ASK BETTER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WORK ON USSR MOTOR VEHICLES, TRACTORS

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• Document Release Date: September 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 299
• Publication Date: February 24, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION co,'1FIDENTLIL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY UssR
UBJECT
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Economic; Technolol;;~nl _ [dotor vehicle and trac-
UBLISHED Monthly periodical
HERE
UBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED Apr 1953
LANGUAGE
DATE DIST..1~'Feb 1954
ND. OF PAGES 3
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFDRIdATION
Avtomobil'na a 1 Traktorna s Prom shlennost', No 4
ASK BETTaR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WORK
UN USSR MOTOR VEHICLES TRACTORS
In the postwar period, scientific research institutes of the motor vehicle
and tractor industry, in cooperation with motor vehicle and tractor plants,
have developed and introduced into production a number of newly designed motor
~h35'tractortrNAMIrs, technological processes, and materials, including the
(Scientific Research 6lotor? Vehicle and Motor Institute),
NATI State Union Scientific Research Tractor Institute), and Lipetsk Tractor
Plant the ZIS-156 and UAZ-51B gas-cylinder trucks operating on compressed
Bas NAMI, [do scow Motor Vehicle Plant imeni Stalin, and Gor'kiy Motor Vehicle
Plant the Ural ZIS-352 gas-generator truck `tyAMI, hfiass Ural Motor Vehicle
Plant imeni Stali~; the GB-52 and G7'-58 gas-generator tractors ~NATI, Stalin-
grad Tractor Plant/; hydraulic controls for mounted fa no Implements for the
Universal-2 and KhT2-7 tractors /A;ATI, Moscow plant imeni Rudennyy~~?
Also, the new DIICTsS nlurninum alloy Lh,1tdZ, Cor'kiy Motor Vehicle Plantj; a
process for casting YaAZ-204 engine pistons and piston rings out of iron con-
taining globular graphite ~NAMI, Yaroslavl' (`;otor? Vehicle Plart%; p_Orgavtoprom
oilless binder, hot rolling of bearing rings LnNIIPP (Experimental Scientific
Research Institute of the Dearing Industry), Moscow First State Bearing plant];
transverse rolling of balls LENIIPP, TsNITIMash (Cerrtrel Scientific Research
Institute of Technology and [dachine Building), itiII T.V.Ch. (Scientific Reseanch
Institute of liigh Frequency Currents)/'; and a new typo of forging press [NII
T.V.Ch., Giproavtotrai;toroprom (State Institute for the Planning oi' Motor
Vehicle and Tractor Industry Enterprises), and the F;oscow Sn.all Displacement
Motor Vehicle Plant~?
Scientific research ?lnstitutes publish guide materials for designers and
technologists, including instructions, handbooks, norms, and bulletins for
exchanging technical information.
for industry,
scientific research
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A considerable number of scientific research developments are undergoing
widespread production tests. These developments include steel tractor radiators
to replace brass radiators, 2OKhGB steel as n replacement for nickel-molybdenum
steel, a chrome-silicon &lioy for cylinder sleeves to replace a nickel-copper
alloy, gas-cylinder vehicles that overate on liau^fied gas, gas-generator vehicles
that overate or. solid fuel, and gas-generator units that operate oc, green wood,
for mobile electric power ~ererators used to timber-cutting regions.
Fora number of years, the motor vehicle and motor divisions of"NAMI, the
leading scientific research institute of the motor vehicle and tractor industry,
have not been taking an active part in solving many difficult industrial problems.
Postwar trucks and passenger cars (LIS-150, GAZ-51, Pobeda, ZIt?1, and others) were
developed exclusively by the design divisions of motor vehicle plants. Only in
the past 2 or 3 years has NAtiI begun work to improve the designs of these motor
vehicles and conducted research on strengthening spric3s, unifying brake systems,
strengthening the frames of truc}a, and lightening vehicle bodies.
Orgavtoprom, NII T.V.Ch., and A'IIAvtopriborov (Scientific Research Motor
Vehicle Electrical aquipmerit, Cei?buretor, and Instruments Institute) have close
ties with industry. The wor}: of these institutes is utilized at plants more
often than the work of i:,1MI,
A serious shortcoming of most scientific research institutes of the motor
vehicle and tractor industry is that they carry on work for excessively long
periods oP time without visible results. The number of projects carried over
From one year to the next by NAMI and K4TI increased 2,5 times between 194ti and
1952. In NAMI's 1952 plan, 25 Fercent of the projects had been carried over
for three consecutive years,
This situation is attributable to the multiplicity of projects and the
dispersal of personnel in the institutes. In NAMI, for example, there are lab-
oratories with a total of two or three scientific and engineering-technical
workers. Small laboratories sur.h as these cannot carry out urgent tasks such
as developing an automatic hydromechanical transmission, a more economical
gasoline engine, engine attachments for high-altitude operation, and methods of
strengthening vehicle suspensions with plastic coatings.
Research projects are carried out so slowly that the results are some-
times out. of date before the project is completed. For example, the Special
hfotor Vehicle iaboratm?y under ?;AMI has developed an idling economizer which
does not meet the technical demands for new carburetors.
Scientific research resources should be concentrated on the most important
research projects, and these projects should be completed rapidly.
Scientific research wor;c is also carried out by plant laboratories. To
find a substitute for molybdenum steel used in producing transmission gears
and in making dies, the Moscow tdotor Vehicle Plant imeni Stalin carried out
extensive research, which resulted in the develocment of new types of steel
alloyed with titanium (15KhGT, SIChGT, etc.). A nunber of plant wort:ers re-
ceived Stalin Prizes in 1951 for developing and utilizing these types of
steel. The plant is carrying on extensive research work on high-speed metal
cutting, new processes using high-frequency currents, and new methods for
saving nonferrous metals. The results of this work are utilized at other
enterprises of the motor vehicle and tractor industry.
The capacity of plant laboratories, which are well equipped and have
highly skilled personnel, should be utilized more fully.
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Scientific research institutes and plants of the motor vehicle and tractor
industry should expand work on reducing the metal consumption and increasing
Puel econo~y of motor vehicles and tractors, improving the quality of machlnes,
and developing new-types of motor vehicle and tractor gas-generator unite which
will utilize local fuels. These institutes and plants should develop long-range
plans for types of motor vehicles and tractors and create a unified series of
engines for them, develop and introduce into industry new technological pro-
cesses, and expand work on automatizing and mechanizing production processes
and control operations.
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