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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Decemeer I, 1904. 



at Saint-Tropez, (or armoring submarine cables, the whole 

 business being now owned and managed by Monsieur Alex- 

 andre Grammont. The highest awards have been made to the 

 house at expositions at Lyons, Brussels, and Paris. 



AUTOMOBILE SHOWS IN GERMANY AND FRANCE, 



The rubber exhibits at the international automobile exhibi- 

 tion held at Leipzig, October 15 23. were representative of some 

 o( the leading manufacturers in Europe and were extensive and 

 attractive in appearance. While devoted principally to tires, 

 some of them included also the various othtr articles of rubber 

 equipment for automobiles, motor cycles, and even bicycles — 

 for cycling is by no means a lost art in Germany. Among the 

 exhibitors were the following : 



Germany — Continental Caoutchouc- und Guttapercha Compagnie, 

 Hannover ; B. Polack, Wallerhausen ; Gummiwerke Oberspree, Ober- 

 schbneweide ; Lins Pneumatic Compagnie, Berlin ; Carl Slockicht, 

 Frankfurt a/M. 



France. — Mirhelin et Cie. , Clermont-Ferrand^; Etablissement Hutch- 

 inson — from the German branch at Mannheim. 



Gr;al Britain. — North British Rubber Co., Limited, Edinburgh. 



An international automobile exposition will beheld in Berlin 

 February 4 19, under the presidency of the Duke of Ratibor 

 and the joint control and management of the German Automo- 

 bile Club of Berlin and the Association of German Motor Ve- 

 hicle Manufacturers at Cannstatt. These two organizations, 

 comprise and represent, respectively, the varied interests of 

 Germany in the use and manufacture of motor vehicles for pur- 

 poses of sport, travel, and transportation. No doubt the lead- 

 ing European tire manufacturers will be well represented at 

 the Berlin show. 



The seventh annual Exposition Internationale de I'Automo- 

 bile in Paris, under the auspices of I'Automobile Club de 

 France, will be opened in the Grand Palais on December 9 and 

 be continued for 15 days. Exhibits will be comprised in 15 

 classes, of which Class V will be devoted to tires for automo- 

 biles and other vehicles, including bicycles and motorcycles. 



GRAND PRIZE FOR THE LAND AND SEA CABLE CO. 

 The Land- und Seekabelwerke Aktiengesellshaft (Coln- 

 Nippes, Germany) write to The India Rubber World that a 

 gold medal was awarded, at the St. Louis Exposition, for their 

 display of insulated wires and telegraph and telephone cables. 

 They had previously received high awards at Berlin (1901), 

 Diisseldorf (1902), and Dresden (1903). 



NEW ENGLISH COMPANIES. 



Reii.loc Tyre Co . Limited, registered in London October 

 6, 1904; capital ^looco. in £\ shares; to adopt an agreement 

 between A. T. Collier, Bertram & Egerton. Limited, and E. 

 Dyke, to hold and exploit certain patents and properties re- 

 ferred to in said agreement, and to carry on a business not par- 

 ticularly described except in the title. Registered office : 123, 

 Victoria street, S. W., London. 



= Empire Rubber Co., Limited, registered in London Octo- 

 ber 19. 1904: ^1000; to acquire the business of manufacturing 

 rubber heels carried on by J. B. Whitley and T. Brayshaw at 

 45. Grand arcade. Leeds (which is the registered office of the 

 new company). No initial public issue. 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



The India- Rubber, Gutta-Percha, and Telegraph Works Co., 

 Limited, now that the patents controlled by the Dunlop com- 

 pany have expired, are putting on the market beaded-edge and 

 wired-on tires, under the name " Silvertown." 



= The London depot of the United States Rubber Co. has 

 opened a department devoted to rubber coats, with a view es- 



pecially to the requirements of sportsmen and outdoor workers. 

 The company are reported to be doing a large business in rub- 

 ber footwear, of which they carry usually about 500,000 pairs. 



= The "Harbro" Rubber Co., large manufacturers, at Mar- 

 ket Harborough, of rubber heel pads, are mentioned as having 

 secured a patent for pneumatic tires, which they will proceed 

 to manufacture. They have also been booking orders for rail- 

 way buffers, which indicates that they intend a general expan- 

 sion of business. 



= A block of Para, weighing half a cwt., said to be "the first 

 piece ever imported into Ireland," has been on show in a Bel- 

 fast boot shop in connection with rubber heels. Does this 

 foretell the establishment of a rubber factory in the Green 

 Isle ? — The Indta-Rubber Journal. 



= The death is announced of Mr. Robert Kerr, a director 

 and large shareholder in F. Reddaway & Co., Limited, rubber 

 manufacturers of Pendleton, Manchester. He was formerly 

 senior partner of Kerr & Jubb, dealers in mill suppliesand rub- 

 ber goods, at Halifax, England, which business in time was 

 merged into that of Messrs. Reddaway. 



= The directors of New Pegamoid, Limited, propose a divi- 

 dend at the rate of 8 per cent, for the year ended September 

 30, 1904 — the same rate as paid last year. 



GERMANY. 



The Hannoversche Aktien-Gummiwaren- Fabrik (Han- 

 nover and Solin-Miinchen) have transferred their manufacture 

 o\ patent gumvti {cnx sheet) goods, and nipples and other seam- 

 less goods, to the Bayerische Gummiwaren- Fabrik Miinchen 

 G. m. b. H. This firm, as well as the latter, transacts business 

 with dealers only. 



= The death is reported, at Altona-Ottensen, of Herr Rich- 

 ard Arndt, for many years connected with the sales department 

 of Loewitz & Rohlfs, manufacturers of Balata belting and 

 Rubber goods. The deceased, who was taken away in the 

 prime of manhood, was widely loved and respected, in token of 

 which his funeral was largely attended and many beautiful 

 floral tributes sent. 



= The firm of Julius Roller, rubber goods manufacturer at 

 Metz, received at the international exposition for hotel and 

 restaurant supplies a gold medal and a prize of honor, which 

 latter was offered by the officers of the Royal Bavarian Fourth 

 Infantry regiment. A diploma of honor was awarded to the 

 manager of the firm, Herr Tillian. 



= Herr C. L. Strack, who has been connected with the Mann- 

 heimer Gummi, Guttapercha, und Asbest-Fabrik since Novem- 

 ber, 1878, and their Berlin representative for 12 yrars. celebrat- 

 ed lately his 23 year jubilee. 



RUSSIA. 



The share capital of the Russian- American India- Rubber Co. 

 (St. Petersburg) has been increased from 6,000,000 rubels to 

 6,500.000 rubels [=$3 347,500]. 



MANUFACTURE OF RUBBER FOOTWEAR IN BELGIUM. 

 As has been mentioned already in these pages, the Soci te 

 anonyme Beige pour le Commerce et I'lndustrie du Caoutchouc 

 is about to undertake the manufacture of India rubber foot- 

 wear in its factories at Alost. It is at present engaged in in- 

 stalling in its new buildings the special material quite recently 

 purchased in Germany, and they hope to be able to have their 

 goods on the market by the end of December. As the ccn- 

 sumption of India rubber footwear in Belgium would not be 

 sufficient to keep the factories going, the company proposes 

 more especially to do business for exportation, and orders have 

 already been received, principally from Asia, which promises 

 to be a very large field. 



