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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January i, 1903. 



the Miciielin tires and the "Continental" tires, manufactured 

 by license of the Dunlop company. Their booklet contains a 

 gooa deal of information useful to motorists and including the 

 law as to the use of motor cars on the highway — a subject on 

 which a good deal has been heard lately. The Scottish Tyre, 

 Limited, of Glasgow, who work under license from the Dunlop 

 company, showed their Scottish " de-Luxe " and " Victor " tires 

 guaranteed for thirteen months. From private information 

 vouchsafed to me by riders these tires seem to quite bear out 

 the claims made for them. The " Collier Twin " tire has been 

 referred to recently in these pages and I need not say more 

 than that they had a prominent e.xhibit which attracted a good 

 deal of attention. In the "Black" tire, made by the Black 

 Pneumatic Tyre Co., Limited, Glasgow, an arrangement of sec- 

 tional bands, eyelet holes, and studs is adopted instead of the 

 usual wire or thickened edge. The statement in their circular 

 that Moseley's rubber and fabric, of which the tires are made_ 

 is recognized to be the finest and most suitable, amounts to an 

 ipse dixit which might conceivably be challenged. The " Ra- 

 dax " tire, the peculiarity of which lies in self attachment 

 under inflation due to the curvilinear nature of the fabric, oc- 

 cupied a prominent position, and mention should not be omit- 

 ted of the exhibit of the well known motor tires of the New 

 Grappler Pneumatic Tyre Co., Limited, of Dublin. Besides 

 the North British Rubber Co., the other <5o«ayf;/« rubber manu- 

 facturers who had exhibits were the St. Helens Cable Co.; the 

 Avon Rubber Co., with the " Avon " single tube motor tire ; 

 Midland Rubber Co., and W. & A. Bates, of Leicester. The 

 Continent was represented by the Continental Caoutchouc, 

 und Guttapercha-Compagnie, of Hanover, whose stand was in 

 point of size and attractiveness worthy of the firm. The de- 

 scriptive catalogue given away to visitors contained an inter- 

 esting series of views of the diflferent departments of the works^ 

 and it will no doubt prove of considerable interest, seeing the 

 increasing interest which the cycling and motoring public take 

 in the subject of rubber. The United States, it should be men- 

 tioned, was represented by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., 

 with their motor tire. 



It would seem that I ought to modify in one respect some 

 remarks I made last month regarding the manufacture of dry 

 core telephone cables. It is incorrect to say that 

 owing to climatic troubles the manufacture "has 

 practically died out, these troubles it appears having 

 been quite overcome in the large works in Lancashire and on 

 the Thames, where such cables are now being made on a large 

 and increasing scale.--- Mr. T. C. Leer, who has long been 

 connected with the London house of Charles Macintosh & Co. 

 Limited, has I understand been appointed the manager in 

 place of Mr. T. M. Bleackley deceased. ^^=Mr. Charles Coops, 

 late managing director of the Eccles Rubber and Cycle Co., 

 Limited, has finally severed his connection with the company 

 and will probably make his home in South Africa. — It is not 

 always easy to get at the truth of changes or reported changes 

 and I was somewhat previous with my late remarks concerning 

 the Capon Heaton Co., of Stirchley, Birmingham. They have 

 not, at least up to date, been bought up by the Dunlop com- 

 pany, but are going on independently and doing pretty well 

 from all accounts. ^^^Mr. P. A. Birley, of Messrs. Charles 

 Macintosh & Co., has returned from his visit to the United 

 States, and bears eloquent testimony to the hospitality ex- 

 tended to him and to the pleasure and instruction he derived 

 from inspecting the works to which access was granted him. 



Mr. John Zwingler, with whom originated the Dermatine 



manufacture, recently died in London. He was of Austrian 

 nationality, a term which does not convey any very definite 



BRIEF 

 MENTION. 



racial characteristics, but I am unable to particularize his or- 

 igin more clearly. He had long ceased I may say to have any- 

 thing to do with The Dermatine Co., Limited, of London. 

 Mr. James Burleridge, of Messrs. William Warne & Co., of 

 Tottenham, has returned from the Continent quite recovered 

 from his recent indisposition. The old works of Messrs. 

 Warne & Co. will still continue to be carried on at Tottenham, 

 in conjunction with the larger works recently opened at Bar- 

 king.==The works of the Hyde Imperial Rubber Co. were at 

 the sale by auction on November 25, bought in at /i 5.550 by 

 a syndicate promoted by Mr. Dawes, the late manager, and he 

 will be the manager of the new company formed to operate the 

 works. 



With regard to a recent announcement in this correspond- 

 ence, it should be said that this firm have given up the idea of 

 removing entirely to Birmingham, and 



GEORGE LiTTLEwoDD ^j^g ^^q^^s of the Standard Rubber Co., of 

 & sons, limited. „ ,,, „ ,, 



Ross street. West Gorton, Manchester, 



will be carried on by them under the title of George Little- 

 wood & Sons, Limited, with Mr. Paterson as manager. A com- 

 plete up-to-date plant for the manufacture of cycle strips is 

 now being put down. 



Under this somewhat strange title a works has been estab- 

 lished at Monton Green, near Manchester, for the manufacture 

 of artificial leather. I am not in the secret of the 

 THE BRITISH n.anufacturc, and it is somewhat too early to say 

 anything very definite about the prospects there- 

 of. Its interest to the rubber trade lies in the fact 

 that hospital sheeting is to be largely made, and it is expected 

 that this, on account of price and longevity, will compete se- 

 verely with the ordinary rubber article. An oily smell about 

 these goods seems to me rather a drawback, but this may pos- 

 sibly prove to iTe but a temporary inconvenience. The works 

 are controlled by the Winterbottom Book Cloth Co., a large 

 Manchester concern, and are in effect a branch of a works al- 

 ready established for some time in Germany. So far it must 

 be confessed what has been done in the way of manufacturing 

 artificial leather in this country has not been a success; it may 

 be that the problem has now been solved. 



UNPROFITABLE CABLING ON THE AMAZON. 



PLUVIUM 

 CO. LIMITED. 



AGAIN an unfavorable report is made by the Amazon Tele- 

 graph Co., Limited, on the operation of the submarine 

 cable between Para and Mandos. At the shareholders' meet- 

 ing in London on December 2, the directors reported a gross 

 revenue for the year amounting to /47,ii3 15.?. id., and total 

 expenses of /;47,422 4^. lo^'. One interruption of nine weeks 

 caused an estimated loss of revenue of over /3000. Charging 

 for interest and sinking fund there is a debit balance for the 

 year of ;£i6,oo5 14J. \d., making the total debit balance to date 

 ^85,178 15?. id. The new repair steamer, the Viking II, now 

 on the Amazon, is giving good results. The operation of the 

 new land lines during the year was much more expensive than 

 was anticipated. The company have been seriously incon- 

 venienced by their inability to collect the subsidy due under 

 the concession from the Mandos government, now amounting 

 to ^11,899 3.f. 4rf. The company's ;£io shares have been quoted 

 recently at £-^ and £4, and the ^ 100 5 per cent, debentures at 

 ^70 and ;^8o. 



The Russian-American India-Rubber Co. (St. Petersburg) 

 are making rubber carriage tires which, in a recent publiccom- 

 petition ordered by the St. Petersburg city council, made a 

 good record for not splashing mud. 



