Factory and industrial management . o 04Od,O n (Co » CO o fao «o l-H MMH 692 INDUSTRIAL SWEDEN. ^3. PART OF THE WORKMEN S VILLAGE, SANDVIKEN. Power is furnished by 68 boilers and 24 steam engines aggregating3,800 horse power, eight hydrauHc turbines of 700 horse power, and122 dynamos, the last deriving their electric energy from a waterfallsome 30 miles distant from the works. The blast furnaces are fedexclusively with charcoal, their annual consumption being 25,000 tons.Prominent among the specialities of this works may be mentionedhollow puddled blooms for weldless-tube making, of which Sand
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Factory and industrial management . o 04Od, O n (Co » CO o fao «o l-H MMH 692 INDUSTRIAL SWEDEN. ^3. PART OF THE WORKMEN S VILLAGE, SANDVIKEN. Power is furnished by 68 boilers and 24 steam engines aggregating3, 800 horse power, eight hydrauHc turbines of 700 horse power, and122 dynamos, the last deriving their electric energy from a waterfallsome 30 miles distant from the works. The blast furnaces are fedexclusively with charcoal, their annual consumption being 25, 000 tons.Prominent among the specialities of this works may be mentionedhollow puddled blooms for weldless-tube making, of which Sandvikensupplies two-thirds of the Swedish exports; weldless hot-rolled boilertubes, tyres for railway rolling stock, hammered or hot-rolled steel forfiles, cutlery and various tools, steel for shells and other projectiles, hollowed wire for umbrella frames, pressed steel, spring steel, steelrods and wire, and cold-rolled steel for such purposes as bicycles, saw blades, and writing pens. The perfection attained in manipu.-lating smaller articles may be gathered from the following data:— Length, Wi