RAKOSI-MATYAS WORKS, GSEPEL ISLAND

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 84
• Publication Date: February 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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Hungary
Rdkosi-Mdtyds Yorks, Osepel Island
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. The Rdkoei-Mdtyds Works, known as the "RM Works," for short, are located on
Csepel Island, south of Budapest, in an area of about 2.5 by 1 kilometers,
Thle largo industrial undertaking was built not long after the World War_
I. It was at that time in the possession of the weise-Manfred
These owners, however, left Hungary the moment the German troops came in,
The works then passed into German hands and were taken over, as German property,
by the tloviets, at the end of World War II, In honor of Prime Minister Mgtyds
Rdkoel (or, in the Hungarian form, Rdkosi M(tyge), the works were, on 1 May 50,
named the "OsepelerRdkosi mdtydr Iron and Mtai. Industrial !lorks."
c. Up to the summer of 1950, armaments were net made in this plant. But atter
this date, they were put into production on a large ecale, it present, this
plant is officially under Hungarian direction, but in view of its large
productivity it Is actually under ioviet control. There are about 150 soviet
engineers and technical specialists. Of the present force of some 30,000 workers,
about forty percent are skilled workers of some kind and about twenty percent
are helpers. The rest are half-trained individuals, who nay some day become
skilled workers.
Especially prominent in the management of the factory are:
a, Engineer Ldszle Boros, head of the Jupiter Motors Avision, a convinced
Communist.
b. senior Engineer Dr. Celey, head of the Metal Industry.
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IstvtfnStefanek,. senior engineer and head of the tube factory.
d. Senior Engineer Ambrozi, head of the new tAbing division,
e. 'Dr. MikldS J3,mdi, head of the management organization.
f. ,Senior engineer Jdzsef Csernik, head of the materials supply division.
g. Engineer Heringer, head of the materials research division.
h. Gyula koczina, secretary of the Communist Party.
Imre Berger, secretary of the management committee.
j. Undor Holl, works secretary,
4. The tool and nail divisions work in one shift of from 7 a.m.
forge, the tractor section, and the metal dishes and utensils
.t0.2..p,m.. and: again from?2 p4m4. ,to_10 p.r. ri twe
other sections work in three shifts, 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.; 2 p.m.
and. 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.
. The edkosi Mdtyde Plant has the following division*:
Smelting
8tee1
thin .
Tractors . e e
Jup1ter-7orge . airplane motorse
Nunitions ?
,Motoroycles
lalcYclev, -
-,!ewing madlinca ,
Ashes_ and utehsilb , e
Machine,toolo :
containers
_hluminumeUnd metals
Mashinery,, ,
'ire and nulls,
leillpoad equipment ,
Olusu
Tublng -
.Electrodes and electric motors., .
(;.loth. factory.
to 3 p.m. The
section work
ahiftee,
to 10 p.m.;
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AOrkinE.atea-As:suvrounde4,1v,a,stone.waIl,aboAt 2.5 meters high. ebove
this, there is barbed wire. The armaments division is surrounded also by
5pecIII-1)41rbcdwireantia,laglement24.5 metere .high, This Is under constant
gutvd. The police of the RM Works consist of a hundred industrial police
1.6 fifty tVH troops, commanded by an gVH captain. The industrial police
- have longerange-rifles.. The. VH troops 4havtmachlna4lstols.
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7. cllp an are. to talk
about what they are doing or what the production figures are. Even workers
:in different ,diyisionS.must not,exchange_information.with,each other. The
workers can go only int their own sections of the works and, even there,
Lmust,.be,identifibd.by proper documentsw Afroducts_under_way in the armament
division are indicated by "cover names. " Thus, if the forge makes tubes for
ztrench:mortars,.they'go:Under.the,namef.of,."auto_axles.". Itseompleted,trench
mortars are "sewing machines."
8. In the tubing shop, steel tubes of eight to 400 millimeters diameter are
made,,,Waterpipes,..oil.pipps,.bicycle_frames42!sewing machine frames, and
different parts for artillery and machine guns are among the products here.
:Monthly. Production,of,tuPing of,different_Sorta.reaches about four hundred
carloads, About sixty-five percent of this is delivered to the :;oviet Union.
