In the exposition of the Severodvinsk Museum you can see an unusual German clock: its impressive size suggests that it was not intended for home use. The clock was made in the late 1930s in the German city of Bremen. During the Second World War, they beat off time at the shipyard of the German city of Wilhelmshaven. After the end of the war, thousands of tons of valuable industrial equipment were exported to the Soviet Union from the industrial enterprises of defeated Germany on account of the damage caused.
From 1947 to 1984, the future museum exhibit regularly worked at the checkpoint of workshop No. 4 of plant No. 402 — Sevmash enterprise. In 1947–1948, 45 employees of the plant No. 402 visited shipbuilding yards in Germany on business trips on reparation deliveries. As a result of their activities, the enterprise received a large number of unique power equipment for forging pressing, lifting and transporting. Also brought to the factory were drawing boards, tables, calculating machines, time clocks — items necessary for organizing production and improving timekeeping technologies.
Pay attention to the linkage at the bottom of the structure — its purpose is unusual. This is a control machine (also called a chronograph or chronotype). When moving the lever, the machine fixes the current time - month, day, hour and minute. Factory workers entering or leaving the territory of the enterprise imprint marks on their service cards using the lever mechanism of the clock. Thus, the time worked by them was automatically taken into account. Then the service cards were handed over to the settlement department, and there they calculated wages based on the hours worked.
With the advent of time clocks, inconvenient metal service tags — a characteristic attribute of Soviet enterprises in the 1930s — became a thing of the past. The time clock worked at the factory entrance until 1984. In the early 1990s, the plant’s management donated it to the museum. Industrial equipment from Germany has also been used at factory No. 402 for several decades.
From 1947 to 1984, the future museum exhibit regularly worked at the checkpoint of workshop No. 4 of plant No. 402 — Sevmash enterprise. In 1947–1948, 45 employees of the plant No. 402 visited shipbuilding yards in Germany on business trips on reparation deliveries. As a result of their activities, the enterprise received a large number of unique power equipment for forging pressing, lifting and transporting. Also brought to the factory were drawing boards, tables, calculating machines, time clocks — items necessary for organizing production and improving timekeeping technologies.
Pay attention to the linkage at the bottom of the structure — its purpose is unusual. This is a control machine (also called a chronograph or chronotype). When moving the lever, the machine fixes the current time - month, day, hour and minute. Factory workers entering or leaving the territory of the enterprise imprint marks on their service cards using the lever mechanism of the clock. Thus, the time worked by them was automatically taken into account. Then the service cards were handed over to the settlement department, and there they calculated wages based on the hours worked.
With the advent of time clocks, inconvenient metal service tags — a characteristic attribute of Soviet enterprises in the 1930s — became a thing of the past. The time clock worked at the factory entrance until 1984. In the early 1990s, the plant’s management donated it to the museum. Industrial equipment from Germany has also been used at factory No. 402 for several decades.
