From the wagon train plant to Dalselmash. Pages of the history

The Dalselmash plant history began in 1935, when the wagon train plant workshops were built in very difficult conditions on the taiga and impassable marshes site. On January 1, 1938, the plant was put into operation. His first products were cartwheels and double-horse wagons. In 1939, production of PVE trailers with a lifting capacity of 2.8 tons began. By the beginning of the war, the wagon train plant had become one of the leading enterprises in the town. During the Great Patriotic War, most part of the plant products were sent to the army. In addition, for the front, the factory produced particularly strong boxes for laying shells and cartridges. The hulls of aerial bombs, shells, and mines were cast and processed. In the post-war years, the factory launched mass production of automobile and tractor trailers. In 1960 the RSFSR Council of Ministers transformed it by its decree into the Dalselkhozmash plant, later – Dalselmash, specializing in the production of tracked rice – and silage self-propelled combines. New agricultural machines began to be developed in the design bureau of the plant. Among them were the SKG-4 self-propelled rice harvester, the SKGS-2.6 silage harvester. They were supplied to the Far East and Siberia agricultural consumers, as well as to Ukraine, Kazakhstan, the Baltic States, other Union republics, and to many foreign countries. The company’s rise occurred in 1989, when the plant assembled and sold 3,700 grain and 650 tracked forage harvesters, as well as many spare parts. In 1991 Dalselmash produced 97% of all the country’s tracked combine harvesters. Due to the transition to a market economy, the company transformed into a production association and gradually began to lose its strength and former glory and in 1992 the production of forage harvesters was completely stopped.