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x. manufacturing industries of 8wedbn.
From the Bofors Works.
From the above, which only concerns the conditions at some few of the
larger establishments, it will, however, be seen that, within the country
everything can be manufactured that is nowadays employed in the
way of machines and tools, etc., of what name and use it may be,
either in war or peace, from large battle-ships and the heaviest guns to
the smallest tool-making machines and tools for the refining of metals,
wood, textile articles, etc., and for agriculture. In fact, there are
only very few articles which are not manufactured in the country. As
examples of such we may mention spinning-machines and power-looms,
etc., within the textile branch, large printing-machines, calendering and
cotton-printing machines, and some few others.
The difficulties which Swedish machine-industry has to overcome,
are firstly the previously mentioned, or the lack of mineral coal and
cheap cast-iron; then the fact that, owing to the great extension of
the country, the number of mechanical works, particularly repairing
works, has grown larger than is required, on account of which the
competition has become keener, so much the more as most of our works
do not intend export of their wares to foreign countries. The fact that
our metal industry is thus divided on a large number of often small
workshops and factories scattered over a wide area, is in social respect
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