-5 for 1950.
E-6: E-6
F, '7: 50X1-HUM
E-8: four axles, axles in SKF bearing boxes, KNOR brakes.
Organisation of the car-factory:
The supplies sator :The central stores have been divided into
"Supply centers" to hasten placing orders for materials for the quarterly
periods and to facilitate keeping *heck on delivery dates.
The production sector: see attachements AA and A5.
System of obtaining supplies: The technical office sends the Pro-
duction sector break-dvms, both for groups and details, as well as blue-
prints for planning courses of cars and tenders, for each ordering dead-line.
According to the organization shown in attachement A2 these are passed on
to the Supply Centers, wehes the items are entered on Planning sheets.
After that, materials are ordered with a fixed date of delivery.
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welders have been persistently over heating materials in electric welding,
he result is a brittle material . Blow-torch welders have been 4ave-bee3
welding with ttshort-flame", that is with too much oxigen,.9 which in case of
cutiing results in inaccuracies of up 25-30 milimeters. They use the same
flame for welding which means deformations of the material$ Tinkling) that
has to be hammered out.
Materials: The greatest defect is the use of fresh, insufficiently
dried lumber for car walls. The lumber contract~j* paint cracks off and is
not durable. Because of the use of fresh. lumber temrering is now omitted and
cover varnishes are being applied instead,
Estimates:
The average overheads of the Centers are xf 150%. Of theSmithy,
center 1735, overheads reach 300%. Apart from this, administrative over-
heads of 40% are to be added.
Executive personnel:
Pia nt manager: Frantisek PIZA
Deputy manager and hea o production administration:
Head of personnel: fnu VAGIJER
In charge of organization:'_-fnu PROKOP
Chief of wages accountancy: fnu POIIZKA LISKA_
Cashier: fnu HUTNEROVA
Security Officer= fnu"13ILEK
Control of fulfilment of Plan: fnu ILUSALQ
Chairman of the Works Councils fnuJEZEK
Chief of supplies sector: Karel VESELY
Chief of planning for Petroleum sector: fnu VANEK
It! Bridge It : fnu KONECNY
It Machines tt. : fnu DOLEZAL
it Tools fnu VSIANSKY
if Steel-Works tt : fnu VSIANSKY
it Cars tt : fnu SYCHRA
Chief of task bureau:, fnu Vaclav STEJSKALo
Transfers of workers:
At the end of October about 1,000 workers from the Brno ZBROJOVKA
(armammnt-w rks) and from the plant for light engineering have been transfer-
red to the heavy engineering sector.
At the same time some 100 GREEKS were sent to this plant to work
as assistant laborers in transporting materials.
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Sources of materials:
Rolled profiled materials are delivered by the Hutni Prodejna in
Prague. These materials are produced, according to the names stencilled
on the ends of the girders, by the VITKOVICE Iron Works, TRINEC and KhADNO. BE
Bent walls of tender-boxes come 2bm the SKODA-(forks in Plzen. In case of
need, the plant could itself produce such bent walls, v&h its present equip-
ment and become independent o# the SKOA-'dorks.
Subcontractors: wheel aggregates for cars and tenders and KNOR
brake-aggregates are delivered by SKODA through their sales-organizatioi
By"deliveries' is meant for example a part manufactured in
center 1715 and shipped to center 1729. See attachement A4.
Deliveries by sub--contractors mean deliveries of parts which
are not manufactured by the Gottwlad4,forks, but received from elsewhere
in a state permitting immediate use or assembly. (e.g aggregates, screws,
bearing boxes, etc.)
Shipments to the USSR.:
Deliveries for the USSR are received by Soviet experts and shipped
only after approval by them. These Soviet representatives check on mea-
surments of wheel-aggregates, and ufiercarriages. Deliveries to them are
only possible if they are first made reasonably drunk and if a reliable
foreman of the plant"helps# them by suitably "stretching" the tape measure.
Even so under-carriages are often returned to the intermediary stores.
After the experts depart, these same sets are once more mounted into a
further series of cars and tenders and again presented for approval.
As regrads shipment of broad-gage tenders to the trans-shipping
ya ds at Cirna nad Tisou (pri Cope), see attachement A 7.
Undercarriages for broad-gage tenders are shipped on flat-cars.
The tender-boxes are shipped on two twin-axle Czechoslovak undercarriages,
whose pins are placed identically with the Sariet type undercarriages.
In COP the boxes are lifted from the Czse undercarriages, and placed on
the Soviet-gagan types.This is being done by two cranes in the COP station-
one lifts the boxes and the other places the Soviet type undercarriages
from the flat-cams onto the rails, under th?n.
Bottlenecks:
Organ isat ional:Tnatrials may not be stored in advance and are
permitted to be in the Centers not more than one month before using. This
rule was enacted in May 1950 and all stores exceeding one month' needs
had to be handed over to other plants. But this often hampers production.
