February i, 1902.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER ^A^ORLD 



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Copyright, 1902, hy H. A. Gould. 



A CARD. 



TO THE Editor OF THE India Rubber World: Our at- 

 tention has been drawn to the fact that you published in 

 your issue of January i, in the notes from your regular corre- 

 spondent in Great Britain, the following paragraph : 



I understand that proceedings are being taken by E. G. Wood, of the 

 patent Self Gripping Fabric Tyre against the " Radax " tire of Man- 

 chester, and the Swain Tyre Co., of Horwich, for alleged infringement. 



In your next issue we request you to withdraw this state- 

 ment, and apologise for having issued same, for it is entirely 

 without foundation, and, unless you do this, we shall imme- 

 diately take legal proceedings against you. Yours truly, 



THE SWAIN PATENTS SYNDICATE. LTD., 



Walter Swain. Managing iJirector. 

 Horwich, Lancashire [England] January 21, 1902. 



KING LEOPOLD SELLING RUBBER ? 



A FUNNY story reaches us from Paris. At a recent ex- 

 hibition of motors and motor tires the King of the 

 Belgians paused for a moment at the stand of the maison Tal- 

 bot to watch the work of a new lever for putting on pneumatic 

 tires, and incidentally asked the representative where their 

 rubber was obtained. As the company sell all sorts of goods 

 the answer naturally was, " From all parts." His majesty then 

 said: " You would find the Congo Free State rubber good," 

 and counselled the making of purchases for the continent at 

 Antwerp instead of at Liverpool. When he had left the stand 



a spectator, with the true Parisian shrug of his shoulders, ap- 

 proached the representative and said: "Well, when the king 

 wants a place he can always find a good one as eommercial 

 traveller for he pushes his articles at all times." — The India- 

 Rubber Journal. 



Ernest L. Baldwin, formerly vice president of the Dia- 

 mond Belting and Packing Co. (New York), having resigned, 

 has accepted a position as selling agent for New York and 

 vicinity, for the Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Jersey 

 City, N. J.). Mr. Baldwin has opened an office at No. 150 

 Nassau street. New York, and is pushing the Voorhees goods 

 with characteristic energy and success. 



Weise & Co.. India-rubber and Gutta percha merchants, ad- 

 vise The India Ruuber World, that Mr. Jacob Musly, who 

 has had powers of procuration for several years, was admitted 

 to their firm on January i. 



The International Wheel, Tire and Rubber Manufacturing 

 Co. have been incorporated in New Jersey, witn an authorized 

 capital of $3,000,000. Parties at New Brunswick, New Jersey, 

 are among the signers of the papers. 



The Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co., Limited (London and 

 Birmingham, England) send us a new and very handsome 

 edition of " All About Dunlop Tyres," issued for the year 1902. 

 The distinctive features of the Dunlop tire are well set forth, 

 with the plentiful aid of illustrations. [4^'X7X'- 44 pages.] 



