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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April i, 1903. 



deprived of the use of foreign cars fitted with foreign tires 

 while the British automobile industry was still in the embryonic 

 stage. The Dunlop company, therefore, gave permission to its 

 licensees, the Clipper company, to have their motor tires manu- 

 factured by them by the best known foreign makers, whose 

 tires were thus placed at the disposal of the British public. 

 I ) ss uisfaction continuing to exist, the Dunlop company states 

 that it approached the North British company to get them to 

 relax the terms of the agreement in view of the situation which 

 had not been contemplated when the agreement was entered 

 into. The North British company, however, not only refused 

 this, but further stated that had they known that it would be 

 competent for any of the Dunlop licensees to have their tires 

 made abroad and imported into Great Britain, they would 

 never have consented thereto, and further the North British 

 company sought to have the Clipper company restrained from 

 importing and selling foreign made tires. The company feels, 

 says the circular, "that in common justice the above facts 

 should be made known so that it may no longer suffer the 

 odium attaching to a situation for which it is not responsible 

 and which it has taken every possible step to modify." 

 A SECOND RUBBER JOURNAL IN FRENCH. 



A SECOND journal published in French in the India-rubber 

 interest has come into existence — the Industrie et Commerce du 

 Caoutchouc et de la Guttapercha — an illustrated monthly pub- 

 lished by E. Dulemple and edited by Charles Dufour, at Ave- 

 nue de la Heine. 11, Brussels, and Rue Lafayette, 208, Paris. 

 The Gummi-Zeitung (Dresden) remarks that in recognition of 

 the need for a trade journal in the Caoutchouc interest for cir- 

 culation in French speaking countries, it considered the idea as 

 long ago as nine years of publishing an independent French 

 edition in Paris. It adds : " Whether the necessity is so great, 

 however, as to enable two publications simultaneously [another 

 new French rubber journal was mentioned in The India Rub- 

 ber World last monthl to find food for a healthy development 

 from the start is doubtful, in our opinion." It wishes success 

 to both the new comers, however. 



KEMPSHALL GOLF BALLS IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



The sole manufacture and sale of the Kempshall golf balls 

 in Great Britain has been taken over by The St. Mungo Manu- 

 facturing Co., of Broomloan road, Govan, Glasgow, with Lon- 

 don offices at 37. Walbrook, E. C. The St. Mungo company 

 have been making Gutta-percha balls for some years, but now 

 announce in a circular to the trade that " the general use of 

 rubber cored balls is an assured fact." The Haskell Golf Ball 

 Co. (Akron, Ohio) are prosecuting suits for infringement 

 against the Kempshall interest in Great Britain as well as in 

 the United States. 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



The Liverpool Rubber Co., Limited, have paid on last year's 

 business dividends of 5 per cent, on their preference shares and 

 zy 2 per cent, on the ordinary. 



= Mr. Archer Phillip Crouch has been appointed secretary of 

 the India Rubber, Gutta Percha, and Telegraph Works Co., 

 Limited (London) to succeed the late Mr. T. J. Lloyd, who 

 had filled the office for many years. 



= The India Rubber Manufacturing Co., Limited, was regis- 

 tered on February 27, with £20.000 capital, to carry on the 

 business conducted hitherto as the London Rubber Manufac- 

 turing Co., at 88, Croft street, Deptford, London. 



«= W. T. Henley's Telegraph Works Co., Limited, show a net 

 profit for 1902 of £61,362 9$. 8d. Dividends, at the rate of 4)4 

 per cent, on preference and 20 per cent, on ordinary shares, 

 amounted to £54.375. The amount carried forward is £25,967 



13s. nd. The year's business was mainly in India-rubbergoods, 

 the company not having had much to do in connection with 

 submarine cable work. Owing to the need of increased plant, 

 the company probably will issue this year the shares which 

 have been held in reserve — £25,000 preferred and £25,000 ordi- 

 nary. 



= A company has been formed under the name of The de 

 Nevers Rubber Tyre Co., for the business carried on for twenty 

 years by Oscar Count de Nevers as the New York Wheel and 

 Rubber Co., 377, Kennington road, London, E. C. Their tire 

 factory is at Bendon Valley, Earlsfield, London, S. W. 

 GERMANY. 



The Deutsch-Atlantische Telegraphen-Gesellschaft have fin- 

 ished laying their second line of cable to New York as far as 

 the Azores — 1851 miles. The remainder of the cable, now be- 

 ing manufactured at Nordenham, will not be completed for 

 several months. 



= Loewitz & Rohlfs, of the Gutta-percha and Balata worksat 

 Altona-Ottensen, announce in a circular a reduction in their 

 discounts to 10 per cent., which will only in part compensate 

 for the increase in the cost of raw materials since their former 

 discounts were fixed. 



= The firm of Feist Strauss (Frankfort o/Main), dealers in 

 waste rubber and supplies for the caoutchouc, linoleum, and 

 celluloid industries, have established a branch in Berlin — Lange- 

 strasse, 97 — where Herr S. Rosenbaum will superintend the 

 purchases and sales for that city and its vicinity. 



= The dividend of the Vereinigte Berlin-Frankfurter Gum- 

 miwaaren Fabriken (Berlin) for the business year just closed is 

 9 per cent., against a dividend of 7 per cent, declared in the 

 year previous. 



= The French firm of Michelin & Co. have removed their 

 German branch from Manheim to Frankfort o/Main — Kron- 

 prinzenstrasse, 37. The business of this house is confined 

 largely to the sale of the Michelin pneumatic tires. 



= Actiengesellschaft fiir Fabrikation Technischer Gummi- 

 waaren, C. Schwanitz & Co. (Berlin), has declared a dividend of 

 8 per cent, for 1902, against 9 per cent, in 1901, and 8 per cent, 

 previously. 



FRANCE. 



The Societe Frangaise des Pneumatiques Dunlop, Limited, 

 have established a factory at Argenteuil, near Paris, and are 

 now making tires. The dividends from last year'strading were 

 6 per cent, on the preference and 10 per cent, on the ordinary 

 shares. 



BELGIUM. 



The new Moniteur du Caoutchouc (Brussels) states that the 

 factory of the Centrale Beige, at Alost, a branch of La Centrale 

 Africaine Societe Anonyme, has established an equipment for 

 the manufacture of rubber shoes. 



MOSELEY-PREECE. 



Mr. David Mosei.ey, chairman of David Moseley & Sons, 

 Limited, India-rubber manufacturers of Manchester, was mar- 

 ried on February 11 to Agnes Gwen, eldest daughter of Sir 

 William Henry Preece, K. C. B., F. R. s., consulting engineer to 

 the British postoffice and consulting engineer to the British 

 and Colonial governments. The remarkable gifts of Sir Wil- 

 liam Preece as a lecturer on science have brought him promi- 

 nently before the general public ; he is the patentee of no less 

 than nine inventions of value in connection with telegraphy, 

 and the author of a large number of books and papers in the 

 field of electrical science. Mr. Oswald Moseley, second brother 

 of the bridegroom, officiated as best man. The wedding tour 

 was made in Italy. 



