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x. manufacturing industries of 8wedbn.
joint-stock company of Lindholmens Verkstads Aktiebolag. Superintended by Carl
Norrman and later by Sven Almqvist, the works have grown successfully to
become a large shipbuilding yard of first order. Objects of manufacture are:
ironclads, torpedo- and gunboats, passenger- and cargo-steamers of all sizes, steam-engines
and boilers, likewise repairing of them, etc. Value of production about 1,800,000
kronor. Number of hands at present about 700.
The Munktell Mechanical Works at Eskilstuna were founded in the beginning
of the decade 1831/40, by Johan Teofron Munktell, by and by developed, and in
1859 were completed through the building of the Klosterström foundry. At this
factory steam-engines for large industrial works have been manufactured, the first
Swedish railway locomotive, the first home-made machines for rifle manufacture on
a large scale, machines for wood- pulp manufactories, etc. At present the principal
manufacture is portable engines, steam-boilers, thrashing-mills,
steam-dredging-machines, tool-machines, etc. Value of production about 1.600,000 kronor per
annum. The number of hands amounts to about 550.
The Motala Mechanical Works.
Stora Varfvet (The Southern Dockyard) in Stockholm, belonging to the V.
Lindberg factory and dockyard joint-stock company in Stockholm, was founded by
William Lindberg in 1853, who then took over »the Great Shipyard of the
town», which is still rented by the new company, that besides owns properties
at Tegelviken near Stockholm. The company owns a floating dock and the
business includes everything that concerns the building and repairing of iron-vessels,
lighters, steam-engines, boilers, lifting-jacks, pumps, etc. that can be considered
to belong to a mechanical factory and dockyard business. The total yearly value
of production is about 1,500,000 kronor. The number of hands 550.
The Karlstad and Kristinehamn Mechanical Works, owned by a joint-stork
company at Karlstad, manufacture steam-launches, turn-benches for iron
rolling-mills, machines for wood-pulp and paper industry, portable engines, railway
carriages and other railway material, etc., with a production value per annum
amounting to about 1,500,000 kronor for the two establishments. The number
of workmen is about 500.
The Ludvigsberg Mechanical Works in Stockholm, founded in the middle of
the nineteenth century by <S. L. Lamm, now owned by a joint-stock company, also
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