Forgings Specialities ings of high permeability for electric purposes, Anti-magnetic steel castings for steering Chrome-nickel steel castings for rollers in crushing mills, capable of standing heavy wear. Forgings. Crank shafts and other shafts, connecting rods, steam turbine rotors and ship's forgings, forged steel billets, drill steel, crowbars, etc. The machineshops of the company possess the very best facilities for machining all kinds of steel castings and forgings, of which special mention should be made of ship's forgings, such as propellershafts, etc. in lengths of up to 12 metres (40 ft). Pressed balls of special manganese steel in all current sizes for crushing mills. FINSPONGS METALLVERKS AKTIEBOLAG (FINSPONG METAL WORKS Co., LTD) STOCKHOLM 1, SWEDEN WORKS AT FINSPONG WIRE, TUBES, SHEETS, RODS etc. of COPPER, BRASS, BRONZE, Dealers in Copper, Zinc, Lead, Tin, and other Metals BANKERS: Aktiebolaget Göteborgs Bank, Stockholm Hambro's Bank Limited, London The National City Bank of New York, New York Finspong is situated about 64 miles from Norrköping, a seaport on the east coast of Sweden and is connected with this harbour by a direct railway line. Goods are there transferred direct from cars into ocean-going steamers. Moreover connected by a branch-line with Norsholm on the Göta Canal, the waterway from the Baltic to the North Sea, whereby shipments can be made from and to the port of Gothenburg. Shipping Conditions Historical Finspong is among the oldest industrial centres of Sweden, its history dating as far back as the fourteenth century, when mining was carried on there. In 1570 iron works were erected and the estate, which then belonged to the Swedish King, was sold in 1641 to the Flemish nobleman, Louis de Geer, who had by that time become a naturalized Swedish subject. Through his activity the works were extended, new manufactures taken up, espe cially that of guns, and the works in every way modernized. In 1627 de Geer started the making of brass, but confined this to his establishments at Norrköping. The works, however, remained in the hands of the heirs of de Geer until 1856, when the very large domain of Finspong was acquired by its then administrator, Carl Ekman, the well known industrialist. In 1855 all rights were transferred to a joint stock company, A.-B. Finspongs Styckebruk (gun-facto ry), in which Ekman acted as Office and Works at Finspong The head-office of the company is at Stockholm, where all buying and selling is cen- Organization tralized, while the technical part is entirely left to the engineering department at Finspong. The Finspong works produce all kinds of half finished products, such as: Copper, Manufactu ring scope Zinc, Aluminium, Tin, Lead, Bronze, Brass, and other alloys in which any of these metals are constituent parts. The shops are equipped with machines and furnaces of the latest designs and have excellent transport facilities. Though the works may not be among the largest of their kind in Europe, it can safely be claimed that they are among the best equipped. Special attention is given to the manufacturing of qualities suited to each special purpose. At the same time the works endeavour to produce |