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ESSEX, Germany, Apr. 29.—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
smybol throughout the world of ar
manent manufacture; today this or
ganization is making artificial teeth
and surgical instruments.
Swords, or their more hideous mod
ern successors, the "Big Birtha” can
non, have literally been beaten into
ploughshares. The Krupp now turns
out agricultural machinery, railway
engines, automobile trucks, merchant
ships, steel bridges, and a thousand
and one smaller things. Artificial
teeth and surgical instruments are
but two of the many minor articles
manufactured in what was once the
most formidable armament plant in
fhe world.
A striking feature of the transfor
mation is the fact that the change
has come about without change of
technical engineers or skilled work
ers. In fact, one reason for turning
into such activities as watch and
clock making, moving picture manu
facturing, and the construction of
delicate mechanisms for optical and
microscopical instruments was the
consideration that a large staff of
skilled workers and engineers used
to be engaged in perfecting the deli
cate mechanisms of rapid-fire guns
and the like. These men, after the
war, were compelled to turn from
inventing and constructing engines
of deatli to devising machinery for
the advacement of civilization. Thus
new types of turbine engines are be
ing evolved, Diesel motors are being
improved upon, better processes of
steel are being experimented with.
A word as to the magnitude of the
Krupp plant at Essen: the area cov
ered by the various buildings is al
most 300 acres. The private railway
which connects the various sections
with each other travels nearly five
miles from one end of the plant to
the other. The largest of the build
ings, that devoted to locomotive con
struction, covers an area of 800,000
square feet and has a frontage of 1,
640 feet. The four hydarulic press
es for compressing blocks of steel ex
ert a pressure of 4,000 tons each.
Some of the smelters employed for
bringing grade steel to the melting
point have a capacity up to 90 tons
each.
The plant is equipped to employ
115.000 men. That was the figure
reached during the peak of war-time
production, and applies to Essen
alone. If one adds other plants, at
Kiel and in the Ruhr valley, the
Krupps can furnish employment to
180.000 men.
As a matter of fact, however, only
28.000 workers are now on the pay
roll. The Krupps are going through
the same readjustment which great
numbers of American firms had to
face when the war was over. Be
fore the war they were doing a thriv
ing business with 36,000 men em
ployed. If they can get back to the
pre-war footing, they will probably
consider themselves lucky.
The impression made by the Krupp
works today is a rather desolate one.
Only in the department devoted to
the construction of agricultural ma
chinery does the place seem really
busy. The railway locomotive con
struction department, for instance, is
equipped to turn out one locomotive
each working day, or about 300 a
year. At present it has orders for
only 20 German locomotives, and a
small number of wood-burning en
gines intended for Brazil. Ship con
struction is at a low ebb, as the
world generally is overstocked with
ships.
As far as the agricultural machin
ery department is concerned, its pre
sent orders are largely of Russian
origin. It will be remembered that
in 1923 the Krupp concern signed an
agreement with the Russian Soviet
government by which 67,000 acres of
rich soil in the Don region of Russia
are to be cultivated under the aus
pices of the Krupps. The Krupps
have undertaken to put into the ven
ture all the most modern agricultur
al machinery necessary, and to de
velop the region into one vast model
farm.
It is understood that this Russian
venture lies outside the usual activi
ties of the Krupps, which have strict
ly limited themselves thus far to
production within the German Reich,
and have only exported articles that
could be manufactured on German
soil in their own plants.
If the Krupps nevertheless embrak
ed upon a new policy, this was ob
viously done in the hope that Rus
sia may yet prove the richest ex
port field for German industry.
Whether the hope will be justified
remains to be seen.
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