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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February 1, 1913. 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe. 



GOOD BECOBD OF DERMATINE VALVES. 



IX June, 1911, a large sugar refinery in Whitechapel, London, in- 

 stalled an air pump manufactured by W. H. Bailey & Co., Ltd., 

 of Manchester, England. This pump was supplied with the 

 valves made by the Dermatine Co., Ltd., of London. Recently 

 the pump has undergone an inspection, the valves being taken 

 out. They have been re-measured, and it is found that although 

 the pumps have been maintaining a vacuum of over 29 inches 

 night and day for 11 months, the valves have worn on one side 

 less than 3/64 of an inch. The good result attained has been to a 

 ■large degree due to the fact that the valves were fitted with the 

 Patent Anchor Bush which eliminates any tendency to enlarge- 

 ment in the central hole. It thus maintains a high vacuum and 

 avoids the expense of early stoppage of the machinery, and the 

 jjossibility of spoiling the material in process of manufacture. 



NEW COMPOUNDING INGEEDIENT. 



According to the claims made for the new compounding ingre- 

 dient "Corub," recently introduced on the English market, it is 

 specially adapted for mixing with rubber compounds where a 

 large quantity of waste or reclaimed rubber is used, imparting 

 greater elasticity and resiUence to the finished product. At the 

 same time it tends to preserve the rubber. It is supplied in 

 ^various colors. 



MR. CASPEE KRAAY IN LONDON. 



Mr. -Casper Kraay, who is well known in rubber and financial 

 ■circles on both sides of the water, has established himself as 

 a rubber dealer at Dunster House, Mincing Lane, London, E. C, 

 under the style of Casper Kraay & Co. Doubtless we are inter- 

 preting the sentiments of his American friends in wishing him 

 good luck and a prosperous new year. 



A VALTTABLE COMBINATION DIARY. 



Typke & King, Ltd., 16 Mincing Lane, London, india-rubber 

 chemists and chemical manufacturers, have favored their cus- 

 tomers with an extremely convenient desk diary. It is a com- 

 bination diary and writing pad. When folded up it is 11 x 13 

 inches in size; the top, finished in crimson leatherette, opens in 

 the middle, disclosing a blotter pad with leatherette corners and 

 quite large enough for ordinary desk purposes ; while the left 

 •leaf when folded back proves to be a diary about IOJ/2 x 6 inches 

 in size, one week being covered by each page. It is not a par- 

 ticularly inexpensive form of diary — but that will not seriously 

 militate against its welcome by the trade. At the front of the 

 diary there is a calendar for the years 1913 and 1914, together 

 with discount and interest tables, tables of money equivalents in 

 various countries. Post-Ofiice regulations, and other information 

 such as a business man needs for ready reference. 



THE JOSEPH rOTNEY DIARY. 



Joseph Fynney & Co., india-rubber merchants and importers of 

 Liverpool, have issued to their particular branch of the trade, a 

 valuable little diary, of a size to go easily in the pocket, and yet 

 containing pages enough for a memorandum for every day of the 

 year, and besides that, a great volume of information of particular 

 value to the rubber man. For instance, there is a table occupying 

 21 pages showing, for the benefit of raw rubber buyers, the loss in 

 washing rubber — that is, the shrinkage in washing being 

 known, the table gives the money equivalent. Then there is a 

 table occupying a number of pages giving the equivalents of 

 English money per pound, in cents per pound, and in francs and 

 marks per kilo. .Another valuable table gives the equivalent in 

 Icilograms of English weights. Then a number of pages are de- 

 voted to the Para receipts and values for the last seven years. 

 Another table shows vulcanizing pressure and temperature. These 

 are but a few instances of the volume of valuable information 

 this little book contains. 



THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL RUBBER EXHIBITION. 



Mr. A. Staines Mandcrs, the organizing manager of the two 

 rubber expositions held in London in 1908 and 1911 and of the 

 Rubber Exposition recently held in New York, announces the 

 Fourth International Rubber and Allied Trades' Exhibition, to 

 take place in London during June, 1914. It will be under the 

 patronage of His Majesty, King George V; the president will 

 be Sir Henry Blake, G. C. M. G., and the vice-president will be 

 The Right Honorable Lord Elphinstone. In conjunction with 

 this rubber exhibition, occurring at the same time but in another 

 building, will be held the First International Cotton, Fibre, 

 Tropical Products and Allied Trades Exhibition, of which Mr. 

 Manders will also be organizing manager. 



JOSEPH FYNNEY & CO.'S LONDON OFFICE. 



Joseph Fynney & Co., rubber merchants and importers, have 

 recently opened a London office at 155 Fenchurch street, which 

 will deal more particularly with plantation rubbers. 



THE MANUFACTURE OF ELECTRICAL INSTRUMENTS IN EUROPE. 



The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce is about to 

 issue a monograph dealing with the manufacture of electrical 

 instruments and meters in Europe. The report is by H. B. 

 Brooks, commercial agent of the Department of Commerce and 

 Labor, who recently inspected 31 of the most important electrical 

 works of England, France, Germany, and Italy. The products 

 of each concern are treated in detail and descriptions are given 

 of the buildings, equipment, labor conditions, kinds of material 

 used, and the markets in which the products are sold. 



PROGRESS OF DANISH TIRE COMPANY. 



The Danish United Rubber and Tire Co. has paid for the last 

 business year a dividend of 12 per cent, as compared with 10 per 

 cent, for the preceding annual period. Its capital has recently 

 been increased from the equivalent of $84,000 to $140,000. 



CHANGE IN GERMAN TIRE COMPANY. 



The International Rubber Tire Co., Limited, of Wittenberg, 

 Germany, has removed its headquarters to Hamburg; at the 

 same time changing its name to the International Rubber 

 Industry Co., Limited. 



NEW GERMAN AUTOMOBILE FACTORY. 



According to Frankfurt advices a new automobile factory, 

 to be styled the "Taunus" works, is contemplated in the 

 neighborhood of that city. The capital will equal $1,500,000. 

 and will be taken up by Count Posadowsky-Wehner, in con- 

 junction with Herr von Brandenstein. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Some 1,500 skilled workmen and a large number of native 

 laborers are employed in the Cape Province and the Trans- 

 vaal in the manufacture of carriages and automobiles, but 

 there are no builders of chassis in South Africa. Hence the 

 tarifT commissions of the various states have recommended 

 their admission at a normal rate of duty, with the object of 

 encouraging the building of motor bodies in the country. 

 Motor vehicles are gradually superseding in South Africa 

 those drawn by horses. 



The trade mark "Rambler" has been registered in Germany 

 for automobiles by the Thomas B. Jeflfery Co., of Kenosha, 

 Wisconsin. 



Contrasted with a loss for the preceding annual period 

 equaling $92,000, the last business year of the Harburg- 

 Vienna Rubber Factories showed a profit of about $280,000. 

 This result is attributed to absence of the fluctuations in the 

 rubber market which had marked the preceding annual period. 

 A dividend of 6 per cent, has been declared. 



