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band etc. In time the owners incorporated other mechanical works, ship-yards,
and iron works, with the head works at Motala, but were compelled by
unfavourable economic conditions at the end of the eighties to reorganize the
business, when the original works were taken over by the Motala Verkstads Nya
Aktiebolag (1892). The manufacture, which for some years had been on the
decline, now entered on a new phase of activity. The manufacture of
locomotives especially gained ground. Under the present owners, twelve locomotives
per year have been produced, but this branch has developed to such an extent
that the output capacity, has been practically quadrupled, so as to be raised to
about one locomotive a week. In addition to this main product, the works also
manufacture blooms and ingots, bar-iion, rolled wire, thin sheet metal, large
engines for warships and merchant ships, turbines, steamships, railway and other
bridges, various iron and metal castings. The number of employees is 1 000. •
In conjunction with the Lindholmen mechanical works (with slip-dock and dry
dock) at Gothenburg, orders for armoured vessels are executed. The annual
value of production is about 4’26 million kronor.
Locomotive No. 1 000 built by Nydqvist rf- Holm, Trollhättan.
The Carl Holmberg mechanical works at Lund have, in the last few decades,
been worked up from a modest beginning as a repairs workshop to a factory for
industry on a really large scale. The principal products are dairy appliances,
distilling apparatus, brick-making machines, steam engines and cast goods, etc.
The value of the total production is estimated at 800 000 kronor per year, and
the number of workmen is about 250. The same firm also owns the
Armatur-fabrik at Lund, which is the largest of its kind in Sweden for the manufacture
29—133179. Sweden. II.
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