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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD. 



[May I, 1 90 1. 



material was to have been manufactured at the works of the 

 Hyde Imperial Rubber Co. (Woodley), for which purpose a 

 special building was erected. Dialene, it may be mentioned, is 

 said to be a superior form of recovered rubber which has 

 proved its advantages in a certain rubber works where it has 

 been made and used. 



This company, one of the newest in Great Britain, has now 

 been going for about a year, the works being situated at Dun- 

 fermline, Scotland. Messrs. R. W. Stewart 

 SCOTTISH CENTRAL gr Qq [he proprietors, have taken up the 



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rubber busmess as an addition to their old 

 established bleaching business, the rubber works being a newly 

 built addition to the bleaching premises. Waterproofing and 

 footwear are the principal lines of manufacture, the lead of the 

 Victoria and Waverley companies of Edinburgh thus being 

 followed. It is probable, however, that the manufacture of 

 mechanicals will also receive attention in the near future. 



One of the new London dailies recently, in a special article, 



advocated the utility of India-rubber as a means of deadening 



the vibration caused by the new electric rail- 



A BRILLIANT ^^ ij.^^ f^e West End to the city. The rub- 



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ber was to be partially as a solid and partially 

 pneumatic, and to lie directly under the rail. It does not ap- 

 pear, however, that the genius who evolved the idea troubled 

 himself as to the probable cost of the scheme, and it is this 

 point chiefly that has caused practical men to treat the matter 

 as a chimera. 



Although the mill which this new company are fitting up 



is not yet completely equipped, manufacturing commenced 



last month to a small extent, a couple of 



NORTH CHESHIRE spreading machines having been got to 



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work. 

 Mr. Eccles, late manager of the Castle Rubber Co. (War- 

 rington), has been appointed manager of the rubber depart- 

 ment of Reddaway & Co., Limited, the well-known 

 CHANGES belting manufacturers, and has vacated his posi- 

 tion on the board of the Rubber Manufacturers' 

 Association.==Mr. Dawes, late of Capon Heaton & Co., is the 

 new manager at the Hyde Imperial Rubber Co., where several 

 alterations in the directorate and staff have recently been 

 effected.^ --Mr. Bate, who has long been connected with the 

 works, is now the manager at the Castle Rubber Co.==Mr. 

 C. J. Margetson, formerly manager of the London branch of 

 the Avon Rubber Co., is now at Messrs. Hopkinson's works at 

 West Drayton. 



With the collapse of " Fenton's " and " Oxolin," further il- 

 lustrations are afforded of the dubious character of such indus- 

 trial enterprises as investments. Information 

 RUBBER with regard to the present position of " Velvril " 

 ^.'if^IlL'^J.f is difficult to obtain, and there is nothirg defi- 



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nite to be recorded concerning the progress of 

 this material. " Volenite Limited," having been wound up 

 and reconstructed, is now making a fresh bid for popular favor 

 in connection with a material into which Pontianak gum is 

 said to enter largely. 



Things seem to be rather quiet in this department, and in 



some cases short time has been worked. With regard to the 



large profit made by Mandleburg & Co., it should 



PROOFING (jg remembered that the firm have done a large 



TRADE. ' 



trade in rain proof cloths, into which rubber does 

 not enter, and it should also be remembered that for some 

 years after its formation the company paid no dividend at all, 

 and it is possible — though this is merely conjectural — that it 

 may have been hoarding its resources. With regard to the ef- 

 fect which the rain proof cloth business has had upon the gen- 



uine mackintosh trade, it seems to be the case that it has been 

 quite insignificant. The people who have been most affected 

 are the tailors and outfitters, as the waterproof firms now sup- 

 ply direct overcoats at a considerable less cost than the tailors 

 have been accustomed to do. 



It seems doubtful if many of the motor tires sold of late 



years in England have been really of British origin. These 



tires, the pneumatic ones, that is, cannot be sold in 



MOTOR Qreat Britain except under the Dunlop company's 



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license, but there is nothing to prevent this company 

 or its licensees from buying them cheaply on the continent and 

 retailing them at their own figure over here. This, I am as- 

 sured, has been the case, though now the Dunlop company are 

 putting down the necessary vulcanizing molds, etc., at their 

 works in Birmingham, in order to carry out this increasing trade 

 entirely themselves. Whether they will succeed in gaining the 

 confidence of the buyers is rather a matter tor conjecture, as it 

 may be supposed that there are many details in connection with 

 the celebrated Michelin tire, of France, which are not public 

 property, and the acquisition of which may take considerable 

 time and labor. 



Mr. David Moselev still remains in a very weak condition 



and is making but slow progress towards recovery. = = Mr. H. 



L. Terry has been elected a memberof the commit- 



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tee of the Manchester section of the Society of 

 Chemical Industry of which society Dr. Charles F. Chandler, 

 of New York, was last year's president. 



EUROPEAN RUBBER NOTES. 



ACCORDING to the India-Rubber Journal, the London 

 agent for the Russian-American India Rubber Co. (St. 

 Petersburg) reports a steady increase of trade at his agency, 

 "although the shapes for Russian use and the English market 

 are very different. "=^By the way, Russian manufactures are 

 to be shown on an extensive scale at the international exhibi- 

 tion which is to be opened this month at Glasgow, and rubber 

 goods are mentioned among the products which are to receive 

 special attention. No doubt the Russian " galoches " will be 

 displayed prominently there. It does not appear that the 

 British rubber industry is to be represented at Glasgow to any 

 important extent. 



=J. Mandclberg & Co., Limited (Pendleton, Manchester, 

 England), mackintosh manufacturers, report a profit for the 

 past business year of _£48,862 155. -^d. Dividends have been 

 declared of 7 per cent, on the preference and 1 5 per cent, on the 

 ordinary shares, after paying 5 per cent, interest on the deben- 

 tures — a total disbursement of ^^25,082 15^. The reserve fund 

 was increased by ^15,000. 



= Mr. Isidor Frankenburg, of the Greengate Rubber and 

 Cable Works, Salford, Manchester, who had been a member of 

 the Salford council since 1887, was recently elected to the posi- 

 tion of alderman. 



= Dr. Carl Otto Weber, for many years past managing chem- 

 ist for Isidor Frankenburg, Limited, of Manchester, was re- 

 cently elected a director in that corporation. 



= The Vereinigte Gummiwaaren-Fabriken Harburg-Wien, 

 in answer to an inquiry, inform The India Rubber World 

 that they have not, as was reported, established a branch at 

 Dresden- Radebeul for the manufacture of their pneumatic 

 tires, but simply an agency for their sale. 



= The United Berlin-Frankfort India Rubber Co. have de- 

 clared a dividend of 7 per cent, on the business done in 1900, 

 thus restoring the dividend to the former rate, after having 

 paid only 5 per cent, in 1899. 



