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METAL AND MACHINE INDUSTRY.
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The so-called Eskilstuna work, especially characteristic for that town,
comprises manufactures of iron, steel, and other metal, as knives, scissors,
hinges, locks, mountings, hooks, and other wrought iron articles for
building purposes, files, hammers, tongs, gimlets, saw-blades, pitch
forks, spades, house-implements, skates, fancy-goods, etc. The Eskilstuna
work has during the last decades more and more developed into great
industry, inasmuch as the smithies have been obliged to yield to large
factories. New, improved machines have been procured and, only during
the last ten years, about twenty new factories have arisen. Among
manufactures made of låte we may mention household articles of pressed
iron, copper, brass, nickel and aluminium, automatic blind-rollers,
drawing-instruments and cases of compasses, chisels and steels for planes,
rounders and screw augers of American model.
The Tunnfors factories at Eskilstuna.
Owing to the efforts of the manufacturers to keep their products
on a level with increasing claims on nice appearance and good quality,
the country’s demand for aforesaid goods can nowadays be satisfied by the
home-manufacture. A considerable amount of finer wrought iron articles
was formerly imported, especially from Sheffield and Solingen.
Eskilstuna has also, and not without reason, been called the Sheffield of Sweden.
The present extent of the metal industry in Eskilstuna and its
suburbs (Fors and Kloster) will be seen by the following figures. In 1900
the whole number of factories in question amounted to 105, employing
a total of 3,496 workmen, and manufacturing for a value of more than
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