July i, 1901.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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Published on the 1st of each Uonth by 



THE INDIA RUBBER PUBLISHING CO. 



No. 150 NASSAU ST,. NEW YORK. 



HENRY C. PEARSON, 



EDITOR. 



HAWTHORNE HILL, 



ASSOCIATE. 



Vol. 24. 



JULY 1. 1901. 



No. 4. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Editorial : 



A New Tendency in the Industry. 

 Minor Editorial 



Literature of India-Rubber 



The Manufacture of Rubber Hose— a Review Richard A. Leigh. 



The Dunlop Tyre Co.'s New Process 



Combinationof Cotton Duck Mills 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Hegular Correspondent. 



[Leyland and Birmingham Rubber Co. Droylsden Rubber Works 

 Sold. Pegamoid Patents Invalid. New Motor Tires. Jenkins Pack- 

 ing. Brattice Cloth. Longevity of Indi.-i-iubber. Spencer Moulton 

 & Co.] 



Report of a German Rubber Company 



Growth of Balata Production ii/lus'rn/ed) 



The Rubber Tire Interest (///iisrrafcd) 



The Rubber Planting Interest 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber (iltotrated) 



[New Hose .Attachment. " Holdfast " Bath Spray. Forsyth Golf Ball. 

 '• Pullman " Lawn Sprinkler. Tne Latest Water Bottle. Hoover 

 Breast Pump. Morrison Surgical Pads. Swimming Gloves. " La 

 Favoiite" Landing M.it. "Plug" Rubber Heel.] 



Heard and Seen in the Trade 



Some Wants of the Rubber Trade 



Exports of American Rubber Goods 



Recent Rubber Patents (American and English] 



Deaths in the Rubber Trade 



[With Portraits of Lewis Elliott and John C. Hardman.] 

 Misoellaneous : 



Rubber Waterproofing In Ectiador 



The "Solicum" Subsiluife '. 



The Picketi Pneumatic Valve ( Jiius/rafed) 



Senator Ur. Heinrlch TrauD 



New Trade Publications 



American (las Tubing In England .......... 



RiibberStanip Signatures 



Duty on Elastic Braids 



Ventilation of a New Mill "...'.. 



Regarding Titles to Rubber Lands 



Strike in a German Rubber Factory 



Other Rubber Notes from Europe 



ACard Chas.A.Cano. 



Rubber From a Mexican Plantation 



A New Firm in Substitntes 



The Rubber Trust and its Work (J(/tt«fra(«tJ) 



Newsof the Amerian Rubber Trade 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 



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A NEW TENDENCY IN THE INDUSTRY. 



■p'ROM its beginning the manufacture of rubber goods 

 in the UnitetJ .States was divided into a variety of 

 lines, each fairly complete in itself, and, as a rule, involv- 

 ing no knowledge of any other. For example, in a factory 

 producing rubber footwear, little was known about the 

 compounds, machinery, or processes employed by a factory 

 producing clothing, mechanical rubber goods, sundries, 

 and so on, nor did the selling force in one branch of the 

 industry know anything at all regarding the sales methods 

 employed in the other lines of rubber manufacture. The 

 one notable exception to this rule was the National India 

 Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island) which, during its 

 palmy days, made goods in nearly all of the important 

 lines. 



Most of the American manufacturers criticised such an 

 aggregation as tending to confusion. Their motto was 

 the ancient one " Cobbler stick to your last" — meaning 

 the specific line on which the factory was first started. 



In marked contrast to this custom is that of the most 

 successful European manufacturers, who make nearly 

 everything in hard and soft rubber under one roof, and 

 are willing to take small orders for anything that a cus- 

 tomer may desire. 



Within the last two \ears there has been apparent a 

 change in the attitude of the American rubber manufact- 

 urers. It was first shown by the general desire on the part 

 of the leaders to inform themselves fully regarding the 

 market for all kinds of rubber goods. Sooner or later this 

 has been followed by the addition of some line that has 

 seemed at first blush to be entirely foreign to their expe- 

 rience, and often not in keeping with their organization or 

 equipment. In few cases, however, have these added de- 

 partments proved anything but profitable, and in certain 

 instances they have grown so as to overshadow the origi- 

 nal business. Instead of devoting a factory to some single 

 rubber product, the tendency, particularly in the mechan- 

 ical and sundries trades, is to be equipped both with knowl- 

 edge and courage to grapple with any problem in either 

 rubber or Guttapercha that may show a profit. 



This does not mean that in the immediate future every 

 rubber factory will make a complete line of staples in all 

 divisions of the rubber manufacture, but it does point to 

 a definite forward step. Until a manufacturer is fairly 

 familiar with all of the manipulations of rubber that are 

 employed in all lines he is not equipped to get the best 

 results in his own. Nor can he secure such knowledge in 

 its best form unless he himself does such manipulation for 

 dollars and cents. 



The addition of Gutta percha goods, Balata specialties, 

 hard rubber, shoes, dress shields, insulated wire, and a host 

 of other lines to factories that in the past have produced 

 only mechanical goods, sundries, or clothing promises not 

 only an added profit to the manufacturer, but the devel- 

 opment of new ideas and a definite broadening of trade 

 knowledge. Besides, it may often afford an opportunity, 

 when trade in one branch is dull, to keep the factory em- 

 ployed profitably on another line of goods. 



