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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April i, 1907. 



2,coo square meters [=21.528 square feet]. This establishment 

 has grown steadily until the area now e.\ceeds 5,500 square meters. 

 The business was organized into a joint stock company in 1892. 

 under the management of O. Englebert fils. More than 500 

 workers are employed, and over 225 tons of rubber were con- 

 sumed last year. Many interior and exterior views of the Liege 

 factory and store are given in a handsome volume lately issued — 

 "Guide Englebert Illustre." .\t the factory a wide range of rub- 

 ber goods are made, and in the warehouse are carried the products 

 of leading manufacturers abroad, but the Englebert specialty is 

 pneumatic tires. By the way, the "Guide" referred to embraces a 

 complete gazetteer of Belgium and Holland, for the benefit of 

 motorists and cyclists on tour, with maps, lists of hotels, etc. 

 There are branch Englebert factories at Givet (France) and 

 Bussum (Holland), and branch selling depots in Brussels and 

 Paris. 



CHEAT BRITAIN. 



The firm .\. W. Leslie & Co., Limited, waste rubber merchants, 

 119 Stoke Newington road, London, are going through voluntary 

 liquidation. Accounts arc being settled by the ofificial liquidators, 

 Knox, Cropper & Co., 16 Finsbury circus, E. C, London. The 

 above premises have been taken by A. W. Leslie, who will open 

 the business of waste rubber merchant as soon as the matters in 

 liquidation are settled. 



The European Rubber Machinery Syndicate. Limited, has been 

 registered at Manchester, with £50,000 capital, to acquire from 

 Henry J. Doughty, of Providence, Rhode Island, certain patents 

 relating to the manufacture of rubber boots and shoes, and ma- 

 chinery connected therewith. 



The accounts of J. Mandleberg & Co., Limited, waterproof 

 clothing manufacturers, at Manchester, for 1906, show a net profit 

 of £25.900. The result of the year's trading shows a satisfactory 

 improvement, having regard to the state of the waterproof trade, 

 which, although exhibiting a general advance upon the previous 

 year, has not yet returned to its normal level of demand. The 

 prospects are considered good for the present year. Dividends : 

 7 per cent, on the cumulative preference shares and I2''2 per 

 cent, on the ordinary shares. 



The Armstrong Trading Co., Limited, waste rulibcr merchants 

 in London, have removed to larger premises at 16, Creechurcli 

 lane, Leadenhall street, E. C. 



W. T. Henley's Telegraph Works C<\. Limited (London), re- 

 port a net profit for the business year 1906 of £63.959 [=$311,- 

 256.47]. The dividend is 4 per cent, on the preference and 15 per 

 cent, on the ordinary shares. The inanufacture of underground 

 lead covered cables has been commenced at the new Gravesend 

 works. 



GEHMAUY. 



The number of employes of the Continental Caoutchouc und 

 Guttapercha-Compagnie (Hannover) increased during igo6 to 

 5,673. The number was 2.741 in T903, 3,294 in 1904, and 4,516 

 in 1905. 



In further commemoration of the fifty-year "jubilee" of the 

 Harburg Comb Co., in 1906, a report of which appeared at the 

 time in The Indl\ Rubrer World, the company have brought out 

 a mammoth comb, for distribution to their friends in the trade 

 for advertising purposes, w-hich they call the "Jubilee." In 

 .•\merica the distribution is made by the company's representatives, 

 Messrs. Schrader & Ehlers, of New York. 



The dividend of the Mitteldeutsche GuniTniwaren-Fabrik Louis 

 Peter. A. G. (Frankfort a/Main), is 8 per cent., against 7 per 

 cent, last year. 



The directors of t! e Mannoverscbc Gummi-Kamm^ Co., .-V-G., 

 recommended a dividend of 21 per cent, for the last business 

 year, against 20 per cent, for the year preceding. 



The dividend of the Continental Caoutchouc-und Guttapercha- 

 Compagnie (Hannover) for the business year 1906 was the same 

 rs for the previous year — 40 per cent. 



The Nederlandsch-Indische Caoutchouc-Compagnie has been 

 organized by H. Diederichen, of Kiel, to plant rubber in the Dutch 

 East Indies. The company has been registered in Holland, with 

 500,000 llorins [=$201,000] capital. 



The Gunmiiwerke Wundt (Offenbach a/Alain), established in 

 igoo by Wilhelm Wundt. has been acquired by Carl Stockicht. 

 of the works at Frankfort, and will be operated under the name 

 Oflfenbacher Gummiwerke Carl Stockicht. 



The German consumption of raw rubber in 1905 is stated at 

 13,541 tons, or one-fifth of the world's production. Ninety fac- 

 tories were at work, with 100,000,000 marks [=$23,800,000] cap- 

 ital, and employing 32,000 workers. 



AUSTRIA. 



The death is reported of Josef Kunz, factory director of the 

 long established firm of Josef ReithofTers Sohne (Vienna), with 

 rubber works at Garsten and Pyrach. Herr Kunz entered the em- 

 ployment of the company in 1853. Four years ago, at the cele- 

 bration of his "jubilee." he was decorated by the Emperor with 

 a golden cross in reward of his valuable service to industry. 



SWITZERLAND. 



J. LoNSTROFF, of Geneva, proprietor of the Fabrique Genevoise 

 de Caoutchouc, advises The India Rubber World that the ca- 

 pacity of his factory at Carouge, devoted to the production of 

 surgical goods, with seamless nipples as a specialty, has been 

 materially enlarged. 



RUSSIA. 



The Russian-French Rubber Works "Prowodnik," at Riga, are 

 reported to have made a profit during 1905 of 1,014,000 rubles 

 [=$522,210], on turnover of about 15.000,000 rubles. There were 

 4.500 workers employed. Riga has two other rubber plants, both 

 smaller. The imports of crude rubber there for 1905 are stated at 

 126,000 poods [^4,536,000 pounds]. 



FRAKCE. 



The officers for 1907 of the French Channbre Syndicate des 

 Fabricants de Pneumatiques are M. Bloch, president ; MM. Loui.s 

 Chauvin and Hausmann, vice-presidents; M. Valery Hermay, sec- 

 retary; M. Remy, assistant secretary; M. Paul Treuil. treasurer; 

 M. G. Viard, archivist. 



WASTE RUBBER NOTES. 



REFERRING to a communication in The India Rubber 

 World [December i, 1906 — page 78] on "Russian Reclaimed 

 Rubber," a correspondent asks why 7000 work people are re- 

 quired at the "Prowodnik" factory, at Riga, for their production 

 of reclaimed rubber. It should be understood that the Riga fac- 

 tory turns out practically all lines of rubber goods, and is one 

 of the largest plants in the world. Their rubber reclaiming busi- 

 ness, though important, really is but a small proportion of the 



total production. 



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In the list of grades of waste rubber printed in The Inei.\ 

 Rubber World, December i, 1906 (page 89) by an inadvertence 

 "P. O. gutta-percha strippings" were referred to as "poor old." 

 Of course P. O. stands for Postoffice, the British postal depart- 

 ment being the largest suppliers of gutta-percha strippings ni 

 the world. 



The completion of the National Tehuantepec railroad, across 

 the isthmus of Tehuantepec, being the shortest route across 

 Mexico, affords such improved facilities for transportation as 

 cannot fail to prove of great benefit to the rubber and other 

 planting interests in that region. The road is 190 miles in length, 

 connecting the ports of Salina Cruz, on the Pacific, and Coatza- 

 cnalcos. on the Gulf of Mexico, at both of which ports capacious 

 harbor terminals have been constructed by S. Pearson & Son. 



