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X. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES OF SWEDEN.
mejerik&rlsfabrik (Nyköping). Calefaeton and heating-stoves of excellent quality
are made by many of the larger foundries.
Many of the above industrial branches have developed during the
last twenty years and got prizes awarded for their products at world’s
exhibitions. Their list could be considerably increased, but from the
above it is sufficiently proved that the Swedish machine industry
already has gone very far in specialising its work. In this respect it
is also pleasing to note that fabrication is embraced with increasing
interest both at new and old iron-works, so that many of them supply
horse-shoes, horse-nails, nails, chains, steel-ropes, wire, shafts, and all
sorts of rolling-mill and wrought iron products of excellent quality.
The General Sicedish Electric Company, Ltd , at Vesterås.
The Eskilstuna Industry.
As this town occupies a special position in the iron manufacture
of Sweden, we may here give some historical and statistic dates
concerning it. A wrought-iron industry, in the real sense of the word,
arose there after 1771, when the so-called free-town of Eskilstuna was
founded and privileged. The manufacture of wrought iron was up to the
last decades carried on principally by hand and in small smithies, but
it gained a good reputation and soon found a market even abroad.
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