It may happen that a given part is manufactured badly, but no immediate
replacement for such a reject is available and has to be first placed on
order.
Owing to the process of work: Owing to the indtroduction d'
workers' competition the production norms for each worker were increased
substantially to a point, where a normal workman is physically unable to
fulfil the norm. But since the wages for a fulfilled norm are incompa-
rably higher than for unfulfilled ones, every worker is nevertheless trying
to achieve this performance, at the expense of quality. For example in
the Center 1712 for Under-c ;sue, in order t at they fulfil- their norm
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Gottwald works at BRNO-Kralovo Polo
Department* CAR-PRODUCTION:
Production program for 1950
Order # type of car--
electric trolley-cars
planned
number:
tandem cars for electric trolleys
flat-cars
narrow gage tenders
broad-gag s[e tenders
tank-cars
crane-cars
ingot car
80 to Czechoslovak State R.R.
1 Vitkovice Iron -Works at Ostrava
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delivergd Shipped to;
number :
.Attachement A 1a
Distributed according to requirements:
16 to Ostrava transit-company
6 ? Olomouc 't 11
25 It Brno it It
30 to Brno transit-company
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32t. 80 transferred to plan for 10,51
li2.
L 300, transferred to plan for 1951
360 740 transferred to plazn for 1951
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Gottwald Works in Brno-Kralove Po e,
Attachement A -2p
Organisational division into SECTORS and CENTERS:
Car-plant;
Bridge-construction plant;
Steel-Hill models
rough-finishing
Petroleum works;
Machine works;
Tool works:
upties Sector:
Principal stores,
Supplies Centers:
Raw materials;
Pipes, pressed and forged parts
Castings from sub-contractors
Steel-alloy castings
Sheets and non-ferrous metals
Coupling material
Sub-deliveries from Sub-contractors
Leather, rubbers packings,card-
board,
Electro-inaterials.
Building materials.
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Gottwald-Works in Brno-Kralovo i]e
Dep. tment: CAR PRODUCTION*
Production program for 1951.
Order # T
e of c
r
P
d
yp
a
s:
ro
uced
per month:
Planned
number:
Delivered Shipped to: Number of Number
number: series in prod: of teas
per se-
ries.
Motor-propelled cars
38
Czs, State R.R. 2 19
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with Diesel engines
Mail-cars
6
2
-7
7
1 27
0
50
24.
Ministry of Nat.Defensei6 1 80
Moistening cars for
E. coke production
3
1
Vitkovice Iron Works,, Ostrava
C)
Narrow-gage tenders
30
124
USSR. 1
0
3
4tz
Broad-gage tenders
20
220
Electric trolley-cars
5
15
Ostrava Transit Company 1
Large volume tenders
20
65
Czs
State R
R
1
,
,
.
20
Service cars
20
50
1 25
7
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Gottwald ,rks at BRNO-Kralovo Pole
Attachement, A 3,
Personnel of the Supplies Sectors
Official in charge of Supplies: Karel VESELY
Principal stores:
Antonin PITTNER
Raw materials: STRITEZSKY all fnu.
Pipes, pn ssed and forged parts: MIKULASEK.
Castings from sub-contractors: SKOTAK
Steel-,alloy castings: SKOTAK
Sheets and non-ferros metals: FtHS
CCiiPlIng materials: S- MA
Sub-deliveries : GLACNER
Leather, rubber, packings, card boards N MOMMA
Electro-materials: ZABRS
Building materials: NECAS
SEeRFT
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Gottwald works in Brno-Kralovo P]e
Or anis.tional division of the Car-facto into Centers:
CER FACTORY
(productijon section)
1729 Intermediary Stores of Car-factory (p.z.s.)
01729 Stores of coupling materials (p.zos.)
Lathes-shop for light :parts I. (v.so)
Lathes-shop, for heavy parts II.(v.s.)
1722 Locksmiths., barrel-shop (voso)
1723 Interior fittings, sheeting of frames (v.s.
1724 Small ironworks, doors (v.s.)
Attachement A 4.
Undercarriage shop, 1711- Io (v.so)
Undercarriage shop, 1712- II. (voso)
Carpentry-shop, production 1716 (v.s.)
Lathes-shop (vos.) 1715
. (voso exists only in administrative respect)
Assembly of boxes and roofs, 1718 (voso)
Final assembly., 1719 (v.so)
Paint-shop, 1721 (v,s.)
Locksmith-shop, production, 1713 (v.so)
(v.s. exists only in administrative respect)
Carpentry-shop, assembly, 1717, (v.s.)
Smithy, 1735 (vos.)
p.z.s. means:Pomocne zasobovaci stredisko,- supplementary stores center
Vos. means: Vyrobni stredisko,- production center.
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Attachement A 5?
