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metal and machine industry.
867
development which followed, with us as elsewhere, during the first few
years after the French-German war, or in the beginning of the decade
1871/80. Also then the fires in the furnaces of machine-industry
blazed livelier than ever before, but then this liveliness depended in
much principally on foreign capital, which overflowed when the dams
burst that the war had built against it. Towards the end of the same
decade a decline set in also with us, so that several new-built
establishments had to stop business or change owners, and older and larger
establishments, leading a languishing life, had to be reorganized. The
rise, which in the decade of 1891/1900 entered in our machine-industry,
may also be founded principally on the favourable conjunctures on the
world-market, but it seems though, more than the above mentioned
development, after 1870, to be based on the natural resources of the
country itself and thus can be expected to justify the hope of a longer
subsistence.
Of more remarkable articles which in the official manufacture
statistics are brought together under the two headings Metal works and
Vessels, carriages, machinery and implements — which are not always
so easy to distinguish from each other — the following show the highest
value of production in 19009:
Articles.
Value,
kronor.
Div. metal wares.. 13,066,377
Div. iron wares ... 13,048,129
Railway-carriages1 10,775,801
Vessels and boats.. 10,195,538
Electric machines’ 9,006,926
Dairy machines.... 8,019,693
Nails.................. 5,381,355
Thin-sheet iron8... 4,383,327
Div. steam-engines4 3,301,891
Railway-engines... 3,254,200
Drawn wire......... 2,672,109
Articles.
Value,
kronor.
Pipes.................. 2,632,665
Plate-vessels........ 2,525,714
Tin-wares............ 2,336,335
Steam-boilers...... 2,138,896
Velocipedes.......... 1,764,025
Knives................ 1,514,712
Hob-nails............ 1,421,307
Guns.................. 1,408,480
Eifles................. 1,400,463
Ploughs, etc........ 1,397,998
Projectiles........... 1,326,987
Articles.
Value,
kronor.
Gold and silver».. 1,322,182
Reaping-machines* 1,198,219
Div. motors’....... 1,077,897
Thrashing machines 993,492
Sewing and
knitting-machines ... 923,500
Bobbins.............. 879,299
Saw-blades8......... 792,997
Portable engines.. 704,500
Horse-shoes.......... 603,730
The whole quantity of castings was estimated to no less than
16,094,682 kronor, and operators and implements — of which part are
entered above — were manufactured for a value of altogether 20,634,892
kronor, of which 12,112,639 kronor were for machinery and implements
in the service of agriculture. — Concerning instruments, clocks, and
watches, see page 862 as well as the special articles below.
Concerning the imports and exports of hereunto belonging articles,
a summary is given in Table 127. On the whole this table testifies to
good progress for our metal and machine-industry, although the imports
are, however, still considerably preponderant. The enormously increased
machine import in the latter half of the nineties is one of the often
recurring testimonies of the strong industrial rise of these years.
’ Including tramway-cars. — s Dynamo-machines, telephones, telegraph-apparatus, etc.
— * Including sheet-iron. — 4 Except locomotives and portable engines. — 6 Wares of. —
• Including sowing machines. — ’ Gas, mineral oil, caloric engines, etc. (steam-engines not
included). — 8 Including material for saw-blades. — 0 A krona = 1-10 shilling = 0’268 dollar.
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