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metal and machine industry.
869
Table 128. Imports and exports of machinery, implements, and instruments
in 1900.80 (A krona = Tio shilling or 0’268 dollar).
I. Not specified
machinery and
implements. 14
A. Motors not electric. 266,591 188,115
B. Operators:
First group1 ....................1.157,034 173,872
Second gronp»..................2,919,448 339,804
Third gronp»....................211,337 439,692
Fourth group4................1,850,180 168,829
Fifth group6....................159,725 5,065
Sixth group»....................2,298,933 721,277
Seventh group’..............210,831 8,464
Eighth group»................1,374,394 57,668
Ninth group»..................1,552,992 6,326,190
Tenth group10................171,011 283,898
Eleventh group11.... 1,290,045 48,174
Twelfth group »............3,687,560 962,198
C. Tools................................935,004 368,415
Total I 18,085,085! 10,091,661
Imports.
Kronor.
Exports.
Kronor.
n. Specified machinery
and implements.14
Engines and squirts16.. 74,535 60,503
Electric incandescent
lamps........................................249,643 67,694
Gas and water-meters.. 225,159 990
Shovels and spades, etc. 62,726 23,771
Sewing and knitting
machines................................1,409,822 111,902
Saws, saw-blades, etc... 111,285 89,510
Railway engines ’»...........553,235 11.000
Velocipedes................................1,846,787 63,955
Steam-engines19..................398,019 1,058,507
Other..............................................50,488 321
Total II 4,981,69911,488,158
III. Instruments. ’
Surgical, etc."........... 625,736 2,432,517
Optical1»................... 769,650 29,015
Musical..................... 1,000,686 i 27,242
Other..............................................245,981 \ 80
Total in 12,642,058 12,488,854
Imports. Exports.
Kronor. Kronor.
The Socknm Mechanical Works Co., Ltd., with foundry, workshops, and
shipyard in Malmö, manufacture steam-boilers, steam-engines, railway-carriages,
men-of-war and merchant vessels, machines for sugar-works, etc., with a value of
products of about 2,700,000 kronor, and employ about 1,000 workmen. The
foundry and the mechanical works were founded by F. II. Kockum 1840/41.
The business was in 1866 taken over by a joint-stock company, which enlarged
it with a shipyard.
The Bergsund Mechanical Works Co., Ltd., owns, besides foundry and works
on Södermalm in Stockholm by the Mälaren, also a slip-dock at Finnboda,
near Stockholm on the Baltic. The Bergsund mechanical factory is among the
oldest in Sweden. It was founded already in 1769 by a Scotchman, Thomas
Lewis, in 1807 passed over to an Englishman, G. D. Wilcke, whose leading
engineer during three years was the famous Samuel Owen. After some change of
1 For production and use of electricity, except physical instruments. — 1 For dressing
of metals. — » For refining of wood and similar materials. — 4 Wood-pulp, paper, printing,
bookbinding, and match-industries. — 6 Leather, india rubber and glue industries and
hatting. — * Textile industry. — T Cereal-mill, oil-pressing, chocolate, bakery, and
comfit-industries. — 9 Sugar, starch, yeast, malt liquor, mineral water, and margarine
manufacture. — 6 Agriculture. Of the import the greatest amount (1,195,115 kronor) goes to
mwing- and reaping-machines, of the export, 5,862,387 kronor to separators, etc. — 10 Stone,
clay, cement, and glass industries and peat preparation. — 11 Lifting and pressing,
blowing-machines included, such as derrick-cranes, lifting-jacks, pumps, etc. — 14 Other purposes
than preceding gronps. — ■» Machinery, implements, and tools not specified in the Customs
tariffs. — 14 In the Customs tariffs specified machines, implements, and tools. — 15
Water-engines and garden-squirts. — 14 The import of locomotives exceptionally that year ran
up to the said amount, because the Swedish factories were not able to execnte all orders
received. — 17 Surgical, mathematical, physical, chemical, and navigation instruments. —
14 Including telescopes, opera glasses, spectacles, barometers, manometers, and
thermometers. — 19 Including steam-boilers; but not locomotives. — Sections I and II in this
Table together correspond to the gToup Machinery, implements, and tools in Table 127,
page 868; and section III to the group Instruments in the same Table.
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