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The Head Office, laboratories and main plant in Stockholm.
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Telefonaktiebolaget L M ERICSSON is office and factory unit there, around 5,000 the parent Company of a globe-encircling factory and office workers carry group of enterprises, one of the great work which Lars Magnus Ericsson start- telephone concerns of the world. It holds ed as a 30-year-old mechanic in 1876 in a a front-ranking position not only in the small shop on Drottninggatan in Stock- field of telephony but in that entire holm.
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technics". In the technical development This new and modern factory is the of this branch, L M Ericsson has earned result of careful planning. It has given its ranking position through its new con- enhanced possibilities for speeding structions and brilliant designs.
technical progress and for co-operation in Since 1941, the address of Telefonaktic- the fields of electrotechnics and precision bolaget L M Ericsson has been Midsom- mechanics, chiefly of course within tele- markransen, Stockholm. In the big, white technics.
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The east wing external stair towers.
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The cast and south wings of the plant, housing offices, laboratories and workshops.
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