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13 with regard to its practical exploitation for marine and railway purposes. The sea-going motor sliip and the Diesel electric loco- motive constitute part of the Danish industry’s world- known specialities. For a number of years more than half of all the oceangoing Diesel motor ships built in all the world have been provided with Diesel engines of the Danish type. Besides constructing a large number of crude oil and Diesel engines for use in fishing craft, the Danish motor industry is also specializing in large and small stationary plants. Many of the large and small concerns within the Danish macliine industry are based on the manufacture of specialities which are exported to most parts of the world. In addition to those already enumerated may be mentioned for instance laundry machinery, steam kitchen equipment, grinding miils, refuse destruction plants, stoves of various kinds, slieet-iron radiators, railway trucks, mechanical and hydraulic presses, printing ma- cliines, bottling machines, packing machines, road- making machines, machinery for chocolate factories and certain textile machinery. As a natural consequence of the prominent part which shipping has always played for Denmark, an important shipbuilding industry has arisen. Danish yards build aunually for home and foreign owners a considerable number of large ships comprising passenger liners, cargo vessels, fruit carriers, tankships, etc., the greater part of which are equipped with Danish marine diesel engines, electrical steering apparatus, cooling plants and other equipment of Danish manufacture. Also fishing cutters and equipment: auxiliary motors, fishing net winches etc., are manufactured and exported. Concurrently with the unique progress in electrification which has taken place in Denmark, a very considerable electro-technical industry has developed. Among the more important items produced by this industry may be mentioned electro-motors, dynamos, electric wiring, elec­ tric steering^ gear and winches for large motor ships, heavy marine and land cables both power current and telegraph and telephone cables, lifts, radio accessories and parts, telephone equipment, electro-technical porce­ lain etc. etc. The Danish motor car assembling factordes should also be mentioned, as carrying on large scale exports. The cement industry is also very important. Danish cement has found a market in most countries in the world. Also Danish machinery for making cement e. g. rotary ikilns and tube miils are used practically all over the world, and Danish civil engineers have planned and constructed cement works in numerous foreign countries. In this connexion, it should be mentioned that Danish engineering firms are budding bridges, roads, harbours and railways in all parts of the world. One of Denmark’s most important exporting industries is the oil industry, which aunually treats about 500.000 tons of raw materials such as copra, soya beans, whale oil, etc. These reach Denmark from the remotest regions of the earth and are converted into vegetable and animal oils, fats and fodder cakes. The value of these exports amounts aunually to some 80 million Kroner. A veteran Danish industry is the manufacture of porcelain and stoneware. By reason of their technical and artistic perfeetion the products of tilis industry have gained unequa lled farne all over the world. Danish porce­ lain, distinguished and characteristic, is one of the most widely known products of the Danish industry of applied art and presents the result of an intimate co-operation

between prominent artists and perfeet technique. Possessing manufacturing methods of its own, this in­ dustry continues on modern lines a centuries old artistic handicraft. In recent years the artistic Danish stoneware has likewise obtained a name known beyond the boundaries of Denmark. Another great industry of applied art is Danish silverware, the elegant products of which also form an export article of importance. The Danish industry of applied art, which in addition to the porcelain and silverware industries also comprises certain branches of the glass industry, textiles, bookbinding etc., the workmanship of which is stamped by the culture of many generations, has gained a large and important circle of friends and admirers among international con- noisseurs. Of other distinetly Danish industrial products which are largely exported may be mentioned vaeuum cleaners, dry cells and electric irons and electric tools for special purposes. Cryolite is mined in the Danish colony Green­ land, and is treated and refined in Denmark for export. Besides this there is a considerable export of flint, chalk and moler clay. Danish industrial con­ cerns likewise export large quantities of cleaned feathers, pencils, printers’ ink, lacquers, type and bearing metals, and last but by no means least a large number of important pharmaceutical specialities and medicines. There are also many other important Danish industries whose aotivities, however, are mainly confined to the production of goods for the domestic market, such as, for instance, leather, textiles, ready-made clothes, footwear, paper, glass, indiarubber, cordage, sugar, margarine, cho­ colate, tobacco, flour, fertilizers etc. A characteristic feature of these as well as of the ex­ porting Danish industries is their ameliorative character, the finished articles oonstituting quality products. The definite goal deliberately aimed at has really been to make the indication “MADE IN DENMARK" a guarantee for the sterling quality of the goods. Denmark’s Fisheries. Fishery is one of Denmark’s oldest occupations and espe- cially in the early middle ages herring fishing in the Sound was of fundamental importance for the economic life of the country. Gradually, however, this trade feil off very considerably, and only in more recent times a revival of the Danish fishery as a whole has taken place, thanks to the inereasing use of motordriven craft. In 1900 there were only 200 fishing craft meolianically driven, whereas at the present time there are over 6000. This development has carried along with it a flourishing industry of building marine engines in Denmark. A considerable export of marine engines now takes place. The value of the annual catch of fish is about 40 mil­ lion Kroner. The export of fish in 1937 represented a value of 53 million Kroner, made up as follows: Plaice and other flatfish 15,0 million Kroner, eels 6,0 million Kroner, cod and baddock 5,4 miil. hereof fish fillets ca. 1,1 mili., trout-e^gs 0,2 mili. and herrings 2,7 million Kroner etc. The oyster fishery in the Lim Fjord, which is a mono- poly, and also the\ production of unhatched trout-eggs, young trout and other fresh water fish'are of considerable importance for export. \---------------- In the section B, Financial Institutions, Shipping etc. will be found particulars regarding Denmark’s monetary system, mortgage institutions and banks, shipping and