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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



I.Mav 1, 1911. 



X'ereiiiigte Hantschlauch und Gummiwarcn fabriken at Gotlia 

 At the general meeting recently held, 831,000 shares were repre- 

 sented and the dividend, immediately payable, fixed at 15 per 

 cent. It was unanimously resolved to increase the capital stock 

 by 800.000 marks ($190,400), making the total capital 3,000,000 

 marks ($714,000). The additional 800,000 marks will not share 

 in dividends until January, 1912, and 325,0(X) marks of the pro- 

 ceeds will he used for the purchase of the Frankfurter Gummi- 

 waren fabrik. the balance to be disposed of to present stock- 

 holders .11 tlie rate of 6 to 1. Concerning the trade of the first 

 quarter nf 1911. it was reported that there had been an increase 

 of 15 per cent, and that business was very lively. The directors, 

 in ciniminting on the fact that speculation in crude rubber was 

 declining, stated that this was probably due to the appearance 

 in the market of large quantities of good plantation rubber, 

 which con pettd actively with the Para supply. 



C. Mueller (jummiwaren fabrik, joint stock company, 

 AVeissensec- Berlin, at the recent general meeting, at wliich 362 

 shares wx-re represented, fixed the dividend at 8 per cent. It 

 was also decided to remove the company's headquarters from 

 Berlin to W'eissensce. wlurc the entire business is row con- 

 centrated. 



The Neue .Kutomobilreifeii Fabrik (j. in. Ij. II.. Berlin, has 

 been dissolved. The liquidatic ii was effectetl liy the former 

 managing salesman. Hans Below, of that city. 



FRAN<^. 



TI-.L- Continental S^ ci.te .\nany;iie de Caoutchouc Manufac- 

 ture, of Paris, which recently made an addition of 1,50[),0(X) 

 francs ($2)*3.000) to its capital, lias declare. I a ili\ideiul of 20 

 per cent. 



J. B. Torrilhon, founder and for many years head of the 

 well-known firm of Torrilhon, and one of the earliest to en- 

 gage in the rubber manufacturing industry in France, is dead, 

 aged 87 years. The business will be continued by his two sons. 



M. Lip.schitz and 1'. Jacobo3^-itz, liave established a business 

 as dealers in rubbcr->waste at Montreuil-sous-Bois, with a capital 

 of 20,000 francs ($S,^00). 



Societe Anonyme des Bandages lilastii|ues .\udie, has been 

 formed at Chatellerault, capital 500,000 francs ($95,0(X)). 



The fcrmer manager of the Burdeau.x branch of the firm of 

 Poncin Dusendschon & Co., dealers in crcde rubber, Paris, Mr. 

 R. Van Bacr, has severed his connection with the firm to start 

 in busir.ess for himself. Her.ri ikilivan, of the main office in 

 Paris, has been placed in charge of the branch in question with 

 full powers. 



DENMARK. 



Skandinavisk Gumnii eg Cytle IX]'' t. .\ndersen & Klosler. 

 Rubber and bicycle dealers, has been registered commercially at 

 Odense. .\. ''. .Andersen and J. S. Kloster. proprietors. 



Kabelfabrik _.'<tieselkabel Nordiske Kabet og Traad fabriker. 

 with factories in Copenhagen, l-'rederiksberg and Mid.llefart. 

 has distributed lor 1910 a dividci d of 6 per cent,, compared with 

 S'/i p*er cent, in 1909, and 4 per cent, in 1908. In place of the 

 deceased privy state councillor J. Glueckstadt, his son. hank 

 director Emil Glueckstadt, has been elected chairman of the 



Board of Directors. 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



Cairns Tyre Co., Ltd., has been formed, with a capital of 

 iKO,000 ($389,320), to carry on the automobile tire business 

 heretofore conducted by J. Cairns & P. Collins, at Walsall. The 

 company's specialty is a patent stud tire, which, while essenti- 

 ally pneumatic, obtaining its efficiency through confined air, is 

 constructed on an entirely new principle, involving division of 

 the air tube into sections, each with two or three air spaces. 



