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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June i, 1907. 



THE RUBBER TRADE AT AKRON. 



liV A RESIIJF.NT CORRESI'OXnF.NT. 



CI 1 ARLF.S C. GOODRICH, a son of the lato Dr. B. F. Good- 

 rich, founder of The B. F. Goodrich Co. and present 

 assistant general superintendent of tlie company's plant here, has 

 announced that he will tender his resignation, to take efifect on 

 January I. Shortly afterward Mr. Goodrich will leave with 

 his family for the F.ast and will take up his permanent residence 

 prohably in New York. His magnificent home, "Westwood," 

 in this city, has been sold. As his reason for resigning, Mr. 

 Goodrich states that under the terms of his mother's will he is 

 appointed administrator of her large estate, which is located 

 in several of the eastern states, and his entire attention is needed 

 to properly care for the estate. Mr. Goodrich was recently 

 elected a member of the Akron city council and will, he says, 

 serve out his full term before leaving. Mr. Goodrich was born 

 in .\kron and has lived here during the greater part of his life. 



Along with the announcement that the Miller Rubber Co. have 

 purchased property adjoining their factory for building pur- 

 poses, comes the report that the new structure, which will be 

 erected within a short time, is for the purpose of affording room 

 for tile manufacture of tires, a branch of the industry in which 

 the company has not been engaged heretofore. 



The Byrider Electric Auto Co., incorporated under the laws 

 of Ohio on May 3, with $60,000 capital, includes W. A. Byrider 

 and James A. Swinehart, the patentees of the "Sidewire" vehicle 

 tire, which, by the way, is known in Europe as the "B. & S." 

 tire, from the names of its inventors. The new company has 

 purchased a plant at Cleveland and begun the manufacture of 

 cars. The major portion of the stock is held by Mr. Byrider 

 and his brother. 



RUBBER INTERESTS IN EUROPE. 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



THE Ilood Rubber Co., .\merican rubber footwear manufac- 

 turers, have established an European agency in London, at 

 141 High street, Shoreditch, in charge of Mr. C. W. Randall. 



The St. Helens Cable and Rubber Co., Limited, have lately 

 outfitted a new factory at an outlay of about £10,000. A feature 

 of the new plant is that the electric drive system has been adopted 

 for all their machinery. 



Johnson & Phillips, Limited, manufacturers of insulated wires 

 and cables, reported profits for 1906 of £33,164, notwithstanding 

 the hindrance to business from an extensive fire early in the 

 year. New fireproof buildings have been erected at Old Charlton 

 which bring their capacity up to the former limit. A dividend of 

 7 per cent, on the ordinary shares was declared ; there are no 

 preference shares. 



The Leyland and Birmingham Rubber Co.. Limited, is making 

 a rubber cored golf ball, the core being referred to as wound 

 with special machinery. 



Mr. James Tinto, managing director of the Irwell and Eastern 

 Rubber Co., Limited (Salford, Manchester), and who has been 

 •elected chairman of the India Rubber Manufacturers' .Associa- 

 tion for the current year, is spending a few months in Sout'i 

 Africa on business. 



FRANCE. 



The Societe Lyonnaise dc Caoutchouc Souple et Durci arc 

 increasing their capital from 425,000 to i.coo.ooo francs. 



A company styled "Le Sans 'Valve" has been formed in Paris. 

 at 22 Quay de Bethune, with 300.000 francs capital, to exploit 

 a pneumatic tire tube without valves. 



The dividends payable .April 17 from the profits for the la^t 

 business year of Etablissements Hutchinson, the principal foot- 

 wear manufacturers of France, were 30 francs per share (10 per 

 cent.) on the preference and 25 francs (8 1-3 per cent.) on the 

 ordinarv shares. 



The capital stock of Etablissements J. B. Torrilhon (Clermont- 

 Ferrand) has been increased from 4.000,000 to 6,000,000 francs 

 [=$1,158,000], by the issue of 20,000 shares of 100 francs at 125 

 francs, the issue being reserved to the former shareholders. 

