Mai i, 1903.] 



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INDIA-RUBBER INTERESTS IN EUROPE. 



HIGHER RUBBER GOODS PRICES IN GERMANY. 



TWO circulars issued to the trade during the month are 

 identical in form, except that one relates to technical 

 articles and the other to surgical goods. The circular 

 follows : 



End "i M.ui li , [ J03. 



The undersigned rubber goods factories, owing to the continued im- 

 portant advances in the prices of crude rubber and other raw materials 

 used in the manufacture of rubber goods, are forced, in order to keep 

 pace with the increased cost of manufacture, to place an advance of 10 

 per cent, on technical articles [in one circular, surgical articles] of soft 

 rubber, taking effect April 6, 1903. This decision was concurred in 

 unanimously at a meeting held in Berlin on the 24th instant, and is in 

 accord with the necessity. 



In the list following, * indicates signatures of manufacturers 

 of technical goods, and f manufacturers of surgical goods : 



* t s - Saul, Aachen. 



* Aktiengesellschaft fur Fabrikation technischer Gummiwaren, C. 



Schwanitz & Co., Berlin. 



* Behrendt & Co., Berlin- Reinickendorf. 



* Dr. Cassirer & Co., Berlin-Charlottenburg. 



* Deutsche Gummi- u. Guttaperchawaren Fabrik, A.-G., vorm. 



Volpi & ScnlUter, Berlin. 



* Deutsche Kabelwerke. A.-G., Berlin-Rummelsburg. 



* t Gummiwaren- Fabrik Voigt & Winde, A.-G , Berlin. 



* Gummiwerk Obeispree, G. m. b. H , Berlin Oberschonweide. 



* S. Herz, Berlin. 



* + E. Kiibler& Co.. Berlin. 



* f Norddeutsche Gummi- u. Guttaperchwaren-Fabrik, vorm. Fon- 



robert & Reimann, A.-G., Berlin. 



* f V'ereinigte Berlin Frankfurter Gummiwaren-Fabiiken, Berlin. 

 *t Bremer Gummiwerke Roland, A.-G.. Bremen. 



* f Sachsisch-Bohmische Gummiwaren Fabriken, A.-G., Dresden I. ob- 



tau. 



* H. Schwieder, Sachsische Gummi- u. Guttaperchawaren-Fabrik, 



Dresden-Neustadt. 



* f Francois Fonrobert, Finsterwalde. 



* Mitteldeutsche Gummiwaren- Fabiik Louis Peter, Frankfurt a/M. 



* Blodner & Vierschrodt, Gotha. 



* Vereinigte Hanfschlauch- u. Gummiwaren Fabriken zu Gotha, A. G. , 



Gotha. 



* Asbest- u. Gummiwerke Alfred Calmon, AG., Hamburg. 



* Continental-Caoutchouc- u. GuttaperchaCompagnie, Hannover. 

 *t Hannoversche Actien Gummiwaaren Fabrik, Hannover. 



* t Vereinigte Gummiwaren Fabriken Harburg Wien, vorm. Menier — 



J. N. Reithoffer, Harburg a/Elbe and Hannover Linden. 



* f Mtinden Hildesheimer Gummiwaren- Fabriken Gebruder Wetzell, 



A.-G., Hildesheim. 



* t Franz Clouth, Rheinische Gummiwaren-Fabrik m. b. H., Koln- 



Nippes. 



* f Leipziger Gummiwaren-Fabrik, A.-G., vorm. Julius Marx, Heine & 



Co., Leipzig- Plagwitz. 



* Mannheimer Gummi-, Guttapercha- u. Asbest-Fabrik, Mannheim. 

 *f Aktiengesellschaft Metzeler & Co., Mlinchen. 



* f Gebruder Kunth, Mtinden, Hannoverisch. 

 ■f II. M. Anton, Berlin. 



{ Fr. M Daubitz, Berlin Rixdorf. 

 f Meyer & Falkenhain, Berlin. 



!C. Miiller, Gummiwaren-Fabrik, A.-G., Berlin. 

