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metal and machine industry.
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State railway-bridges are supplied by the Bergsund mechanical works. At Finnboda
slip-dock iron-clads are also built. The value of products for the Bergsund
mechanical works together with the Finnboda slip amounts to about 2,400,000
kronor yearly, and the number of workmen to about 1,200.
The Atlas Works. This magnificent establishment was founded in Stockholm in
1873, principally for the manufacture of locomotives and other railway-material,
for which there was a large demand at that time, and which also caused a verv
rapid development of the business. But when, after some years, the conjunctures
became bad, it bad to be reorganized, and the new joint-stock company, which
took over the Atlas works in Stockholm, has ever since shown much vitality.
Objects of manufacture are locomotives and other railway and tramway-material,
tool-machines, steam-boilers, and steam-engines of up to several hundred
horsepower, apparatus for bathing- and laundry-establishments, parts of hot-air conduits,
etc. The value of products is about 3,000,000 kronor per annum, and the
number of workmen about 800.
Huskvarna.
The Bolinder Works, which are now owned by J. & C. G. Bolinder’s mechanical
Works Co., Ltd., were founded 1845, in Stockholm, by the brothers Jean and
C. G. Bolinder, and has now, after a steady development, risen to be one of
the most important establishments of the country in its branch. Steam-engines
of all sizes are manufactured there, petroleum-motors after the Weyland patent,
steam-boilers, saw-mills, tool-making machines of different kinds, highly praised
wood-planing machines, and cleave-saws after the Westman patent, stoves, ranges
with patented safety apparatus, even of the largest size for hotels and large
passenger steamers, boilers and other material for conservatories, ornamental
castings, etc. — The whole yearly value of production amounts to about 2,600,000
kronor, and the establishment employs about 900 hands.
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