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woollen industry.
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John Lenning.
abundant supply of water-power. For more than 200 years this town has
been the centre of a flourishing textile industry, which was founded by
Gustavus Adolphus. Drag’s cloth-mills, established in 1810, have a great
and well-deserved reputation for the excellence of their productions. After
being turned into a limited liability Company in 1854, it became,
under the direction of John Lenning (1819—79), the principal business
of its kind in the country. A prominent business man and manufacturer
and a great friend of the workmen, whose conditions he always
endeavoured to improve, he donated at his death nearly the whole of his
fortune to the town of Norrköping for public utilitarian purposes. This
donation led, among other things, to the erection of the school of weaving
in the town in question, which has been called by his name. (Cf. above.)
Among the other larger wool manufactories may be mentioned the Malmö
yllefabrik, Göteborgs kamgarnsspinneriaktiebolag, Aktiebolaget Fors
ullspinneri in Nyköping, Aktiebolaget Skånska yllefabriken in
Kristianstad, the Sahlström fabrik at Jönköping, Wallbergs fabriksaktiebolag
in Halmstad, C. O. Borgs söner in Lund, and several factories in
Borås, among which there are a wool and vigogne spinning-mill, and also
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