The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-05-21
KRUPPS NOW MAKING
ARTIFICIAL TEETH
Scientific instruments Have
Replaced Gun Products.

Essen, Germany. Quantity produc-
ton three years ago of battleship tur~
rets and rapid-tire guns was feature
of the work here Of the firm Of Fried
rich Krupp, once the symbol through
out the world Of armament manufac-
ture; today this organization ls maxi
ing artificial teeth and surgical instru-
ments
Swords, or their more hideous mod
ern successors, the big Bertha" can
non, have literally been beaten Into
plowshares. The Krupps now turn out
agricultural machinery. railway en-
gines. automobile trucks, merchant
ships. steel bridges. and thousand
and one smaller things
Artificial teeth and surgical snsfrn-
ments are but two of the many minor
articles manufactured n what WAS
once the most formidabIe arfnhthent
plant in the world.
Use Same staff.
striking feature Of the transfor-
nation is the fact that the change has
come about without change Of techni-
cal engineers or skilled workers.
In fact, one reason for turning into
such activities as watch and clock
making, moving picture manufactur-
ing, and the construction of delicate
mechanisms for optical and micro
scopical instruments, was the consid-
Grafton chat a large staff of skilled
workers and engineers used to be en-
gagged In perfecting the delicate
mechanisms of rapId-hring guns and
the like
These men, after the war, were COM
PEELED to turn from inventing and con-
structing engines Of death to devisinR
machinery for the advancement OF
civilization Thus new types Of turbine
engines are being evolved. Diesel mo-
tors are being improved upon. better
processes OF making steel are being
experimental with.
A word as to the magnitude OF tho
Krupp plant at Essen: The area COW
cred by the various buildings is al
most 800 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 buildings. that
devoted to locomotive construction.
covers an area Of 100000 square feet
and has a frontage of 1,64o feet. The
The four hydraulic presses for com
pressing blocks Of steel exert pres
sure Of 1000 tons each. Some Of the
shelters employed for bringing high
grade steel to the melting point, have
a capacity up to 30 tons each.
The plant is equipped to employ
$4,000 men. That was the figure
reached during the peak Of wartime
production, and applies to Essen alone.
If one adds other plants. at Kiel and
the Ruhr valley, the Krupps can fur
nish employment to 10000 men.
only $1,000 Now Working.
AS a matter of fact, however, only
$4,000 workers are now on the pay
roll. The Krupps are going through
the same readjustments which great
numbers of American firms had to
face when the war was over. Before
the war they were doing q thriving
business with $4,000 men employed.
II they can get back TO the pFe-waf
footing, they will probably consider
themselves lucky.
The impression made by the Krupp
works today is rather desolate one
Only in the department devoted to tina
construction OF agricultural machin-
cry does the place seem really busy.
The railway locomotive construction
department. for instance, Is equipped
to turn out one locomotive each work
ing day, or about 800 year.
At present it has orders for only
20 German locomotives. and small
number Of woodworking engines, IN
tended for Brazil. Ship construetAsn
Is at a low ebb, as the world gans1
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