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New Factory
Opened at Ostersund
L M Ericsson's new factory at
Ostersund was opened on January 17
by Cabinet Minister Rune Johansson
in the presence of representatives of
local authorities of the county, headed
by the Governor, Anders Tottie.
The Telecommunications Administration
was representated by Director
General Bertil Bjurel. and L M
Ericsson by the Chairman of the
Board, Dr. Marcus Wallenberg, and
the President of the Company, Bjorn
Lundvall.
The new factory will replace the
previous plant at Huddinge just south
of Stockholm.
From the opening ceremony: (from right) Dr. Marcus Wallenberg, Minister of the Interior,
Rune Johansson, Director General Bertil Bjurel, Telecommunications Administration, and Mr.
Bjorn Lundvall, President of LME.
The factory at Ostersund
The manufacture at Ostersund will
comprise chiefly ferrite materials for
loading coils, filter coils and transformers,
and also complete loading
coil equipments.
The Ostersund factory is the sole
producer of ferrite components within
L M Ericsson.
Bror Linden in Memonam
Bror Linden
It was with sorrow and a sense of
loss that we received the news of the
death of Bror Linden. In him we have
been deprived of still another pioneer
in the field of line plant construction.
He was one of those who had a share
in the designing of our line plant
construction system and later, as constructional
engineer, in taking it out
into the world.
Bror Linden was born in 1884,
took an engineering degree in 1908.
served as lines engineer at Stockholms
Telefon in the years 1908-1918 and
was assistant director at H. T. Cedergrens
Industri AB from 1919 to 1921.
He thereafter devoted his energy principally
to affairs abroad. From 1922
to 1925 he was Technical Director of
L M Ericsson's operating company in
Poland at that time and built or modernized
the local line plants in several
Polish cities. He then moved to southern
Italy where from 1926 to 1932.
as head of Compagnia Installazioni
Reti Telefoniche (CIRT). he built
local line plants for the account of
SET. After a few years in Sweden,
where he assisted in the cabling of
the Swedish Railways' telephone network
in conjunction with the electrification
of the railways, he went
abroad again, this time to Colombia,
where from 1937 to 1941 he planned
and built the line plant for the City
of Medellin. This was the first large
local line plant of LME type in that
part of the world and was therefore
a reference plant not only for Colombia
but also for neighbouring countries.
From 1941 until he left his post in
1954 he served as Installation Manager
of the Network Department. The
main part of his time was spent on the
leadership from Stockholm of installation
work abroad. He gave generously
of his great fund of experience,
not only to his direct colleagues but
also to the other members of the
department.
All of us elder members of the
company who had the advantage of
knowing Bror Linden will remember
him with a sense of loss as a capable
engineer and a man of great industry,
but perhaps above all as an unusually
positive personality for whom difficulties
existed only to be overcome
and who undertook every task in a
spirit of confidence and good humour.
His memory may fade but will
never be effaced as long as we live.
Gunnar Aberg
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