Mr. J. W. O. Walker has resigned his position as general man- 

 ager at the new works of the Wood-Milne Co., Limited, at Ley- 

 land, a step which has caused some surprise in the trade. It is 

 not so many months ago that Mr Walker gave up the positio:i 



of general manager at Messrs. Reddaway & Co.. Limited, to take 

 up the post he has just vacated at the new Wood-Milne works, 

 where tires and mechanical goods are to be made in addition to 

 the well-known heel pads. 



F. Reddaway & Co., Limited (Manchester, England), manu- 

 facturers of camel's hair belting and sphincter grip hose, is rep- 

 represented in Mexico by .Alfredo Lockhart ; headcpiartcrs Puebla. 



RUSSIAN ADVI(^ CONCERNING RECLAIMING. 



To THE Editor ok The I.vuia Ribbek Wom.u: Sir. — According 

 to all accounts, the Imsincss of reclaiming rubber in America 

 does not flourish, because the Russian rubber reclaiming works, 

 of which there are only two in Russia, compete actively with 

 them in Europe in the sale of reclaimed rubber, being able 

 to purchase old rubber shoes at a less price than their American 

 competitors. 



When old rubber shoes are exported from Russia, an export 

 duty of IVs rubles per pood (77'4 cents per 36.11 pounds) must 

 be paid on them, while on shipments of reclaimed rubber there 

 is no export duty, consequently old rubber shoes cost the Rus- 

 sian manufacturer, in addition to freight and insurance, Ij^ 

 rubles ( 77'4 cents ) per pood less than the American rubber 

 works must pay for them, so that the Russian rubber reclaim- 

 ing works can compete successfulh' in Europe with the .Ameri- 

 can works in the sale of reclaimed rubber. 



In America, the Russian rubber works cannot compete with 

 the .American rubber reclaiming works in the sale of reclaimed 

 rubber, because the latter have managed so that .America levies 

 a duty on reclaimed rubber. 



That, however, about fifty American rubber reclaiming works 

 allow themselves to be crowded out of the European market 

 by two Russian rubber works is hardly credible. 



The associations of .American rubber reclaiming works are 

 ccrstantly holdirg meetings and endeavoring to force down 

 the prices for old rubber : it would have been much more sen- 

 sible on their part it they had united to use every effort to 

 obtaii" the repeal of the Russian export tax on old rubber shoes. 



If the .American governn'ent cannot succeed in eflfecting this 

 result through the Russian government, they should endeavor 

 to ii fluence the German government to get this change effected 

 in Russia. .Anerica could irduce Germany to do this, with the 

 alternative of placing an import ta.x on various German products. 



(Germany can compel Russia to allow the exportation of 

 old rubber shoes without duty because, in the Russo-German 

 tariff agreement of July 15-23. 1904, under Section 11 it 

 places the export tax on rubber waste at lyi rubles per pood 

 (= $.2575 per 36.1130 pounds) but this cannot be held to in- 

 clude, in any case, old ri-bber shoes. 



On the 719 March. 1906, the Russian customs bureau has 

 decided that old rubber shoes should come under this classifi- 

 cation ard tl-.at :ni export tax of lyi rubles per pood should 

 also be collected on them, but this is improper; first, because 

 (ild rubber shoes cannot be classed as rubber waste, then again 

 the Russian customs Inireau had no right to make such a 

 decision in 1906, because the tariff agreement with Germany 

 had already been entered into in 1904. 



Consequently Germany can very easily put this through, 

 if America will induce them to do it. 



The export tax on rubber wastes has been brought about in 

 Russia by two Russian rubber works ; is it not possible for fifty 

 -American rubber reclaiming works to induce their government 

 to aid them in this respect, the more so as the Russian customs 

 bureau had no right to order, in 1906, that an export tax must 

 be paid on old rubber shoes? 



If the Russian rubber works have in this manner worked 

 against the American rubber reclaiming works the latter should 

 not hesitate to work against the Russian rubber works. 



.A. IvANOW. 

 St. Petersburg. 22 January (4 February). 1911. 



