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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April i. igop. 



THE RUBBER INTEREST IN EUROPE. 



DR. ING. ADOLF PRINZHORN. 



THE senate of the Technisclie Hochsclmlc (technical high 

 school) of Charlottenburg (Berlin) have conferred a notable 

 distinction upon Herr Adolf Prinzhorn, until recently managing 

 director of Continental Caoutchouc- und Guttapercha-Compagnie, 

 the honorary degree of doctor of engineering. This is in rec- 

 ognition of the eminent services rendered by him in behalf of the 

 development of the rubber industry in Germany. This is re- 

 ferred to as the first time that a representative of this trade has 

 been thus favored, and the honor is appreciated by the whole 

 rubber interest. 



BETTER DUNLOP BUSINESS IN GERMANY. 



The Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co., Aktiengesellschaft, at 

 Hanau, closed their second business year with gross trading 

 profits of 870,460 marks [= $207,169.50], against 829,846 marks 

 last year. General costs amounted to 600,255 marks, and after 

 writing off for depreciation and bad debts, a net profit remained 

 of 223,018 marks, against 105,526 marks last year. A dividend 

 of 4 per cent, was declared— calling for $49,900— against nothing 

 last year, and the carry over is 75,650 marks. 



AFFAIRS OF VOIGHT & WINDE (BERLIN). 



The directors of Gummivvaren-Fabrik Voight & Winde, 

 .\ktiengesellschaft, of Berlin, have advised that the company go 

 into liquidation. The company was formed in 1873. The capi- 

 tal for some time past has been 1,000,000 marks [= $238,210], 

 and untir recently good dividends have been paid. The last 

 dividend declared was 3 per cent., and there was none last 

 year. They manufacUire meclianical goods. 



INCREASE or CAPITAL AT ST. MARY'S MILLS. 



W. & A. Bates, Limited, rubber manufacturers at St. Mary's 

 Mills, Leicester, issued recently at par i45.ooo in 6 per cent, 

 cumulative preference shares, increasing their total outstanding 

 capital to £109,007. The business was formed in 1863, and organ- 

 ized into a company in 1890. The business was founded by Mr. 

 William Henry Bates, associated with whom was Mr. Hugh 

 Faulkner, and both are now members of the board. They manu- 

 facture a wide variety of rubber goods, but their- tire trade 

 particularly has been growing of late. The average annual 

 profit for three years past is stated at ii9,337 H-^- jd., and for 

 the year ended August 31 last, £23,648 13.?. i\d. 



PROFITS OF BRITISH COMPANIES. 



Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co., Limited, report 

 a net profit for 1908 of £61,896 [=$301,216.88], after charging 

 interest on debentures. The company's general business was 

 satisfactory, and the plant v-. maintained in good condition. 

 Dividends for the year total 15 per cent. ; for the three preceding 

 years, 15, 15, and 17^ per cent. 



W. T. Henley's Telegraph Works Co., Limited, report a net 

 profit for 1908 of £71,274 [=$346,854.92], the increase in gross 

 profits being nearly £6,000. Dividends were as usual— 15 per 

 cent, on the ordinary and 4^ per cent, on the preferred shares. 



Liverpool Electric Cable Co., Limited.— At the Seventh 

 annual meeting (Liverpool, December 22) the dividends 

 declared for the- year aggregated 7^ per cent., with a bonus 

 of 2% per cent., making a total of 10 per cent. 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



The trustees under the will of the late James Dick, one of the 

 founders of R. & J. Dick, Limited (Glasgow), have allocated the 

 sum of £311,500 [=$1,515,914.75] out of the residue of the estate 

 to Scottish charities, 160 of which have shared in the bequests. 



The Peerless Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York) are now 

 represented in Great Britain by Carr Brothers, Limited, II 

 Queen Victoria street, E. C, London, who are stocking "Rain- 

 bow" packings and other specialties of the Peerless company. 



Sinclair Rubber Co., Limited, registered in Edinburgh, Novem- 



ber 20, 1908; capital, £5,000 [=^24,332.50]. The object is to ac- 

 quire the business of the Sinclair Rubber Co., Edinburgh, and 

 certain allied businesses carried on by J. C. Sinclair, P. F. Gem- 

 mell, and D. S. K. Greig, who form the directorate of the new 

 company. 



At the thirteenth annual meeting of the Self Sealing Rubber 

 Co. (Birmingham, November 24), the accounts showed a net 

 profit for the year of £1,993 [=fe>699]. A dividend of 10 per 

 cent, was declared. 



The patent rights for Great Britain for the Bailey "Won't 

 Slip'" tire have been acquired by the North British Rubber Co., 

 Limited, (Edinburgh). 



Mr. Blaisdell, the inventor of the paper-wound lead pencil, is 

 mentioned in our London contemporary as having "invented a 

 core for solid rubber tires, whereby considerable resiliency is 

 attained." It i& not mentioned what material is used to afford 

 more resiliency than is inherent in rubber. 



Rom Tire and Rubber Co., Limited, registered in London 

 December 11, 1908; capital £5,000 [=$24,332.50]. Offices, 32 

 Rosebury avenue, E. C, London. 



GERMANY. 



The rubber goods and hemp hose factory of B. Polack, at Wal- 

 tershausen, earned a net profit of 463,574 marks during the last 

 business year. The dividend was 20 per cent. 



The firm Sachsische Packungs-Industrie, Hermann Kramer, at 

 Radeberg, has been wound up. 



Carl Poppe, on February 4, celebrated the twenty-fifth anni- 

 versary of his connection with Vereinigte Berliner-Frankfurter 

 Gummiwaren-Fabriken. For many years he represented the 

 company effectively in London, after which he was appointed 

 manager at the branch factory at Gelnhausen, since which time 

 he has been joint managing director of his company. 



There has been organized at Hanover, Germany, the Conti- 

 nental Caoutchouc Uebersee Compagnie Aktiengessellschaft for 

 the sale generally of the products of the Continental Caoutchouc- 

 und Gutta-Percha-Compagnie of Hanover and Continental So- 

 ciete Anonyme de Caoutchouc Manufacture in Paris. The capital 

 named is 100 marks. The founders named are Messrs. Siegmund 

 Seligniann, Dr. Albert Gerlach and Willy Tischbein — all of the 

 Hanover management. 



SWITZERLAND. 



The establishment is announced of a new cable and rubber 

 goods factory at Zurich, under the style Schweizerische Draht- 

 und Gummiwerke A.-G. The capital is 600,000 francs, and Hein- 

 ricli Neudorffer is managing director. 



RUSSIA. 



Ms. G. Heyse, manufacturing director of the Russian-Ameri- 

 can India-Rubber Co., "Treiigolnik," has resigned that position, 

 on account of ill health. 



LONDON'S COMING TRAVEL EXHIBITION. 



A MOST attractive program is that arranged for The World's 

 Touring, Sports, Pastimes, Travel, and Topical Exhibition, 

 for the Olympia, London, July and August next, under 

 the organization of Mr. A. Staines Manders, j. p., whose success- 

 ful management of the International Rubber and Allied Trades 

 Exhibition, in the same building last September, was so widely 

 recognized. The field of travel and sports is so wide as to em- 

 brace a very large proportion of people of culture in every land, 

 and the fact that this novel exhibition will attract widespread 

 attention is attested by the character of the names of the pre- 

 liminary list of vice-presidents and the advisory committee. Sir 

 Gilbert Parker, d. c. l., m. p., is president, and the list includes 

 not a fe wwho were identified with the Rubber Exhibition, par- 

 ticularly Colonel W. J. Bosworth, who again is to be chairman 

 of the executive committee. 



