Tashkentsky Traktorny Zavod
| Ташкентский тракторный завод (ТТЗ) Tashkentsky Traktorny Zavod (TTS)
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State company , later privately owned with an unknown legal form |
| founding | 1942 |
| resolution | 2014 |
| Reason for dissolution | insolvency |
| Seat | Tashkent , Uzbekistan |
| Branch | Tractor and mechanical engineering |
The Taschkentski Traktorny Sawod , German Tashkenter Tractor Plant , TTS for short ( Russian Ташкентский тракторный завод , ТТЗ for short) was a former Soviet and later Uzbek manufacturer of tractors and agricultural machinery. The company, founded in 1942, was based in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent . In 2014 it was declared bankrupt and then reorganized. The remnants are now combined with various other agricultural companies from Tashkent in a holding company .
Company history
The plant was founded in 1942 under a different name in connection with the Second World War as an armaments company. In particular, ammunition of various types was produced: bombs, mines and projectiles for grenade launchers. In 1944, the factory was rebuilt and from then on various consumer goods were manufactured, as well as equipment for the food industry. From 1950 agricultural machines were produced for the cotton cultivation widespread in Uzbekistan . Starting in 1956, trailers for tractors were also built, with series production only beginning in 1959 and wood still being used for construction.
In 1960 and 1961, spare parts were made for the GAZ-51 truck , in particular, crankshafts , camshafts and gears. In addition, a new type of trailer was introduced and put into series production.
It wasn't until the end of 1969 that the company began developing and then manufacturing tractors. A modernized model variant with only three wheels for cotton cultivation was developed based on the T-28 tractor . By 1972 the plant, now known as Tashkentski Traktorny Sawod (TTS), took over tractor production from the Uzbekski Traktoro-sborotschny Sawod (Russian Узбекский тракторо-сборочный завод, translated Uzbekistan tractor assembly plant). The assembly plant, also located in Tashkent, had been building very similar cotton tractors based on the DT-24 and T-28 since the late 1950s , both vehicles originally being produced in Vladimirsky Traktorny Sawod , Russia .
In the literature there is always the statement that Uzbekski Traktoro-sborochny Sawod and TTS are the same company and only one renaming has taken place. However, the former Uzbekski Traktoro-sborochny Zavod contradicts this information itself. In contrast to TTS, the plant still exists in Tashkent today and has been manufacturing other agricultural equipment since it ceased to produce tractors in 1972. It currently trades as Tashkentski Agregatny Sawod . From 1972 at the latest, TTS was the only plant that built tractors in Tashkent. Various versions of the T-28 for cotton cultivation ran off the production line by 1995, with a total of almost 700,000 copies made.
In addition, from 1977 TTS began a cooperation with the Minski Traktorny Sawod from Belarus . From the MTZ-80 , which was mass-produced there, a special model with only three wheels for cotton cultivation, the MTZ-80Ch, was made in Uzbekistan. The MTZ-50Ch was also built in Tashkent, a similarly converted MTZ-50 .
After the collapse of the Soviet Union , various ordinary four-wheeled tractors were also built in Tashkent, which were no longer specifically intended for cotton growing. This is how new models were created with an output of 60 or 80 hp.
From 2010 there was a cooperative with the German agricultural machinery company Claas and new production plans. However, the plant was declared bankrupt in 2014. In the course of this, the remnants of the plant with the Tashkentski Agregatny Sawod and another plant from Tashkent were transferred to a holding company.
The tractors from Tashkent were exported to many countries, including the western world. They came to Greece , Egypt , Sudan and Turkey , among others .
Products
The factory made very different products at different times. The following list is only intended to provide an overview.
- 1942–1944: Ammunition for the Red Army in World War II
- 1944–1950: Consumer goods and equipment for the food industry
- 1950–2014: Various agricultural implements, especially machines for growing cotton and trailers
- 1960–1961: Truck spare parts for the Soviet GAZ-51
- 1969-2014: tractors, including in particular:
literature
- Uwe Siemer: Tractors from the Soviet Union. A chronicle from the beginning until 1990. TRAKULA, Rastede. Without ISBN, around 2015.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h History of Tashkentsky Traktorny Sawods (Russian)
- ↑ a b c d e f Uwe Siemer: Tractors from the Soviet Union. A chronicle from the beginnings to 1990. P. 57 f.
- ↑ a b History of Tashkentsky Traktorny Sawods (Russian) ( Memento from January 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c Company website of today's Tashkentsky Agregatny Sawods (Russian)
- ↑ Announcement about the bankruptcy and the beginning liquidation of the plant in 2014 (Russian)
- ↑ Further information on the liquidation and the following change of name ( Memento from December 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)