CONDITIONS AT THE REED PLANT OF TEWA-NEUSTADT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R012000160003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 13, 2002
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 9, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION 25X1 C
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COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone) DATE DISTR. 9 July 1952
SUBJECT Conditions at the Reed Plant of Tewa-Neustadt NO. OF PAGES 2
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a reed is 300 meters.
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5. The Tewa reed plant now makes only No. 231 reeds, One sole'
exception to this rule has-occurred of late'$' one DIN 5 reed
was produced at the. beginning of April 1952, The average life of
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The number of No, 231 reeds made and delivered during the
first three months of 1952 is as follows:
January 40 reeds
February 46 reeds
March- 50 reeds, of which 35.'were one meter wide, and
15 were 1.20 meters wide.
Prom April to 7 April 1952, four, No. 231 weeds were completed.
The present normal monthly, out put of the p a t 1a fifty No. 231
`reeds TYie output? de~dre ee a 'little in..the near future,
-because of the illness' ,of one-of the solderers, Helmuth
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6, A list of incoming shipments of reed lamellae band steel follows.
17 December 1951: 70.35 kg.
25 January 19520 143.05 kg.
25 February 19520 116,25 kg. -
25 March 1952: slightly more than 200 kg.
All of the band steel listed above was of type X05. No bane' steel
of type U12A has arrived since two deliveries of such steel were received
in July and September 1951. The reed plant is now processing the
band steel received in December 1951, so that there is a band steel
reserve of about 460 kg.
7. Type X05 band steel is straighter than Swedish steel. However it
is inferior to the Swedish steel in quality in that its degree
of tempering is lower than that of Swedish steel:and its tempering
is not uniform.
8. The reed plant has on hand E supply of about 10 kg. of spring steel
wire. This includes a delivery of 8 kg. from the Kabelwerk Koepenick,
which arrived at the end of February 1952. The Kabelwerk Koepeniek
draws the wire down to the required strength from base wire of
larger dimensions, The origin of this base wire is not known, but
it is known, however, that one delivery of spring steel wire from Koepenick
was drawn from base wire received from Russia.
9. About 15 March 1952, three kg. of Monel wire arrived from the
Kupfer-undMessingwerke (SAG Marten) Hettstedt. Phosphor-bronze
wire had been used instead of Monel wire prior to the arrival
of this shipment. The quality of the Hettstedt.Monet wire cannot
be judged. Part of the shipment mentioned was good, but some of it
brok easily. It is believed, nevertheless, that, in the future,
the Hettrtedt plant will be able to deliver Monel wire of adequate
quality in sufficient quantity.
10. The plant has a reserve of tin representing a year?s needs, but it
does :riot have any lead, which is needed for the making of the 7000
tin-lead alloy used for the soldering of reeds. The alloy is therefore
procured from a firm in Greiz. Seventy kg. of this alloy arrived at
the end of March 1952.
11. ' Pumice stones for polishing are procured from the IGES firm in Theuern,
near Sonneberg. They are of good quality.
12. Tungsten resistors for soldering hammers are delivered by an unidentified
East German firm.
13. Allegedly none of the material needed for the making of reeds is imported
from the West,
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