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As the result of the reorganization of industrial and construction administrations, the need has arisen for the forming in the industrial establishments of service inspection agencies which could fully satisfy the greater de- mands of the Sovnarkhoz plants for efficient supervision over their measuring equipment and it~ effective repair.

On the advice of the Zaporozh'e State Inspection Laboratory of Measuring Equipment the Sovnarkhoz organ- ized such base laboratories in large industrial centers of Zaporozh'e, Melitopol',and Berdyansk, in the Zaporozh'e plant of thermotechntcal instruments, the Berdyansk "Mayday" plant of linear and angle measuring instruments, and the ~Dneproguergo" group of factories of electrotechnical measuring instruments. At the a~tomobile repair plant a base laboratory is being organized, which will supervise the use of gasoline meters and pumps and repair them.

Difficulties were encountered in organizing these laboratories owing to the lack of premises, trained per- sonnel, and standard test equipment. However, these difficulties were overcome. The work of the "Mayday ~ plant base laboratory can serve as a good example. A special, completely satisfactory building was constructed for it; the laboratory has adjusting, gage, standards, routine measurements,and other departments. The laboratory has all the required measuring equipment, including a measuring machine IZM-10, universal microscope UIM-21, interferometer PIU-2, optical dividing head ODG; horizontal and vertical telescope calipers, and sets of grade III block gages, with glass plates and all the required accessories.

The supervision of the measuring equipment and its repair is carried out according to a schedule approved by the Zaporozh'e State Inspection Laboratory of Measuring Equipment and the nine plants served by the base laboratory.

This anangement resulted from an accurate listing of all the gages and measuring instruments at the said plants thus providing the possibility of estimating the amount of work available for the base laboratory and deter- mining the required personnel.

The laboratory estimated and submitted for approval the cost of maintaining the equipment of the plants. In addition to inspecting and repairing the measurement equipment, the base laboratory advises the factories on various questions of measurements and the use of instruments, and sometimes lends the plants its own instruments for making certain intricate measurements.

The base laboratory has, with the active cooperation of the Zaporozh'e State Inspection Laboratory,devel- oped and brought into service in the plants devices for checking universal microscopes, dial inside calipers, large size micrometers, lever-type caliper gages, devices for simultaneous checking of two clock-type dial gages, etc.

The base laboratory has greatly assisted the "Mayday" plant in discovering the reasons for waste.

The personnel of the base laboratory, competing for the title of the Communist Production Crew, undertook to introduce modern measurement techniques at the plants serviced by it.

* Sovnarkhoz = Council of National Economy -Publisher's note.

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