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x. manufacturing industries of 8wedbn.
Huskvarna, on the river of the
same name, near Jönköping, dates
from long ago. Originally it was
founded (1680) to be a State
rifle-manufactory, but was in 1757 made
over to private persons and has
since experienced several changes,
till it now is owned by a
joint-stock company (1867). The
manufacture principally consists in
sewing-machines after the Singer system
with alterations and improvements,
bicycles, shooting-rifles, stoves, and
other cast articles. The yearly value
of products is about 2,900,000
kronor, and the number of hands
about 1,100.
The Trollhättan Foundry sad
Mechanical Works, at the celebrated
Trollhättan falls, the first real
locomotive factory of Sweden, were
founded in 1847, principally for the
manufacture of castings, etc., for
mills, saw-mills, mining, etc., as well
as turbines, which last article still
continues to be a specialty of this
factory. Under the firm of Nydqvist db Holm, they rapidly developed, and in
the beginning of the decade 1871/80 the manufacture of locomotives was
introduced, which has remained another specialty for the establishment. The worts
will nowadays be able to turn out one locomotive a week. A good deal of
tool-machines used in the fabrication are made at the factory itself. Besides turbines
and locomotives also pump-works for the water-conduits of towns, iron bridges,
etc., are manufactured there. The yearly value of products is about 2,000,000
kronor and the number of hands about 800.
The Motala Mechanical Works, at one time the largest industrial
establishment in Sweden, situated at the point where the Göta Canal discharges itself
into lake Vettern, were founded in 1823 by the Göta Canal Company under the
supervision of the Englishman Daniel Fraser, rapidly developed under skilful
management, and were fitted out with the best tool-making machines for
manufacture in nearly all branches of iron-refining, as merchant-steamers, men-of-war,
dredging-macbincs, locomotives, steam-boilers, wheels for railway carriages,
sheet-iron, shapes, rails, wheel- and cannon-bands, etc. During the time the owners
also incorporated other mechanical works, shipyards, and iron-works with the chief
business at Motala, but were obliged, owing to unfavourable conjunctures, in the
end of the decade 1881/90 to reorganize the business, when the original works
were taken over by a new joint-stock company (1892). The manufacture, which
some years previously had been languishing, has now entered on a new phase of
high briskness. Especially the locomotive manufacture has gone forward. This
was commenced already in 1861; it is true that, in 1865, it was abandoned, but
ten years later it was again taken up. Under the present owners, the
manufacture has amounted to an average of 12 locomotives per annum, but has of låte
increased so much that at present it will have reached a four-double capacity
of delivery, or of one locomotive a week. At the side of this chief product, there
are blooms and ingots manufactured, as well as bar-iron, rolling-wire, thin sheet-
Huskvamia Sewing-machine.
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