March i, ipog.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



217 



Some India-Rubber Interests in Europe. 



BUNLOP HUBBER FACTORY IN JAPAN. 



THE shareholders of Diiiilop Pneumatic Tyre Co., Limited, 

 at a special meeting (London, February i), approved of 

 a proposition of their directors to become interested in a 

 rubber factory in Japan, of which an intimation occurred in the 

 address by Chairman du Cros at the last annual meeting of the 

 Dunlop Rubber Co., Limited. [See The India Rubber World, 

 February I, 1909 — page 171.] The Dunlop interests have had no 

 direct representation in the Orient hitherto, except a selling 

 agency for Japan, since 1906 — the firm of H. & W. Greer. The 

 Dunlops have invested no capital in that concern, however, be- 

 yond a stock of bicycle tires. The firm of Greer have now brought 

 forward a plan to organize a rubber factory in Japan, capitalized 

 at £81,000 [=$394,186.50], of which the Dunlop company will 

 receive £15,000 [^$72,997.50] in full paid preference shares for 

 their trade-marks and also a royalty in perpetuity on all tires 

 manufactured by the new company. A director in the Dunlop 

 •company will have a seat on the board. 



OTHER DUNLOP INTERESTS. 



The directors of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Limited, who have 

 not been paid fees from the funds of that company hitherto, but 

 have relied for compensation upon Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co., 

 Limited, will receive hereafter fees aggregating £2,000 a year, 

 and such further sums as the company may in future determine 

 in general meeting. 



It would appear that not all the branches of the Dunlop tire 

 COMPAXY are worked so profitably as the parent company, whose 

 large dividends have been recently reported in The India 

 Rubber World. The report of the Societe Frangais des Pneu- 

 matiques Dunlop, Limited, for the financial year ending July 31, 

 1908, showed a net loss of £11,744. hut on account of the balance 

 carried over from the past the directors recommended a dividend 

 of 6 per cent, on the preference shares, leaving a balance of 

 £13,851 to be carried to the new account. 



RUSSIA. 



The Russian-American India-Rubber Co., "Treugolnik," of 

 St. Petersburg, announce the complete merger with them of 

 the important house of Leopold Neuscheller, of the same city, 

 the assets and liabilities being assumed in full. The general 

 management of the sales department under the new arrangement 

 has been entrusted to H. van Gilse von der 

 Pals. The community of interest of the two 

 1860\ firms was mentioned in The India Rubber 



World September i, 1908, (page 399), and 

 also the addition to the firm name of 

 ♦AEPiiH. KJiEH.MO Russian-American company of "Treugolnik," 

 a Russion word for "triangle," or "three-cornered," and descrip- 

 tive of the company's long used trade mark. 



The Gummiwaren-Fabrik "Russia," Gebriider Freysinger 

 ("Russia" Rubber Goods Factory, Freysinger Brothers), at 

 Riga-Sassenhof, announce that engineer Friedrich Krauss has 

 by mutual consent retired as a general partner of the firm as 

 from January I last, but will continue his connection with the 

 firm as a special partner. Power of attorney was granted under 

 the same date to Paul Vieweger, who has been in the employ of 

 the firm for many years. 



GERMANY. 



The retirement is announced of Adolf Prinzhorn from active 

 service in the Continental Caoutchouc- und Guttapcrcha-Com- 

 pagnie (Hanover), of which he has been for many years man- 

 aging director. Herr Liidecke also retired from active service, 

 but both gentlemen will continue to give the firm the benefit of 

 their experience. Herr Prinzhorn recently made an extensive 

 visit to the rubber planting regions of the Far East. [See The 

 India Rubber World, November i, 1908— page 72.] 



The name of the Hannoversche Gummiwaren- und Balata- 



Treibriemen-Fabrik, Adolf Prestien, has been changed to Hanno- 

 versche Gummiwaren- und Textilriemen-Fabrik, Adolf Prestien 

 (Hanover Rubber Goods and Woven Belting Works). The for- 

 mer partnership has been dissolved, through the retirement of 

 L'lrich Struck and Hcinrich Augustin, leaving Adolf Prestien 

 sole owner. 



