In 1977 dollars U.S. Export-Import Bank loan of 7.9 million and 7 million dollars in private American bank loans were granted for the purchase of tractor Ursus IP Ingersoll Milling Machine from Rockford, Illinois, and Gleason Works in Rochester, New York. However, these investments become ineffective and have failed, leaving Poland with a huge debt.
In 1980, 25 billion dollars was blocked with inefficiency, unfinished projects in industry Angielski, which have been hypothesized to require more than 50 billion dollars complete.
Ursus tractor, was one of the biggest victims of this problem. In 1981, the devices that were acquired in the west of the plant amounts to 3,600 million Ursus. storage space at Ursus was filled with unused, unwanted items such as stocks 1.6 million screws rarely used, for example, production of new warehouse space because they were arrested, of other materials have been done outside the deterioration. Gierek has invested nearly $ 1 billion project to build a model of Massey Ferguson tractor modern Ursus, however, that licensing issues are to be paid, these tractors can be sold is not the West, and can not be sold to the East, because they were too expensive. Production targets and costs of 75,000 tractors per year specification, a description of only 500 were produced.