Division of Production centers and Supplementary store center in the CAR FACTORY
as regards the 195i production program,
Name and No. of Center Production tasks:
]17+ Under-carriage-
shop., I.
Under-carriages and
wheel-aggergates
r
r)
`'12 Undercarriage-
-11 shop., II.
W
detto, as above
nar
complete
tenders r
toning cars.
1713 Locksmiths-
productione
and mois- machines.
(production center which exists only in administrative
respect)
Machine equipment:
Number of emplo- Chief
gees:
1 "sepia", 1 table planer, 70 FLETs:[NGE .
2 vertical fretting machines,
2 rail-drills,3 radial pillar-
drills, 1 blunt welding-auto-
mat,l pneumatic riveting press,
5 electric welding apparati,
several blow-torch welding setso
1"seping",i table planer, 2
"carousel"-s, 2 rail-drills,.5
radial pillar-drills,, 1 spreader,
3- mechanical hole-puncher, several 120
row-gagee pneumatic riveting machines, welding
?- 50X1-HUM
C!C
L&J
unknonm ad OA
170 mina. off o
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1714 Lathes shop for Light conponents for 6 high-speed lathes, 2 sepings, 5 not knobin
light parts. all types of cars and 3 vertical fretting machines, 3
tenders. finishing machines, 3 radial drills
for large holes,
1715 Lathes shop for hea- Heavy conponents for 4 universal heavy lathes, 2 carou- unknown
vy parts all types of cars and sell, 2 horizontal fretters, 2 15
tenders, screw-cutters, 2 small radial drills,
1 disc grinder
8 1715 Lathes shop ( productions center which exists only in administrative
respect)
O
t~ 1716 Production Complete woodwork not known
L.f carpentry, for bodies and into
ca equipment of cars.
20 adm.officials
VASICEK and PMASEK
U
70 HYSEK
carpentry 1 hollowing fretter b
1718 Assembly of boxes construction and as- 1. electr. hand-drills,
and roofs, sembly of complete 2 radial drills, I hand
roofs on all types of bending-machine,l mechanical
cars* shaper for hammering roofsy
several welding-mashines
+
60 OLEJNICEIC Co2
1719 Final assembly all types of cars 1 thread-cutter for pipes,3 radial
drills,l frame metal-saw,several 80 HAMER
oxigen welding slits,
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1721 paint-shop
1722 Locksmiths,cabin-
shop.
fittings
1723 Interior
sheeting
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painting of all cars and
tenders after final assembly.
9~ SEDLACEK
Cabins for all types of cars. 1 pillar drill,several
ro la-
ller
rinder 2 p Pe /f
i disc
g
teral drills,
4OpVt~?ICI
friction-presses,l seping, not in use.45
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q3e
, All sheeting work on
of frames. all types of cars.
2 meters eng , is STEJS is
several hail benders,l ringing press, 65 Alo KAL
several drills and welding sets.
1 machine clipper, 1 hole-puncher, 1
strip-saw for metals, 1 shears for 5mm
1 th 1 mechanical sheet bender,
Small smithy,
doors
1735 Smithy
t.
R1
LAJ
"7291ntermediary
stores of car-
factory
1729 Stores of
coupling(joining)
materials.
metal-work on cars 1 sheet-metal bender,l.radial drill,
I disc grinder, 2 oxigen welding sets, 6o pA~ ILEI{
1 hand-roller for sheet-metal.
castt,ings and mouldings Presses, mechanic hammers, mecha-
for cars and tenders* nic shears fnr profiles, 1 mecha- its person-
nic riveter. nel under MATOUSEKo
Bridge-shop.
storage of complete (supplementary stores center)
parts from Centers
1715,,1722,1723,1721E
1735 and issuance to
center 1719 for ass
sembly.
issues:screws, rivets,(supplementary stores center) MILION..
pins, washers,bands,
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System of elevating the upper container-platform of the ning car for coke furnaces
Drain without regard to seal
upper platform in raised position
telescope joint
indicated position of telescopic lifting device:
upper platform in normal position
bun er, coupling hook,cable-fitting
lower platform of car
pin supporting turning under-carriage
telescope joint
sdnc!ithininf elevator box
covered box with elevator,pump, el. mot,
rotation pin of upper platform
elongation of gliding surface
the railing is characterized by the axis
of inertia of a certain profile.
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Transport of locomotive tenders for the USSR to the CIERNA nad TISQR (COP)
R.R. station.
Schematic drawing, not in scale.
Parts of USSR tenders
rotating ~mdercarriageeof the Czs
Css. at-car RqR.
Box of USSR terriers
rotating undercarriages
.tenders..
turn1n2 pins of USSR
of the
tenders.
tumuin$ pins of the assembly under-..
The turning pine of the USSR and Czs. undercarriages are of the same
diameter.
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