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Forgings

Specialities

ings of high permeability for electric purposes, Anti-magnetic steel castings for steering
turrets of submarines.

Chrome-nickel steel castings for rollers in crushing mills, capable of standing heavy wear.
Brake-shoes of semi-steel; All-steel Anvils, etc.

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.
Shrapnel shells and explosive projectiles.

FINSPONGS METALLVERKS

AKTIEBOLAG

(FINSPONG METAL WORKS Co., LTD)

STOCKHOLM 1, SWEDEN

WORKS AT FINSPONG

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WIRE, TUBES, SHEETS, RODS etc. of COPPER, BRASS, BRONZE,
ALUMINIUM

Dealers in Copper, Zinc, Lead, Tin, and other Metals

BANKERS:

Aktiebolaget Göteborgs Bank, Stockholm
Skandinaviska Kreditaktiebolaget, 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

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Historical

View of Finspong in 1780

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

Part of Works in 1923

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

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ry), in which Ekman acted as
managing-director until 1893.
Under Ekman's leadership the
works steadily expanded, so
that the company became
proprietors not only of blast
furnaces, a gun-factory and
rolling-mills, but also owned
vast forests and carried on
farming on a considerable scale.
Finally the administration of
these large possessions was
divided between various com-
panies and the forests sold to
neighbouring paper-mills, while
the manufacture of iron was
left in the hands of Stens Aktie-
bolag, established in 1903. Subsequently the latter sold the greater part of their pos-
sessions to Finspongs Metallverks Aktiebolag, founded in 1913. This brought about a
change in the manufacture, which now embraces all kinds of half finished products of
non-ferrous metals. The company started with a capital of Kronor 1,400,000 which
has successively been increased owing to the extension of business, and now reaches
the figure of Kr. 12,000,000, fully paid up.

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

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Shipment of trolley wire for the Swedish State Railways

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