OcTOBEK I, 1902.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER ^VORLD 



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new material of the best quality entering into the composition 

 of Dermatine, this indeed being necessitated by the severe tests 

 to which the material is subjected in practice. I am not writ- 

 ing an advertisement, but only seeking to correct a statement 

 which might easily prove damaging : of course I am not obliv- 

 ious of the adage magna est Veritas, et prevalebil, but at the 

 same time another saying comes to mind referring to the 

 speed with which a perverted truth can cover the ground ; 

 hence this friendly disclaimer. 



The increasing number of accidents occurring with motor 



cars is causing many people of somewhat nervous temperament 



to look askance at the rival of the horse. With re- 



MOTOR ozrA to the fatal accident to the Fairs, at Paris, it 



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NOTES. would seem as if the " Continental tire of to-day is 



open to some suspicion as regards safety. The 

 narrowing of the tread undoubtedly tends to the increase of 

 speed, but this is attained at the expense of safety, owing to the 

 strain put upon the canvas by the sharper angle at which it is 

 bent. This explanation, which is of course only the expression 

 of individual opinion, may not seem plausible enough for gen- 

 eral credence, but I may say that it has the support of motor- 

 ists who have used tires of all makes. With regard to the 

 Goodyear tire, whose advent into this country a few months 

 ago was favorably reported on in these notes, it is somewhat sur- 

 prising to hear that in many cases it has failed to come up to 

 expectations. From the nature of the complaints which have 

 come to my ears, I should say that in the endeavor to obtain a 

 tough rubber sufficient care has not been taken to avoid the 

 perils of over vulcanization. Apart from the failure to with- 

 stand wear and tear, another cause of complaint seems to lie in 

 the difficulty experienced in putting on and taking off the tire. 

 The Martin tire is now being extensively tried on the road, 

 and I hope on a future occasion to be in a position to give 

 some details. 



Since the late disastrous fire in the General Electric Co. s 

 premises in London a good deal of correspondence has ap- 

 peared in the newspapers on the subject of fire 



ACTIVITY IN 

 FIRE BRIGADE 



APPLIANCES. 



prevention, and our position compared with 

 American towns has come in for much adverse 

 comment. With the subject as a whole I have 

 nothing to do here ; it is only of the resulting activity in the 

 fire hose trade that mention may here rightly be made. A par- 

 simonious spirit in the matter of purchases seems to be deeply 

 rooted in those who are responsible for the necessary expendi- 

 ture on the upkeep of a fire brigade, but the recent outburst 

 of public indignation has awakened authorities to what is in 

 store for them if they omit to fully prepare themselves for 

 emergencies. 



The appearances of Messrs. F. Reddaway in court, in order to 



obtain injunctions against competitors for using the name 



" Camel " in connection with belting, have come to 



TRADE 1^ looked upon as hardy annuals. In the most re- 



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cent of these cases, that against the Frictionless Me- 

 tallic Packing Co. honors were somewhat evenly divided, as 

 the defendants were restrained from using the name " Karmal " 

 alone in connection with belting, as the public might be misled 

 into thinking that it was Reddaway 's. With regard to the use 

 of the word "Camel " it was again held, as notably before by 

 the House of Lords in Reddaway v. Banham, that as long as 

 some qualifying term was used in connection there was no in- 

 fringement. Thus " Smith's Camel Hair belting " would not 

 be an infringement. In the rather dull proceedings at the Man- 

 chester chancery court, interest was chiefly aroused among 

 the business men present by the reiteration of Mr. Squire, a 

 director of Reddaway 's, that he did not know the names of any 



GOLF BALLS. 



of their competitors, and he had never had the interest to find 

 out anything about them. His interest in the subject had not 

 extended either to read the reports of the last injunction pro- 

 ceedings, or to study the lengthy Reddaway v. Banham case, 

 which went through all the courts to the House of Lords. No 

 doubt there is a strong tendency among new comers to make 

 use of a rival's success, and I have come across plenty of camel 

 hair belting in various continental exhibitions. I imagine that 

 Tuck's have to put up with a good deal of this sort of thing, 

 as Tuck's packing is manufactured and sold on the Continent. 

 I understand also that The Dermatine Co. have had to take 

 strong measures to prevent their descriptive title being annexed 

 by enterprising foreigners. 



Messrs. G. H. Scott & Co., of New Mills, Stockport, the 



well known rubber substitute manufacturers, announce that 



they are putting a superior brand of red sul- 



suLPHiDE phide of antimony on the market. One or two 



OF ANTIMONY. *,,.,, / , , , 



English houses have long had a name in the 

 rubber trade for this article, and to the best of my knowledge 

 German competition has never proved serious, though the same 

 cannot be said with regard to the French make. I don't sup- 

 pose that the demand for this chemical has increased of late, 

 as outside rubber and pyrotechny its applications are very lim- 

 ited, indeed. There has certainly been a reduction of price in 

 the last ten years, and the trade will not discourage fuither 

 competition. 



The new golf balls, the Haskell and Kempshall, come in for 

 a somewhat lengthy dissertation by a writer in the September 

 number of Blackwood's Magazine. Owing to the 

 high price which has been demanded, on account 

 of the limited supply, the rather severe step of forbidding their 

 use has been taken by the organizers of some of the Scotch 

 tournaments this autumn. Certainly 10 shillings per ball — a 

 figure which has been asked and paid — is calculated to frighten 

 the thrifty Scot. As regards the ordinary club professional 

 this individual does not look upon the American balls with a 

 very lenient eye, because with them his occupation of remaking 

 vanishes. 



The West Gorton Rubber Works, Manchester, where the 



" Standard " tire has been made of late years, are, I understand 



to be given up. The works once occupied by Mr 



REMOVAL Gregson for tire making are now the property of 



OF WORKS' T-1 , I -I'l- 



Messrs. Littlewoods, who are in the tire business 



at Birmingham, and it has been arranged to carry on the whole 



business in the latter town. 



The post of manager recently vacated at Messrs. George Mc- 



Lellan & Co.'s rubber works at Glasgow, by Mr. Walker, has 



been taken over by Mr. Peter Scott McLellan, 



SHORT nephew of the head of the firm.==Work is now 



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being rapidly pushed forward on the extensions of 



the Irwell Rubber Co., of Salford, Manchester, though it will 



probably be March before the buildings and new machinery 



are ready for use. The additions will enable the firm practically 



to double their output, the existing premises having proved 



quite inadequate to meet the increased business of recent years. 



==Another old established rubber firm— David Moseley & 



Sans — has been registered as a limited liability company, with 



^300,000 capjtal. It is what is known in Great Britain as a 



private company, the shares being held in the family, and 



not offered for public subscription, in which way it takes rank 



with Macintosh & Co. and Frankenburg, and not with firms 



such as the North British and Si!vertown.==I understand that 



the Dunlop Rubber Co., of Birmingham, in addition to their 



regular tire business, are actively pushing the general rubber 



business, in view, no doubt, of the rapidly approaching time 



