Re: Short trip to Bulgaria

Posted by Guscha On 2015/12/20 8:45:08
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If I'm correct, Russia had their own design & production of cars & trucks in the early part of the 20th cent. Examples would be AMO F-15, NAMI -1, RUSSO-BALT 12/15, CM3-C3A micro car which was later years...

Hi Bob (bobp), I remember your thread related to a Cuban Packard, illustrated by artfully colored book pages. I hope to find the right words to say that this time your source is not well informed.
AMO F-15 was a licenced copy of a FIAT 15. Nami-1, an experimental car on the basis of a Czech Tatra 12 was built to explore the needs of an own fabrication line (machinery, industrial standards etc.) by the Soviet institute for scientific research NAMI. After developing machines and modelling molds, the Reds instantly used them to produce approx. 400 cars but not as planned in a factory to be build, but in the research institute itself. The mentioned Russo-Balt 12/15 was built in 1910/1911, before Soviet times. CCCP has been founded after October Revolution in 1917.

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...The Moskvitch 400/401 was an Opel. The entire factory was taken from Germany to Russia after the war.

Yes and next to it another 11.000 tons of machinery (wikipedia). The above mentioned CM3-C3A micro cars received their engines from the former German DKW plant (the inscription says "largest motorbike plant in the world").

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Bob, I would hate to sound as having the monopoly on the truth and understand, that undiplomatical statements like "...pretty much every Soviet advancement was tantamount to a loss of competitiveness" invite contradiction.

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