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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1911. 



Hutchinson," as well as Mons. Mougeot. President, and M. 

 Roger Xogiies, Director General of the Societe Sanglia- 

 Onbanghi. 



ANGOLA, PORTUGUESE WEST AFRICA. 



From this colony were shown samples of Cenra rubber from 

 the Glaziovii and the Jequie, tapping ntensils employed and 

 photographs, the exhibits being from Portuguese estates. The 

 Commercial .A-Sscciation of Loando, also exhibited fine photo- 

 graphs of rubber plantings. 



CRIIIE RUBBER. 



The Imperial Institute, London, furnished a graphic summary 

 of the rubber resources of the whole British Empire. Twenty- 

 eight countries were represented, and for all of them statistics. 

 photographs and samples of rubber were shown. 



Four of the dock companies, who store so much of the world's 

 rubber, exhibited photographs of their warehouses and vaults. 



There were also exhibits arranged by rubber sliare brokers, 



MANUFACTURED RUBBER GOODS. 



English manufacturers who exhibited were few in number, 

 but the exhibits were very comprehensive. The goods shown 

 covered almost every ordinary use of rubber. Xotable parts 

 of the exhibits were the cinematograph show of the North 

 British Rubber Co. Much interest also attached to the working 

 exhibit of the Premier Reforming Co., who made waste rubber 

 directly into goods without devulcanization. 



A Japanese rubber factory also showed elastic webbings for 

 aeroplanes, of their own make. 



RUBBER MILL AND PLANTATION MACHINERY. 



There were no less than twenty-five exhibitors of rubber ma- 

 chinery of English production, of which David Bridge & Co.. 

 Limited, had the most complete assemblage. The exhibits em- 

 braced washing, creping and blocking machines, coagulators, 

 centrifugals, smoking and drying ovens for plantation work, a 

 large line of regular rubber machinery, together with late.x carts. 



Kkriiert V\ r;cht. 

 ■Editor, India Rubber ]ui.rn..l. Lrndon. 



Henry C. Pearson, 

 ■'diti r, 1 !:c .iidia Kubbc-- World. New York. 



Ceopce Si Fixer r. 

 Editor, "Cumir.i-Zeiti.nx, I'erlin. 



a crude rubber washing company, and llic Uiilisb .Mi;rac Syndi- 

 cate, Limited. 



As synthetic rubber is to be classed as crude rubber, the 

 notable exhibit of the Caoutchouc Syndicate should be n:ei'- 

 ticned here. T hey ii tcrested many by converting Isoprcne i.,lo 

 rubber before a committee of experts. What the Isoprer.e cost 

 did not appear. 



SUPPLIES FOR RUBBER MANUFACTURERS. 



Three companies showed almost every type of compounding 

 ingredients, and rubber substitutes. There were also coagulat- 

 ing chemicals, and a notable exhibit of canvas for general me- 

 chanical r.;bber use. 



RECLAIMED RinBER AND MINERAL RUBBER. 



With the Northwestern Rubber Co., Limited, the Rubber Re- 

 generating Co., Limited, and the British Recovered Rubber Co., 

 Limited, as exhibitrrs, this very necessary adjunct to crude 

 rubber was well represented. 



Mineral rubber also came in for much attention, the three 

 exhibitors, A. H. Alden & Co., Limited, The .•\merican Wax 

 Co.. and the Canadian Mineral Rubber Co., all showing many 

 informing samples. 



tappirg devices, latex cups in g'.a;s, a'.ir.r in.-.m, sait g a: ed wr.re, 

 and so on, ad infiiiituiii. 



Of .A.merican concerns showing rubber iraliig machincr/ 

 were: 1 be Farrel Foundry & Machine Co. The Binri-.-jham 

 Iron F'oundrv, Hobman & Maurer. Bramball. Dean & Co. 



THE RUBBER CONFERENCE. 



Sir Henry .\. Blake, G. C. M. G., opened the conference by re- 

 viewing briefly rulibcr growing the world over, stating that the 

 acreage had doubled since the last exhibition. He spoke of 

 synthetic rubber as something that for the present would probably 

 not be manufactured conunercially. 



It was really a series of conferences at which various 

 essays were read followed by most interesting discussions. 

 As the papers are to form the subject of a special publication 

 later, we here give only the titles of the essays and the names 

 of the authors, and a very brief explanation of the subject 

 matter. 



"Rubber and Balata Industries of British Guiana " F. .\. 

 Stockdalc, B. A., 1'. L. S. 



