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vii. manufacturing industries.
Launching of the Iron-clad "Thule", at Finnboda.
and employs 1 000 workmen. The foundry and the mechanical works were
founded in 1840—41 by P. H. Kockum, who enlarged the business with a
shipyard in 1871. The business was taken over in 1873 by a joint-stock company.
Bergsunds mekaniska verkstads aktiebolag, in addition to a foundry and works
at Södermalm in Stockholm, near the Mälaren, also possesses a slip-dock at
Finnboda near Stockholm on the Baltic side of the town. The Bergsund mechanical
works are among the oldest in Sweden. They were founded in 1769 by a
Scotchman, Thomas Lewis, were taken over in 1807 by an Englishman, G. D. Wilcke,
whose leading engineer was for three years the famous Samuel Owen. After
the works had changed ownership several times, they were bought in 1858 by
A. W. Frestadius and gradually worked up to their present high level, under the
direction of the engineer E. A. Oilman. The most important manufactures are
steamships and railway bridges, all kinds of machinery, castings, and sheet metal,
to which have been added in recent years oil motors. Most of the Swedish
state railway bridges are supplied by the Bergsund Works. At the Finnboda
slip-dock armoured vessels are also built. The value of the manufactures of the
Bergsund Works, including the Finnboda slip-dock, amounts to about 3 200 000
kronor and the number of workmen to 1 000.
The Atlas Works. In 1873 this magnificent establishment was founded at
Stockholm, by the Aktiebolaget Atlas, principally for the purpose of
manufacturing railway material, for which there was at that time a large demand, and which
also brought about a rapid development of this company. But when, after some
years, economic conditions changed for the worse, it had to be reorganized and
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