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ing breakdown of horsepower in 1949, by
Total Horsepower of all Tractors
diesel-consuming and other fuel consuming
(HP)
10,963,000
tractors, is indicated:
Total Petroleum, All Kinds, Re-
quired (metric tons)
5,956,000
The following breakdown of total petroleum
requirements for 1949 is estimated:
Prewar 1
1949
(In Millions of Metric Tons)
Gasoline
1.2
1.0
1949
3,546,000
7,417,000
10,963,000
Kerosene
4.1
3.0
Diesel Oil
0.2
1.7
Very little diesel fuel in proportion to other
Lubricating Oil
0.4
0.3
fuels was consumed by Soviet tractors in pre-
war days. It is safe to assume that the 0.575
Total
5.9
6.0
metric tons of petroleum consumed per horse-
TABLE I
power by the Soviet tractor would also apply
USSR TRACTOR PARK IN 1949
to the 20 percent of postwar production in
(in units of tractors)
non-diesel tractors as well as in tractors left
1949 2
over from prewar, tractors obtained by requi-
Tractors from prewar production
274,000
sitions, reparations, and from UNRRA and
Tractors obtained by requisitions,
Lend-Lease.
reparations, etc.
25,000
Both American and Soviet experience has
Tractors obtained from UNRRA and
shown that the diesel fuel requirements per
Lend-Lease
10,000
horsepower hour on full or near full load is
Tractors produced in USSR 1945 to
about five-sixths that of kerosene (the com-
1948, inclusive
112,000
mon tractor fuel in prewar USSR) This
Total tractors produced in 1949
would indicate that the factor 0.575 metric
Full-use equivalent of tractors pro-
tons of petroleum should be reduced one-sixth
duced in specified year
31,000
or 17 percent in order to arrive at a weight
of diesel fuel required per horsepower of diesel
Total
452,000
tractors. This means 0.477 metric tons of
TABLE II
diesel fuel per horsepower.
HORSEPOWER OF THE 1949
The following petroleum consumption for
TRACTOR PARK
1949 is thus indicated:
1949
Horsepower of Diesel Consuming
Tractors (HP)
3,546,000
Diesel Consumption per Horse-
power (metric tons)
0.477
Tractors from
Total Diesel Fuel Required (met-
prewar pro-
ric tons)
1,691,000
duction
274,000
20
5,480,000
Horsepower of Tractors Consum-
1 Fuel consumption and breakdown for 1937 and
ing Other Fuels (HP)
7,417,000
1940 is estimated in R&A No. 2516, Domestic Con-
Consumption of Other Petroleum
sumption of Petroleum Products in the USSR, 1945-
per Horsepower (metric tons)
0.575
1952, and cites as references: Wassilief, Soviet Oil
Total non-Diesel Petroleum Re-
Industry in 1938, in 1939, and in the First Six
quired (metric tons)
4,265,000
Months of 1940: COI (OSS) Report No. 58, "The Ef-
fect of Territorial Losses on Russia's Petroleum
Position," 20 May 1942, pp. 27-29.
1
See "O Tipakh Traktorov V Selskom Khozyaistoe
2 See text for explanation of figures.
SSSR," by S. P. Matskevich in Sotsialisticheskoe Sel-
3 From Table I.
skoe Khozyaistvo, No. 12, December 1943.
4 CIA estimate.
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