WONDERFUL KRUPP'S.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 504, 11 May 1909, Page 5

WONDERFUL KRUPP'S.

SAVINGS BUREAU. ; EMPLOYEES' GET /FIVE PER CENT. . ■ „ . :■:■■■, V V :i-' . v i >, (OT TFLEOEAPn—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTKiaHT.) I ' (Rec. May 10, 11.50 p.m.) ■' '■ ■■■ Berlin, May 10. ;' In connection with Krupp's works at Essen, tho orcdit balanco of: tho savings bureau has : increased ; in .ten. years from '£6500 to £286,616; 37. por cent.. of the workmen and 59 per cent, of tho clerks have accounts.The interest paid is five per cent.. .■ BRITAIN'S CAPACITY FOR MOUNTINGS. < THE DREADNOUGHT RACE. . 1 According - to'., yesterday's cablegrams, additional .plant is -being instated at. Krupp's, l which will enable the great German firm to equip with: . eleven" Dreadnoughts' annuatly.-, According to recent 'esti-' mates,' Britain's capacity in the way'of gunmountings'- is pnly f equal to' the equipping of eight .Dreadnoughts' annually; so thenew. addition, to should give Essen a" lead; ot, throe. ' . In comparing /British and German constructional plant -in the matter of guns, gun-mount--mgs, armour, etc., the "Daily Mail 6ays that the provision .of heavy -guns is..a difficult inat- . .ter, and' "it 'is doubtful if the .plant iavailable in this country could turn out rapidly weapons ' for, .more than eight Dreadnoughts this year, but the capacity could :.speedily . be, raised to sixteen; '. The only ; ". guii-making plants aTe at Sheffield, Manchester, Elswick,; Woolwich, and' .Coventry; - ,. Gun-mountings are'made. by only a few- firms, : as Woolwich has not plant: for. the' mauhfacture -of modern 12in;'. naval, and 1 here mountings for eight ships' annually- is probably,,;about;.th'e.;limit,;. until the .. various works have expanded' their; capacity for production^yV;:J"---.'-'' *" .." As for armour,.'there were serious delays in^.1897-8,: when' a largo .number .of.'armoured ships -were _laid down,' and,.owing : to .the recent small British : programmes' there is certain to be '..difficulty; until'/^the'.''output has bieu ■ expanded, which' will take time. 1 But as an aver-.ago-'of .eight -large armoured '-ships' was. laid down annually '■ from 1807'•to;, 1902,"f0r a period of :six'..years,.it ; sh'oiild.ibe'possible.'in' the near future to make the armour, for. anything-up- to sixteen ; Dreadnoughts; per;i annum, given any certainty of th'o demand.' . r .,.' i • "As r to;,tho-'provision"of-machinery, there should bo.no 'great difficulty,"oxcept that the output' of : all- the' great'.works,will have to be expanded, and'.tkis will require, time."': Immensity of Krupp's. v .• . .. '" Th'o; immensity.'of •the Essen work's can' best he understood from a few figures. There' aro" CO, departmeifts - mthJOOp , sepai;ate„ machines, 70 vhydrauTic, ' presses'; '400 Vsteam '.boilers, 500 electric" motors, I CSO 'cranes, : 50 locomotives, and : '2500; railway ,'cars >for the firm's. own.- railway system..^,For,communication between tho vari-' : o?w' fdepartments there;are:4o telegraph' stations and 50 miles of Wire and 400 telephone stations ■wUh. 250 miles - of.'wire.';, ■ V - - . ';|lhe,>armo.ur:.made .by. Krupp has long been famous.' ; fifteen-years: ago. the firm discovered the.newr.process:;of;..hardening. steel'-,which is known. by theirjname..' Steel is hardened-under' 'royalty, by-the 'same process -In: England' and- toother: countries, :bqt:until- recently the results obtained were not equal to : Krupp's. 'Tho Teason, was finally discovered' to lio in' this—that : the; Krupp.;ores contained the Tare' metal' vaiui-: aium,;, which ', imparts enormous strength: and resisting power "to armour. • • : ■ - ; "'impenetrable, secrecy tho.-.'doniinant fe'a- 1 ' ture ~of this ..City-, of Steel. ...The workers who are engaged, on, Government orders do.'not talk, and know; outside IhejKrupn works and thei German ' Marine- Department: whether the' new •monster, guns,,being, made for Germany's new. monster shipi-.are of' llinV, : 12in.,'-; or-.-13in. : calibre, ; for all three", calibres are said -to be under.construction." -•?