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METAL AND MACHINE INDUSTRY.
879
The Halda Watch Factory.
of considerable advantage, inasmuch as the agitation and disquietness
and the annoyances, which often arise between employer and workmen
in countries with a more concentrated machine-industry, are with us of
scarce occurrence and more easily settled, as a rule without leaving
deeper traces of dissatisfaction or indignation.
As examples of manufactures in which Swedish factories have
shown themselves able to take up competition with the foremost ones
of foreign countries, we may mention the following, though the list is
by no means complete. Among those that we are going to mention,
are several founded on Swedish inventions, as de Lavals separators
and steam-turbines, Salenius’ radiator, Jonas Wenstrom’s threephased
dynamo, the small portable petroleum-stove »Primus», Hult Brothers’
rotatory steam-engine, the Svea velocipede, and many others.
Steamers: * Bergsund and Stora Varfvet (Stockholm), Kockum (Malmö),
Motala, Lindholmen, Göteborgs mekaniska verkstad, Eriksberg and Torskog
(Gothenburg), Oskarshamns mekaniska verkstad, Karlstads mekaniska verkstad,
and Jönköpings mekaniska verkstad. — Railway engines: Trollhättan, Motala,
Atlas, Helsingborgs mekaniska verkstad. — Portable engines: Munktell
(Eskilstuna), Torp (Moeda), Kristinehamns mekaniska verkstad, Vulcan (Norrköping),
* English for 8orne Swedish expressions often used below: Aktiebolag = joint-stock
company. Mekanisk verkstad = mechanical works. Gjuteri = foundry. Fabrik = factory.
Bruk = iron works. Järnverk - iron works.
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