 Schlesische Gummiwaren-Fabriken, Gustav Eichler, Breslau. 

 t Hannoversche Gummi Kamm-Compagnie. A. G., Hannover-Limmer. 

 f Gustav Wellmann, Hannover-Hainholz. 

 f Hoxter'sche Gummifaden-Faorik, Emil Arntz, II oxter, 

 f M. Steinberg. Koln a/Rhein. 



f Phil. Penin, Gummiwaren-Fabrik. A.-G., Leipzig Plagwitz. 

 t " Vulkan" Gummiwaren Fabrik Weiss & Baessler, Leipzig- Lindenau. 

 t Zieger & Wiegand, Leipzig-Volkmarsdorf. 



THE GERMAN ELECTRICAL CONSOLIDATIONS. 

 The new consolidated electrical manufacturing firm mention- 

 ed in the The India Rubber World for March will be known 

 as the Siemens-Schiickert-Werke G. m. b. H. [Company with 

 limited liability.] The capital is to be 90,000,000 marks [=$2r,- 

 420,000.] The working capital is to be contributed equally by 



the Siemens & Halske and Schiickert interests. The new ar- 

 rangement dates from April 1. There are included the Schiick- 

 ert factories at Nuremberg and the Siemens & Halske dynamo 

 works at Charlottenburg and cable works in Westend.==The 

 arrangements for the combination of the Allgemeine Elektriz- 

 ilats and the Union Elektrizitats companies mentioned at the 

 same time, have also been completed. Each concern will keep 

 separate accounts, but will pool their profits, which will be ap- 

 portioned according to the ratio of their respective capitals, the 

 f inner company receiving fifteen-nineteenths and the latter 

 four-nineteenths. The combination will become operative on 

 July 1, and will continue for thirty-five years. 



SENATOR MARETS GOLDEN BOOK. 

 On the occasion of the^twenty-fifth anniversary of his hon- 

 orary membership of the city council of Harburg, Herr Senator 

 Carl Maret, financial director of the Vereinigte Gummiwaaren- 

 Fabriken, Harburg-Wten, presented to the city a beautiful and 

 costly "Golden Book," with a view to having recorded in it in 

 future, after their demise, the names of all persons, irrespective 

 of their station in life, who have become prominent in services 

 rendered the city. In his dedication Senator Maret says: " As 

 a citizen of a steadily developing community with which I have 

 been identified for 46 years, I have come to conclusion that the 

 city of Harburg owes its prosperity, not alone to its favorable 

 location, but first of all to the thrift and industry of its inhabi- 

 tants, especially the aim of its burghers for the common weal 

 which has ever been led by the zeal of its best sons." 



A RUBBER TRUST IN SWEDEN ? 

 ACCORDING to the Oeresund Post, certain financial interests 

 in Stockholm have been concerned lately with negotiations for 

 acquiring a majority of the shares in the three principal rubber 

 manufacturing joint stock companies in the country. The 

 shares of these companies have, therefore, been quoted at 

 higher figures of late, though the dividends distributed during 

 the last few years have not been so large as formerly, when the 

 Helsingborg company paid 50 to 60 per cent. Another reason 

 suggested for the advance in shares is that a motion has been 

 made before the riksdag, now in session, for an increase in the 

 duty on imported rubber goods, although the rate is already 

 high.= ^=The three principal Swedish rubber factories are the 

 Skandinaviske Gummi Aktiebolaget, at Viskafors ; the Aktie- 

 bolaget Velox, at Trelleborg ; and the Helsingborg Gummi- 

 Fabrik, Aktiebolaget. 



IT WAS ANOTHER FIRM THAT FAILED. 



To the Editor of The India Rubber World : In your 

 English notes you may be referring to the failure of Messrs. 

 Frankenburgs, Limited, of Birmingham, Manchester, and Lon- 

 don, in your next issue. As we have been caused annoyance 

 by the similarity of name to our own, we should be very much 

 obliged if you would make special mention of the fact that this 

 fiim has no connection at all with our own. 



Thanking you in anticipation, we remain, yours faithfully, 



ISIDOR FRANKENBURG. LIMITED. 

 Salford, Manchester, April 9, 1903. Herbert Standring, Secretary. 



GREAT BRITAIN. 

 The Cravenette Co., Limited (Bradford, England) are re- 

 ported to have transferred their business to the Bradford 

 Dyers' Association. The company have lately paid dividends 

 at the rate of 15 per cent., but in view of possible future 