,In the,new tubing,divisiono-rifle barrels of calibers 7,62, 5,9, and 15,6
millimeters are being made, Production amounts to from seventy to eighty
.carloads monthly. '
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9. In other sections, the, following:prodUp.are being madm.?., ,
,Jupiter,airplane motors: Parts for the motors of gessersohmidi and
Heinkel plms.
b. Armament division; Aircraft bombs, casings for trench mortars, and
Artillery ammunitien of various calibers. Daily production is thirty.
five to forty tons. The manufacture of casings is taken over by a
_standing .;oviet military commission, within the factory itself,
0, iliAllway'equipment1 140,00Motives ,for the Soviet Union.
d. J,MaPhins, tools divison; lathes, fraisers (milling tools), planers,
steam turbines, ciroular saws, boring machines, automatic cutters, etc,
10, The best known makos of tools and machine tools here produced re;
a. ,I,atilektz_
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Type EU, 1000 mm center distance and 175 mm center height. For
eutting,lithworth, metric- and pattern threads,(Gewinden). Gross
weight; 74u kilograms; net weight, 610 kilograms.
42)., Typo IN, 500 mm center distance and 125 mm center height. Gross
Wei.ghts, :630 kilogrAMBA:net weight, 540 kilograms,
(3) Type iviVtia 2500 mm center distance and 280 mm center height, Gross
weight, 4,75, kilogpaMq; nct.,,weight"0920,U1104P4MPA,.:.-,
441 Wpe .?AN,. 1000 MM,Penter distance 170 mm cepter_height,,for 90;ing
Withworth-.1.44 MatriPa1:thre.a45 without ,04041g,lowe,15, ,
2/F, carrousel-bench (Kink), Center'disiance, 1450 mm.
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paaasavaaavype UF21aTab1eawasurementsa, 1600:by-420-mCa
4150 kilogram;-pet_weigt, 3241 kilograms,
Gross weight,
c. _Drills (Bohrmaschin0: TypeaRP,45001tm,radial distance.and 604mn.chuek
-eapacity (Eitspannungs-Kapazititt),-- ?
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d. .Automatic cutting tools lachheideautomaterill ?
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Type 88 45, for tube threading. Internal measure,
.outer :diameter, .8,5 inches -(2o11).0
.Hydraulio oold-teMpered (Kalt),acircularasawsa Type
alloys. aid ,
4.5 inches (2o11),
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11. The machine. divisions makes all kinds of machinery.. Monthly production runs
up to ten or twelve carloads, The -smelting division-produoesebout a ,theueand
tons of iron a month. The steel division has two seetions. The first has four
Martin furnaces and three eleotro-furnaces. Monthly production is about 700
'tons of steel?, ,The other section doeu iron casting,. The rolling mill makes
plates, iron beams, round bracing and reonforcing rods. The forge has three
presses and three steam hammers. It makes axle -parts avnd rough machine,parts?
12. The tractor division is already in the hands of the controlled military industry.
It makes tractera of Type fl/30-35 .and Type,9/50-55,-with 45 -hpa motors', These
tractors eon also.be used with caterpillar treads. The division also:makowaprime
movers arid rollers. There are no figures .on production Quantity.
13? The electrode and electro-motor division makes electric welders, Monthly production
of electro-motors.runcup to five carload:Fa. The motoreyele division makes
motorcycles of 100, 125, and 250 cubic centimeters., These are mostly for export.
However, the Hungarian Army is supplied withthea,250'euble centimeter motorcycles.
There is no, information as totheproduotion.Of the iieyele.diviction
14. The sewing machine division makes about thfee **Plead& Of **wing machines a
month. There are four different kinds.
15. The aluminum and metals division produces tubes, plates, and rods of laadurgie and
aluminum, . Monthly production is between fifty and sixty carloads?
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16. The wire and nail divisinproduoeo/arioQskindeoLnai1sj wire, barbed wire,
and towing cables. The monthly produetion is between forty and fifty carloads,
27. The container division produces steel flasks:and ovarious fuel containers. Monthly
production is about thirty carloads.
18. The gloss division makes about fifteen carload& a:month of4lifilerent kinds of
glassware, window glass, etc.
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19. The monthly producgm,tat:the, cloth factory is ninety to.a hundred carloads. The
greater part of this goes to the Hungarian Army, the rest to tha SattllitO Statea,
20, Of the necessary raw materials, the H-M Works receives coke and iron are from
the oviet Union. Steel comes from East Germany. Aluminum and scrap iron come
frau the interior,
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