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vii. manufacturing industries.
The Eskilstuna Industry.
As this town occupies a special position in the iron manufacture of
Sweden, we may here give a few historical and statistical data concerning
it. A wrought iron industry in the real sense of the word arose there
after the year 1771, when the so-called free town of Eskilstuna was
founded and received privilegies. The manufacture of wrought iron was,
until the last few decades, carried on principally by hand in small low
forges, but the products gained a good reputation and were even exported
abroad.
The Tuncifors Factories at Eskilstuna.
The so-called Eskilstuna work, which is specially characteristic for the
town, includes manufactures of iron, steel, and other metals, such as
knives, scissors, hinges, locks, mountings, hooks, and other wrought iron
articles for building purposes, files, hammers, tongs, gimlets, saw-blades,
pitch-forks, spades, household articles, skates, fancy goods, etc. The
Eskilstuna work has, in recent decades, more and more developed into a
great industry, inasmuch as the small forges have had to give place to
large factories. New and improved machines have been acquired, and
during the last ten years alone about twenty new factories have been
established. Among the manufactures which have been added in recent
years may be mentioned household articles of pressed iron, copper, brass,
nickel, and aluminium, automatic blind-rollers, drawing instruments and
cases of compasses, steel for chisels and planes, screw tools, and spiral
drills of American pattern.
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