(SANITIZED)DESCRIPTION OF HUNGARIAN MOTOR VEHICLE FACTORY(SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A007800690002-9
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• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Assembly hail. The final assembly of the tanks and the type-800's
took place here, the engines were broken in on the test stand, and painting
was done here. A 75 ton crane ran the whole length of the assembly hall.
2. Main warehouse and outside materials receiving. Materials arriving
from cooperating enterprises and from Czechoslovakia were received and
inspected here. Also, raw materials and parts made by the factory were
stored here. Assembly received them from here.
3. Those units not yet shipped out were stored here.
4. Mechanical plant. This was the chief part of the factory. Parts were
made here. It had modern mechanical equipment. There were about 150
horizontal lathes with center to center distances of 250 to 500 Lmillimeters];
about 20 vertical lathes (carrousel); 30 milling cutters; 15-20 planes;
magnetizing and demagnetizing, for testing for hairline cracks in main
axles and torsion axles; semi-automatic Dittler Lor Pittler] benches;
grinding machines; polishing machines; etc.
5. Forging plant, with 50-60 ton compressed air hammers; tempering, polishing,
chroming, and battery charging station.
6. Plant kitchen, mess hall, culture hall, buffet.
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7. Identity paper checking station. This was only for people entering
or leaving on foot. Vehicles used No 9.
9. Identity paper checking station. -lain gate.
8. Administration building. Naturally, there were also plant chief
offices in each plant.
10. Artificial lake. Insulation of the tanks was checked here. The
tank stood in it for a certain time (15-20 minutes), only a part of the
turret showed [above water].
.[Notes on drawing itself: "Site of the Motor Vehicle Factory" and
"Budapest.-Miskolc Rail Line."]
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A Description of the Motor Vehicle Factory
It lies between Budapest and Godollo, in the forest, in the former
royal hunting preserve, near to (about one kilometer from) the Miskolc-
Budapest rail line. It produced type-800 personnel carrier and towing
vehicles, caterpillar tracked and stick controlled; T-34 tanks, completely
equipped; and, beginning the first half of 1956, parts for the J-55 [?]
tanks. Complete assembly operations were performed here even though some
of the parts came from outside. For example: the tank bodies came from
Czechoslovakia, the engine blocks came from East Germany, the rough main
axles and the torsion axles came from Pest, from the Preko [probably an
abbreviation for the Pros- as Kovacsoltarugyar, see below], etc. The
remaining parts needed, many hundreds of them, were made here. One
interesting thing was the way shock absorption was provided to both
personnel carriers and tanks. They needed no shock absorbers other than
the torsion axles; these were perfectly satisfactory and well proven.
Briefly, it was essentially that the holding axles terminated in the so
called HZ" axles and they turned even at the slightest shock. They were
made of the most typical spring steel. The factory is surrounded by a
wire fence and armed industrial guards guard it; they have a barracks
outside of the factory area (about 100 meters away).
Receiving [ordinance] officers receive the personnel carriers and
tanks made by the factory and after they are broken in they are taken
away. I might mention that a spedial road was built into the forest for
breaking in runs. I think the products went to the Soviets even though
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Hungarian Army markings were painted on the outside. In contrast to
this, in the shop where they prepared the tool boxes they put Russian
military buttons on the tool boxes. The personnel of the factory numbered
2,600-2,800 persons. Cooperating enterprises of the factory were:
Csepel Vas es Feimnuvek (Csepel Iron and Metal t`orks), Diosgyori Vasontode
as Gepgyar (Diosg7or Iron Foundry and Machine Factory), Borsodnadasdi
Lemezarugyar (Borsodnadasd Sheet fetal Factory), Preselt as Kovacsoltarugyar
(Pressed and Forged Goods Factory) in Budapest, Magyar Optikai Aavek
(Hungarian Optical Works) in Budapest, and Ganz Villamossagi gyar (Ganz
Electrical Factory) in Budapest.
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