THE GREAT KRUPP WORKS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 242, 11 October 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE GREAT KRUPP WORKS.

The Essen steel works, says "Engineering," form the kernel of the eight establishments of the firm of Friedrich Krupp, which employs altogether 43,000 men—-24,500 at Essen— upon whom a population of 147,645 depends. The other chief shops are the steel works at St. Annen, in Westphalia; the Gruson Works, near Magdeburg; and the Germania-Werft, at Kiel; and blast-furnaces, colleries, and mines. The Essen works alone have 513 steam engines, aggregating 44.000 horse-power, 5300 machine tools, 141 steam hammers, 363 electric motors, 72 cranes of 150 tons capacity as a maximum, 111 kilometres of rail track, 44 locomotives, etc. The Martin steel works date from 1900; the armour-plate department has hydraulic presses of 6000 tons; the two Bessemer works, of 1861 and 1864; the steam hammer Fritz, whose block of 50 tons makes a free fall of 11. ft, and is served by four cranes, two of 50 tons and two of 20 tons capacity. The foundations of this monster have not been renewed since 1861. The following contributions were made in the ten years 1890 to 1900, to the welfare funds: By the staff (in round numbers), £100,000; by the men, £550.000; by the firm, £1,350 000. The firm gave in 1900, for obligatory invalid and insurance funds, nearly £80,000, for voluntary benevolence, about as much, making a total of almost £170,000 in one year.