New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 24, 1925, Page 11

HRUPPS NOW 1§ PEACEFUL PLANT HKelually Beats Swords Tnto Ploughshares Easen, Germany, Aprll 24.—Quan- tity production three years ago of battleship turrets and rapid-fire guns was a feature of the work here of the firm of Friedrich Krupp, once the symbol throughout the world of armament manufacture; today this organization 1s making artificlal geeth and surgical intsruments, Swords, or thelr more hideous mod ern successors, the “Big Bertha" eannon, have literally been beaten into ploughshares. The Krupps now turn out agricultural machinery, rallway engines, automoblle trucks, merchant ships, steel bedges, and a thousand and one smaller things. Artificlal teeth and surgical instru- ments are but two of the many things manufactured In what was once the most formidable armament plant In the world. A striking feature of the transfor- mation is the fact that the change has come about without change of tochnical engineers or skilled work- Srs, In fact. one reason for turning Eight'l,,il,“:l ¢ Buffet, Table and Six Chairsli oy SRee $12900 Eight-Piece French or American Walnut Suite . Ten-Piece French Walnut Suite of Buffet, Table, Server, China Case and Chairs ......... $298-00 Three-Piece t Nachman Spring construction; e “$949 (00 Fine Grand Rapids Hair Filled v . $259.00 Fine Metal Thread Tapestry cnsiractin $295.00 B. C.PORTER SONS Into such activities as watch gnd clock making, moving pleture manu. facturing, and the construction of delicate mechanisms for optical and microscopical Instruments was the consideration that a large skilled workers and englneers use to be engaged in perfecting she dell- |cate mechanisms of rapld-fire guns and the like, These men, after the war, were compelled to turn from in- ‘u-ullng and construeting engines of death to devising machinery for the [advancement of eivilization. Thus new types of turbine engines are be- |ing evolved, Diesel motors are being |tmproved upon, better processes of steel are being experimented with, Is Vast Plant, A word as to the magnitude of {the Krupp plant at Essen; the-arca |covered by the various bulldinbs is almost 300 acres, The private rall- way which connects the various scc. tlons with each other travels nearly five miles from one end of the plant to the other, The largest of the bulldings, that devoted to locomotive construction, covers an area of 800 000 square feet and has a frontag (of 1,6.0 feet. The four hydraulie presses for compressing blocks of each. Some of the smelters employ- |ed for bringing high grade steel to | the melting poinf have a capacity up to 90 tons each. The plant I8 equipped to employ 115,000 men. That was the figure | reached during the peak of war-time | production, and applies to Issen staft of| steel exert a pressure of 4,000 tons | Kiel and in the Ruhr vall Krupps can furnish employ 180,000 men, ! 28,000 Workers, As a matter of fact, however, only 000 workors are now on the pay- Il The Krupps are going through the same readjustments which great numbers of American firms had to face when the war was over, Beforo |the war they were doing a thriving business with 6,000 men employed, If they can got back to the pre-war footing, they will probably, consider |themselves lucky, The Jlmpression made by the |Krupp works today Is a rather deso- |late one, Only in the department devoted to the construction of agri- cultural machinery does the place seem really busy, ent to locomotive each working day, or about 300 r. At present it has orders for only 20 German locomo- tives, and a small number of wood ‘lrm'nh\g engines intended for Brazil, \ip construction is at a low chb, as [the world generally is over-stocked with ships. | Russian Orders, As far as the agricultural ma- |chimery department is concerned, its {present orders are largely of Russian |origin. It will be remembered that in 1923 the Krupp concern signed an reement with the Russian Soviet government by which 67,600 acres of rich soil in the Don region of Rus- sia are to be cultivated under the alone. If one adds other plants, at'auspices of the Krupps. The I\'rupps‘ B. C. 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