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vii. manufacturing industries.

Motor Car from Scania- Vabis.

b) Bessemer works with 4 basic convertors, blasting apparatus, hydraulic power
plant, and Thomas phosphate (basic slag) works (15 000 tons); c) Martin works
with 4 basic Martin furnaces, 2 for 35 tons and 2 for 20 tons, together with
steel foundry; d) rolling-mill department with continuous wire works, 2 medium
works. 2 fine rolling works, 2 universal rolling works, thick and thin sheet
works; e) rolling works for coarser form iron and rails, driven by 2 steam
engines of 6 000 h. p. each. The total annual production is 90 000 tons of
pig-iron, of which 30 000 tons is produced by electric smelting, 75 000 tons of
rolled iron and steel; nail factory, factory for bolts and nuts, etc.; f) workshop
department with foundry; g) charcoal department with 8 coaling furnaces and
a factory for the utilizing of by-products (1 700 tons); annual charcoal
production million hectoliters. The number of workmen is 2 200

The Sandviken iron works, in Gästrikland, were established in 1862, by
Consul O. F. Göransson, who is famous for his successful work in the direction of
rendering the Bessemer process of practical use. The works are now owned by
Sandvikens jernverksaktiebolag and have become known all over the world by
reason of their excellent products. The works at present consist of 4 blast
furnaces, 2 Bessemer furnaces, 7 Martin furnaces, 14 steam hammers, several
rolling mills, four of which are for tubes and turn out 300 tons of tubes per
week, wire-drawing works, manufacture forge, foundry, mechanical works, etc.;
they produce bessemer steel ingot, bar-iron (rolled and forged), tube billets, large
shafts, rolled wire, hoop-iron and horse nail rods, sectional iron and steel, saw
blades, drawn wire, cold-rolled hoop-steel, and various other manufactures, of a
value of about 11 million kronor. The total number of workmen employed is
about 2 500.

The Bofors iron works, situated in the parish of Karlskoga, in Örebro Län,
comprise iron works with 2 blast furnaces, 3 Martin furnaces, 10 Lancashire
forges, 3 rolling mills, manufacture forge and mechanical works, etc. The Bo-

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