The senior member of the firm of S. Herz, rubber goods 

 manufacturers of Berlin, Flerr Wilhelm Herz, already Geheimer 

 Kommersienrat, has been honored by the Kaiser with the decora- 

 tion of the Order of the Red Eagle, second class, with the Star. 

 Mr. Herz is one of the oldest men in the German rubber trade, 

 but although he has reached the age of 86, he still shows 

 untiring energy, being actively engaged in the management of the 

 works, and holding even now the office of president of the 

 Berlin Chamber of Commerce. 



Thiiringer Schlauchweberei und Gummiwcrk G. m. C. H., 

 with 410,000 marks [=$97,580] capital, has been organized for 

 the manufacture at Waltershausen of linen and rubber hose, me- 

 chanical rubber goods, and pneumatic and solid tires, by Fritz 

 Kestner and Ludwig Wulf, the latter sometime connected with 

 the rubber factory of B. Polack, also in Waltershausen. 



Mannheimer Gummi,- Guttapercha- und Asbest-Fabrik, A. G. 

 (Mannheim) have had another good year, and the dividend 

 is 10 per cent., the same as in the preceding year. 



RUBBER WORKS MOVED FROM RERUN. 



Vereinigte Berliner-Frankfurter Gummiwaren-Fabriken have 

 transferred their Berlin works to Lichterfelde-Ost, Steinstrasse, 

 3, where new works have been completed and a modern 

 machinery plant installed. For the convenience of customers in 

 the city an office and warehouse have been opened in Berlin near 

 Potsdamer platz. The Berlin works, on the river Spree, were 

 among the oldest in the rubber trade in Germany, having been 

 established in 1849 by an Englishman named Elliott. The busi- 

 ness of the company has been largely developed under the man- 

 agement of Mr. Emil Spannagel, who has been in charge for the 

 past fifteen years. The company have factories also at Glen- 

 hausen and at Grottau (Bohemia). 



AUSTRIA. 



Vereinigte Gummiwaren-Fabriken, Harburg-Wien, vormals 

 Menier-J. N. Reithoffer, at their Vienna headquarters, have 

 granted joint power of attorney to Karl Reiser, chief cashier at 

 the Wimpassing factory, in succession to Franz Stingle, imperial 

 counselor. ' 



profits of GEORGE ANGUS & CO. 



The twenty-first annual report of George Angus & Co., Lim- 

 ited, manufacturers of leather belting, balata, and cotton belt- 

 ings, and woven hose at Ncwcastle-on-Tyne and Bentham, Lan- 

 caster, shows a net profit of £33,280 i6.s. 4d. [=$161,961.10]. 

 Dividends 5 per cent, on preference and 10 per cent, on or- 

 dinary shares, with 4 per cent, on mortgage debenture stock. 

 Balance carried forward £36,458 SJ. lod., practically the same 

 as last year. From 1899 to the present the annual dividend 

 on ordinary has been 10 per cent, with the exception of 1901, 

 1904, 1905 and 1906, in which i2'/2 per cent, was paid. 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



M.\cLAREN & SON.s, Limited, registered in London December 

 I, 1908, with £42,000 capital (of which £12,000 in preference 

 shares), succeed to the business of Maclaren & Sons, pub- 

 lishers of The India Rubber Journal and other trade journals. 

 Directors: W. F. de Bois Maclaren, F. Copeman, J. Allison, 

 J. H. Macadam and Herbert Wright. 



The voluntary liquidation is reported of Elastes Co., Limited, 

 an English company manufacturing "Elastes," a tire filler. 



The American Hard Rubber Co. have removed their London 

 agency from the premises occupied for the past eight years to 

 larger quarters in Basma House, 13A, Fore street, E. C. 



