Only about thirty per cent of the site's clinic and the Welfare Office.
is taken up by build- 1,076,000 sq. ft.
clinic.
var-
This floor also contains the research
a lecture iibrary and
hall with some ious topics is given to different personnel seventy seats where information on
and visiting groups. An exhibition room
The plant has been laid out in their children under fifteen years of age "L. M's" employees, their wives, and ings. a big one-storey building for the heavy
as well
as the firm's pensioners, enjoy industry, a three-storey building for the light industry (the latter building also free medical treatment in this modern where practically all the products of the houses directors' offices, general office,
LM Ericisson group are on exhibit and and some laboratories on its uppermost floor), and lastly a laboratory and office lighter work, coiling and assembly areas. FACTUAL SUMMARY
The second floor contains shops for can be demonstrated is also included. building of eight storeys. The 237-feet In these bright roomy premises many wo- tower, one of the highest points in Stock-
men are employed. To make it possibie holm, has been built in direct commu- for mothers with small children to carry nication with the laboratory. This tow-
on their work, the factory has set up four er, soaring into the sky above the factory "day homes" in the immediate vicinity of building, can be seen from miles around the factory. In these, the children are and is used for experiments with radio cared for by trained nurses and have con-
tinuous medical attention.
waves.
The western part of the factory area is taken up by the boiler house, cabinet- making department, and storage space.
The machine shop of over 16,000 sq. yds. in area, comprises all the elementary departments such as the smithy, the tool department, the automatic lathe depart ment, etc. Here also are a few depart- ments where the parts are subjected to further treatment such as drilling, mill- ing, nickel-plating, and enamelling.
The firm
was established in 1876 by Lars Magnus Ericsson and was constitut- ed
a corporation with a capital of 1,000,000 kronor in 1896. Today, it has a capital of 122.341,870 kronor.
as
The erection of this factory at Midsom- markransen was begun in March of 1936 and completed in November of 1940.
On the third floor are located the of fices and one of the largest drawing of-
The tower of the laboratory building, fices in Sweden, with space for 185 added in 1949, is one of the highest points draughtsmen, In the spacious, well in Stockholm, reaching 237 feet into the equipped research laboratories energetic air with its 49-feet telescoping mast, the vork is devoted to the testing of new top of the mast being 409 feet above sea ideas for continuously improving produc- level. tion. Ideas and suggestions are tested, The entire site covers about 1,076,000 altered, and tested again. Here you will sq. ft., and the factory itself contains. find L M's silent room" where the trans- about 840,000 sq. ft. of floor space. mission accuracy of the telephone is mca- sured. In this dead quiet all echoes have been exiled, and no sounds from the outer world can enter. On the same floor is Apart from workshops and storage
the tropical roon" where a temperature the ground floor of the three of 104° F. and 100% humidity are main storey building also houses the shipping tained, This artificial climate is more department and a reception hall, open to terrible than that of the jungle and in all the firm's employees and their families, it various materials and surface treat and which communicates with the medical ments are tested for hard tropical service.
The restaurant department with its large airy lunch rooms for the personnel is also on the ground floor.
rooms,
SPECIAL LIGHTING SYSTEM FOR
An indirect cornice lighting system
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The restaurant Sweden's largest can accommodate 1,800 persons at a time.
The stocks of raw material received annually total 4,200 metric tons, made up of more than 8,000 types of goods.
The lathe department's 200 machines produce about 150 million parts and the press shop an additional 130 million every year.
NEW OFFICES
80W hot cathode fluorescent tubes housed in a prefabricated plaster cornice which is moulded to walls and beams. The reception desk, in the corner of the entrance hall, is illuminated by three circular recessed tungsten fittings, the pierced metal skirts of which have been finished in real bronze to match the canopy in- to which they are fitted. A larger recessed fitting of similar design lights the entrance lobby.
For lighting the corridors leading from the entrance hall, a system has been developed which employs de- corative angle type fittings. These are mounted in the angle formed by the ceilings and side walls, thus ob- viating the use of ceiling fittings and allowing for the provision of domes which provide natural lighting.
In the drawing office which occu- pies a large part of the new office block, an average illumination level of 30 lumens per square foot is pro- vided by G.E.C. standard twin tube 5 ft. 80w. Perspex trough reflector fit- each side of the drawing boards to tings. The fittings are situated at avoid specular reflection from hand pencil lines.
The system has been evolved by is a feature of the entrance hall of collaboration between the architect the new offices of J. Stone & Co., Elliott Cox & Partners, The General (Deptford) Ltd., at Crawley, Sussex. Electric Co. Ltd., which supplied the The new offices form an important lighting installation throughout part of the first stage of the exten- building and Drake & Gorham (Con- All these special lighting fittings sion of the firm's premises, which tractors) Ltd., the electrical con- are obtainable from The British has now been completed.
tractors. It comprises Osram 5 ft. General Electric Co., Ltd.
the
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