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was taken over by the Nya Aktiebolaget Atlas. For many years the principal
manufactures were locomotives and railway carriages, machine tools, steam boilers,
steam engines, hot-water pipes, etc., but the chief products are now
air-compres-sors, pneumatic tools, oil motors, and transport appliances. Among the pneumatic
tools may be specially noted the company’s famous boring machines for mines,
which are used almost exclusively in all mines in Sweden, and in a great
number of mines in other countries. Oil motors are also articles of export. In
addition, bridges are manufactured. The value of the annual production is about
3 20.0 000 kronor and the number of the workmen is 600.
The Bolinder Works, which are now owned by J. & C. G. Bolinders
Mekaniska Verkstads Aktiebolag, were established at Stockholm in 1845, by the
brothers Jean Bolinder and C. G. Bolinder, and, after undergoing steady
development, have risen to be one of the most important establishments of their kind
in the country. In addition to the works at Stockholm, the company owns the
Kallhäll foundry for cooking-ranges and the Bastholmen slip-dock in Bohuslän
for fitting motors in boats. In Stockholm it produces steam engines of all sizes,
petroleum motors, steam-boilers, saw-mills, the famous wood-planing machines, and
cleave-saws made under Westman’s patent, stoves, gas-ovens, iron ranges with
patented safety apparatus, also of the largest sizes for hotels, boilers and other
articles for hot-houses, ornamental castings, etc. The total value of the output
amounted in 1913 to about 9 million kronor, and the establishment employed
1 800 workmen.
The Huskvarna establishment, in the town of the same name, has a long
history. It was originally founded in 1689, for the manufacture of rifles for
the State, but was taken over in 1757 by private persons, since when it has
undergone various changes; it is now owned by the Huskvarna Vapenfabriks
Aktiebolag (1867).] LThe principal manufactures are sewing machines, cycles,
Röck Drills (Nya Aktiebolaget Atlas, Stockholm).
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