 Their shares have been quoted recently at 159. Dividend for the 

 past year, 6 per cent. 



The tire manufacturers, Falconnet-Perodeaud, realized a net 

 profit of 294.897.15 francs [=$56,915.15] in the last business year 

 and disbursed a dividend of 8 per cent, on the capital of 1,700,000 

 francs. The capital is to be increased to 2,000,000 francs 

 [=$386,000]. 



A recent number of La Technique Automobile (Paris) illus- 

 trates five new types of spring wheels, and almost every issue of 

 that estimable paper contains as many or more new and ingenious 

 wheels 



GEBJtfANY. 



The Continental Caoutchouc- und Gutta-percha-Compagnie 

 (Hanover) declared a dividend of 40 per cent, out of earnings 

 for the last business year, the same as for the year before. Their 

 capital now amounts to 6.000,000 marks [=$1,428,000]. 



The Lohringer Gummiwerke G. m. h. H., at Metz, has been 

 registered with 140,000 marks [=$33,200] capital, to manufacture 

 rubber goods. Dominick Bailer is manager. 



Vereinigte Berlin-Frankfurter Gummiwaaren-Fabriken have 

 concluded a prosperous business year, the dividend remaining at 

 9 per cent. The capital is now 3,500,000 marks [=$833,000], 

 having been increased during the year for the purpose of acquir- 

 ing the H.Schweider SachsischeGummi- und Guttaperchawaaren- 

 F'abrik in Dresden, at a cost of 686,627 marks. The Berlin- 

 Frankfurter company are now operating five factories. The 

 I.NDi.A. Rubber World, June i, 1905 — page 315, reported their 

 purchase of the C. Schwanitz & Co. stock company, in Berlin, 

 whose factory they have since continued at work. 



NORWAY. 



The organization is reported of the Viking Gummi-Kompagnie, 

 at Christiana, to manufacture goloshes and india-rubber goods 

 generally, with a view to beginning operations before the end of 

 1007, 



SWEDEN. 



The waste rubber trade in Sweden, owing to the large con- 

 sumption of galoclies in that country, has developed iinportant 

 proportions. Gunnar Hirsch, of Stockholm, is one of the prin- 

 cipal dealers in waste rubber in Sweden, doing a large business 

 in various kinds of waste, but particularly in old shoes. 



The Aktiebolaget Continental Caoutchouc Compagnie has been 

 registered at Stockholm, with a capital of 25,000 kronen 

 [^$6,700]. and tlie power to increase to 75.000 kronen, to deal in 

 rubber goods. Erik Crispin Lundin is manager. 



RUSSIA. 



The Russian-French India Rubber Works "Prowodnik," at 

 Riga, during 1906 produced rubber footwear of the value of 15,- 

 185.976 rubles, and mechanical, surgical and other rubber goods 

 valued at 6,085.000 — a total of 21,270.976 rubles [=$10,994.- 

 952.64]. Beginning work in 1889, with 500,000 rubles capital, the 

 amount has increased to 7,000.000 rubles, with reserves amount- 

 ing to 6,085.000. The production of footwear has increased from 

 500 pairs daily, in 1890, to 35.000 to 40.000 pairs at present. 



PROCESS OF RECLAIMING RUBBER. 



I 'HE process of recovering rubber from rubber waste, patended 

 •*■ by William A. Koneman. of Chicago, consists in boiling 

 the waste material, reduced to a finely divided shape, with the 

 addition thereto of a suitable proportion of mixable hydrocar- 

 bon in a mineral-acid solution containing a halogen salt of the 

 alkaline group, such as sodium or calcium chloride, and removing 

 the dissolved and decomposed fiber. Tlie rubber remaining is 

 boiled in a solution of alkaline salt, and washed and dried. The 

 hydrocarbon referred to may be tar, pitch, resin or balsam. 



