FACTORIES OF THE BATA COMPLEX

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R006400010003-6
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• Document Page Count: 14
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2012
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 23, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE A ENC`4 REPO
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
DATE DISTR. 23 Oct. 1950
NO. OF PAGES 3
NO. OF ENCLS. 5
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Bata Gottwaldov (Z1in)Works*
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1. The works employ 22,000 men, of whom 6,000 work in the machine shops and 800 in
the foundry. Work is done in two shifts, with the exception of the foundry and
the rubber works, where three shifts are employed. The works produce 11,000
pairs of shoes and 5,000 tires daily, as well as triangular section rubber driv-
ing belts, flat driving belts, rubber insulated flooring, and stockings. The
machine shops produce machinery and machine tools for rubber working, shoemaking,.
etc. These machines and machine tools are partly for the use of other departments
of the Data complex, and partly for sale. Eighty percent of the goods produced
are for export to the USSR, 10% for internal consumption and for export to
satellite countries, and 10% for export to the West.
2. Raw rubber is obtained I in small quantities5OX1-H U M
from the USSR. Reclaimed rubber is obtained from the Eastern Zone of Germany.
axon and steel are supplied from the iron works at Ostrov and Trine(, and
special steel from Kladno. Coal is obtained from the Data mines at Ratiborice
and Dubnany.
3. Major recent developments at the works are as follows:
a, The manufacture of electric motors is being transferred from Gottwaldov to
Roznov pod Radhostem, as is a part of the stocking factory. The space vacated
is to be used for extending the machine shops,
b. A new machine shop has been built between I;alenovice and Kvitkovice and has
already been connected by sidings with the railroad line. The building is
280 in. long by 80 m. wide and is ready to be put into operation?
The Parik factory at Napajedla has been turned over to manufacturing gun
carriages.
d. Oil has been discovered at Hodonin and wells are being drilled.
e. The Bata aircraft factory in Kunovice near Uherske 11radiste is manufacturing
aircraft, type Buecker 181, fitted with Praga 4 engines. Production is one
aircraft per week. This factory is also making Krajanek gliders.
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SUBJECT Factories of the Data Complex
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t. The railroad station at Otrokovice is being moved, and the tracks of
the railroad junction are being relaid because the present arrsngemet
is inadequate for the traffic.
g. The airfield at Otrokovice is being abandoned in order to make room for
a new rubber factory, of which one building has already been construe z,
h. The railroad line from Otrokovioe to Gottwaldov has been double tx??zc d
and a second track is aleo being laid between Gottwaldov and Vizovi-r,
It is intended to lay a second track from Vizovioe to 7alaska Pola.n si
but because of the difficult terrain this track will not be complete(:-', c
some time.
Bata Batov Works
The works employ 6,000 mac, working six deys a week in two shit'fmm
5 . The work consist of the following principal departments'
a. The new tannery built in 1947 and now in full operation. The building
is 200 m, long by 80 m. wide and has eight floors. Hides are import d
eem.ce wors,.
b, The old tannery athich consists of four buildinav and is also in
a, weaving of copper mesh; 15,000 kg. of mash are produced per days
d. Weaving fabrics for tires.
e. Textile factory, producing cloth for all purposesa.
f. Machine shops producing rubber-and 1eathe -snaking machinery and large
cogwheels; employs 535 men in two shifts,
g. Assembly shops on three floors: on the first floor are the machine ohopsg
the second floor, assembly unit; and the third floor, maintenance and spy
parts shops.
h., Power station equipped with three turbo-generators using black coal dust
as fuel and producing enough power for the whole works,, The power station
is also connected with the West Moravian electricity grid.
i. Harbor for river traffic which can be used by Danube vessels of 100 - 1'C,
tons travelling from the Danube down the river brava and up the '
of the Oreveni to the works.
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Woodwcr?king shop producing shoo lasts and wooden models.
About 400 yards north of the works is a section of the Bata chemical
factory producing pre cellulose and rubber solvents used for tire m nu-
facture arm. glue.
Fa Rubber : actoa?y at Nap
6. The factory consists of three buildings of three floors each, and as production
is to be increased, a fourth building is in process of construcction. Ou:bput
of the factory is principally military equip nt9 and a military liaiaor st f'f
is arched to the factory,
7. Raw materiels are brought via the main factory at Gottwaaldov. The factor? ti C,aa
not have its o ,,m pow ? Apply and draws its yenta from the Prerov power a , .t
There is, ho vvor, a. steam generating plant, The factory employs 3,000 r-- of
whom 31,,D are of "inials, aid they work. in three s?ii,ts, The night shUrt is
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CEI 'AL I I ELLICENCE AGENCY
The factory produces gas masks, filters for which are manufactured by the
Batav chemical works, rubber anti-gas clothing, rubber parts for shook a sorbers
for tanks, rubber parts for tank tracks and tractor tracks, rubber gaskets
1for automobiles, and various rubber parts for industrial and technical wet,
Bata. Machine Tool Factory at Sezimavo Usti
The Bats, Machine Tool Factory is located about half a kilometer from Sezl,,a (,
Usti near the railroad line to Ceske Budejovice. The factory manuf acts :s
lathes, radial boring machines and spinning machines,
10. Production is 8 lathes per day, 2 radial boring machines type R per day.,
1 type R-4 per day, and 1 type R-8 two weeks. Products are exported
to the MM, Poland, It m aria, Bulgar
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11. The factory employs 1,400 men working in two shifts, but the foundry works
in three shifts. Equipment of the factory includes one electric blast f urw ce a
one otpola oven and three Bessemer furnaces. AU equipment is in good c1ox1
ilition, Electric power is used.
Trines and Kiadnos electric motors from the ME.Z Factory in Roznov pod Radhoste j
12. Materials cove from the following places: from and steel from Vitkovioe
50X1-HUM
The principal shortages are in non-ferrous metals and ball bearings.
Raw materials and finished goods are transported by rail, and the factor; has
its owr! railroad sidings.
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Cement: Bata is now known an ItSvittt. 50X1-HUM
Attachments: IQ Sketch showing location of Bata factories.
II, Sketch showing layout of Da to Sott