Factory and industrial management . ilders, about 900 workmen; Carl Holmbergs mechanical works,Lund, manufacturing dairy Implements, peat and brick-making ma-chinery, steam engines and castings; the Huskvarna works, employ-ing about 1,200 hands in the manufacture of sewing machines,bicycles, stoves and other cast articles; the Karlstad and Kristlnehammworks, manufacturing machinery for pulp and paper mills, turbines,railway material, steam boilers, etc., about 750 hands; the Ludwigs-berg works, Stockholm, mining and refrigerating machinery, pumps, INDUSTRIAL SWEDEN. 68s air compressors, fire e
Factory and industrial management . ilders, about 900 workmen; Carl Holmbergs mechanical works,Lund, manufacturing dairy Implements, peat and brick-making ma-chinery, steam engines and castings; the Huskvarna works, employ-ing about 1,200 hands in the manufacture of sewing machines,bicycles, stoves and other cast articles; the Karlstad and Kristlnehammworks, manufacturing machinery for pulp and paper mills, turbines,railway material, steam boilers, etc., about 750 hands; the Ludwigs-berg works, Stockholm, mining and refrigerating machinery, pumps, INDUSTRIAL SWEDEN. 68s air compressors, fire engines, etc.; Motala works, locomotive andsteamship builders, land and marine steam engines and boilers,bridges, pumps, turbines, hydraulic machinery and rolling-mill prod-ucts; the Munktell works, Eskilstuna, steam engines, boilers andpumps, saw and grinding mills, peat machinery, dredging plant, cranesand machine tools; and Nydquist and Holm, Trollhatte, locomotives,turbines, bridges, water-works machinery, etc., about goo A TYPICAL FACTORY. MUNKTELls MECHANICAL WORKS, ESKILSTUNA. No apology need be offered for devoting particular space andattention to Eskilstuna and the so-called Eskilstuna industry. Thetown, in the first place, demands notice as the most perfect type ofmanufacturing centre to be found in Sweden, rivalling, in this regard,even Boras and Norrkoping, the principal seats of the textile interests are, and have ever been, essentially industrial, and theirgrowth and expansion are in an eminent degree symbolical of thewider movement and national development on which it has been mypurpose to centre attention. Even its very origin is an object lessonfor today, for there can be no doubt that it was the presence of thepowerful waterfalls which serve to unite the great lakes Hjalmarenand Malaren that first led far-sighted men of long ago to believe thathere was the ideal location for a purely industrial town. To createthis was one of the peaceful am
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