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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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Their production has not been confined to paper making ma- 

 chinery, by any means. They have lately designed the whole 

 of a large new linoleum establishment at Lift, near Dundee, 

 Scotland, and a floorcloth factory at Fife, and they are doing 

 an important business in supplying plant for India-rubber and 

 Guttapercha works. The Edinburgh newspaper mentions 

 that " a very interesting order was recently carried out for a 

 large factory near Liverpool on American lines," for reclaim- 

 ing rubber. 



THE LIVERPOOL ELECTRIC CABLE CO., LIMITED. 

 This new enterprise is an outgrowth of the Liverpool Rub- 

 ber Co., Limited, with the same proprietors as the old com- 

 pany, though separately incorporated for purposes of conven- 

 ience. The premises occupied, 292, Vauxhall road, Liverpool, 

 are those vacated when the shoe manufacture was removed to 

 the new factory of the Liverpool Rubber Co., at Walton. The 

 old factory, in Vauxhall road, now comprises the rubber thread 

 department, mechanical rubber goods, and electric wires and 

 cables. The India Rubber World's British correspondent 

 lately referred to the products of the new company as having 

 already attracted favorable attention in the trade on account of 

 the superior appearance of their finish. 



RUBBER GOODS HIGHER IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. 

 An increase of 10 percent, in the price of rubber goods went 

 into effect in Austria- Hungary on April 20, as the result of a 

 confeience held by the leading manufacturers. The reason 

 given is the same that has led to concerted price advances in 

 Germany and Great Britain— a higher range of cost of raw ma- 

 terials than prevailed when the rubber goods prices lately cur- 

 rent were adopted. The advance relates to nearly all soft rub- 

 ber goods; special prices were fixed for some technical goods 

 and erasing rubber. At the same meeting, says the Gummi- 

 Zeituii^, rules were adopted regulating tenders for supplying 

 rubber goods required by the state railways— a matter not so 

 well defined hitherto as in Germany. 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



The property and assets, including patents, of the New 

 Grappler Tyre Co., Limited (Dublin), now in liquidation, have 

 lately been offered for sale. The company at one time did a good 

 business in cycle tires and later, after a reorganization, seemed 

 likely to succeed with motor tires, but they were at a disadvan- 

 tage from the want of working capital. 



= The Forth Rubber Co., Limited (Edinburgh), waterproof- 

 ers and mechanical rubber and golf ball manufacturers, have 

 decided to go into liquidation. 



= Mr. James Crump, for 37 years connected with what is now 

 P. B. Cow & Co., India-rubber manufacturers, London, and 

 since 18S7 a member of the firm, has retired from business on 

 account of failing eyesight. He was the head of the counting 

 house, at Cheapside, and on his retirement was presented with 

 a handsome testimonial by the staff. 



= The business of The Ixion Tyre and Rubber Co., Limited 

 (London), which went into voluntary liquidation in October, 

 1902, and will now pay their creditors in full, has been pur- 

 chased by W. Edmunds, who will carry on the business as a 

 private concern, as The Ixion Rubber Co. 



= The India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works 

 Co., Limited (London) have in their pay 4200 employes, and 

 the number (as was stated at the latt meeting of the company 

 is ever growing. 



= The W. T. Henley's Telegraph Works Co.. Limited, have 

 been awarded a contract for cables for the electric lighting of 

 Sydney, New South Wales, reported to amount in value to 

 ^40,000. 



= One of the best known directors of the Liverpool Rubber 

 Co., Limited, Mr. George Jager, the well known sugar refiner, 

 was reported in a recent letter to The India Rubber World 

 as being very dangerously ill. 



GERMANY. 



On April 1 a change occurred in the constitution of the firm 

 of Ekert Brotheis, for a dozen years or more importers of 

 American rubber shoes in Hamburg. L. Ekert retired, and 

 the business will be continued by the remaining partner, 

 Maximilian Ekert, together with Joseph Ekert, who now enters 

 the firm. 



=At the general meeting of the Asbest- und Gummiwerke 

 Alfred Calmon, Aktiengesellschaft (Hamburg), the dividend for 

 the last business year was fixed at 6 per cent. It is stated 

 that the business for the first two months of the present bus- 

 iness year showed an increase of 20 per cent, over the same 

 period of last year, and conditions are generally satisfactory. 



=Gustav Bucheisen is now the proprietor of the Deutsche 

 Gummi- und Telegraplenwerke (Berlin-Halensee), and the 

 name of the firm has been changed to Bucheisen & Co. 



= The steamship Stephan, launched lately at the Vulcan 

 shipyards, at Stettin, for the Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke, 

 A.-G., at Nordenham, is the first vessel built in Germany ex- 

 pressly for cable laying. It has a capacity for carrying 5000 tons 

 of deep sea cable, and will be used this year to lay the new 

 transatlantic cable now building at Nordenham. 



= The Continental Caoutchouc- und Guttapercha-Com- 

 pagnie (Hanover), it is reported, manufacture about 600,000 

 pneumatic cycle tires annually, and 10,000 inner tubes can be 

 produced daily. Their motor tire department also has reached 

 large dimensions. "Continental " motor tires are now sold in 

 Great Britain under an arrangement with the Clipper Pneu- 

 matic Tyre Co., Limited, and it is anticipated that, with the 

 expiration of the Dunlop tire patents, their cycle tires will also 

 be offered in the British market. 



= Under the firm name Schuh-, Leder- und Gummi- Co., 

 Weimar, G. m. b. H., the three brothers, Eduard, Karl, and 

 Ferdinand Laux have engaged in the wholesaling of shoe, 

 leather, and rubber goods at Weimar, Germany, with a capital 

 of 150,000 marks. 



BELGIUM. 



The fourth business report of the Socieie Anonyme pour le 

 Commerce et l'lndustrie du Caoutchouc (Brussels) shows earn- 

 ings for 1902 of 365.879 francs [ = $70,61 5], against 208,041 francs 

 for the preceding year. After writing off for all purposes, a 

 dividend of 6]4 percent, was declared on the preferred capital 

 of 1,000,000 francs [=$193,000] and 2.25 francs each for the 10,- 

 000 ordinary shares — a total disbursement of 87,500 francs 

 [=$16,887.50]. A good business in rubber cut sheet is men- 

 tioned especially, the sales in this branch having amounted to 

 509 251 francs. 



FRANCE. 



Gustave Job & Cie. (Paris) have been made exclusive 

 agents in France for the sale of the reclaimed rubber products 

 of the North Western Rubber Co., Limited (Liverpool). 



A decree which takes effect in Ecuador on April t, 1903. pro- 

 vides for the payment of a premium by the government of 20 

 cents [ = 97 cents, gold] for each rubber tree planted, for not 

 less than 500 trees on one plantation, one year old. Natives en- 

 gaged in rubber cultivation are to be exempt from military 

 service in time of peace. The government has authorized the 

 suspension of rubber gathering in the forests of the western 

 slope of the country for ten years. 



