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metal and machine industry.
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From the Motala Mechanical Works.
exercise a great activity in manufacturing air-stoves, ventilators, refrigators, pnmps,
steam fire-engines, etc. The yearly value of production is about 1,000,000 kronor;
the number of workmen exceeds 400.
The Falnn Carriage factory and the Södertelje Works exercise a great
manufacture of railway and tramway carriages; the latter factory also produces
motors and motor-cars.
The activity of above mentioned establishments is, nearly
without exception, directed to manufactures which are not to be subjected
to any further manipulation, but have to be considered as completed
products, and the same applies to most of the so-called mechanical
•works, of which the above-mentioned only can be considered as some
few of the most important. Besides these, there are many
establishments, which, together with mechanical workshop business, also carry
on business in the shape of extraction of metals from the ore and their
first refining processes. These establishments, usually called iron works,
brass-forges, etc., mostly possess large woods and landed properties, etc.,
besides which their mechanical works often are of greater importance
than many of the real mechanical works of the country. As examples
of such establishments, we will here mention some few.
Domnarfvet, in the parish of Stora Tuna, at the Bergslagernas railway and on
the river Dalelfven, about 20 kilometers from Falun in Dalarne. These iron Works,
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