December 1, 1920 



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exhibits representative of the achievements and possibilities of 

 the Gold Coast and its dependencies. 



Arrangements for the participation of the British West Indies 

 are under the supervision of Algernon E. Aspinall, C.M.G., 

 O.B.E., secretary of the West Indies Committee. Trinidad was 

 among the first of the islands to apply for space. 



Brazil will occupy the same large space as on previous occa- 

 sions and the Sao Paulo Government has, as usual, taken a sepa- 

 rate space for a special display. 



The exhibits shown by the various governments will embrace 

 the interests not only of the rubber industry hut of many other 

 tropical products, such as oils and cotton, which are directly 

 essential to the welfare of that industry, and of timbers, paper- 

 making materials, foodstuffs, etc., which play a vital part in rubber 

 developments. 



The exhibition has the cordial support of the Rubber Growers' 

 Association, the Rubber Manufacturers' Association of France, 

 the West African sections of the Liverpool Chamber of Com- 

 merce, the Federation of British Industries, the Geographical 

 Society of Lisbon and numerous other commercial associations 

 and scientific bodies. Among the firms which have secured space 

 for exhibits are many prominent producers of raw materials, 

 manufacturers of machinery, tools, compounding ingredients, etc., 

 and leading merchants in tropical products and allied industries. 



Full particulars may be obtained from the overseas delegate, 

 Miss Edith A. Browne, F.R.G.S.. Exhibition Offices, 43 Essex 

 street. Strand, London, W. C. 2, England. 



POST-WAR DEVELOPMENTS IN BRITISH MOTOR 



TIRES 

 By Mark Meredith 



DESPITE the fact that the price of raw rubber has shown heavy 

 declines, there has been no reduction in the price of motor 

 tires. On the contrary, apparently they are mounting. This is 

 due in part to the high cost of cotton, and partly to the high 

 cost of labor, as well as shipping and so forth. As to rubber and 

 cotton, some of the great tire producers grow their own. 



But the greatest post-war development touches rim design. 

 It is plain that at no distant date the straight-side American tire 

 will become universal. .-Ks far as existing motor vehicles are 

 concerned, the older types will continue to use clincher tires, be- 

 cause the straight-side tire needs a different sort of rim. 



The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders' sub-com- 

 mittee concerned with tires, as well as the tire trade's own or- 

 ganization, has for a long time been dealing with the question 

 of reducing the number of sizes of tires on the market. Some 

 practical progress was made in this direction before the war. 

 Much remains to be done, however, towards economizing cost 

 and reducing the necessity for local agents carrying very large 

 stocks of perishable goods.. The solution is to reduce the total 

 number of tire sizes, and that rests largely with car designers. 



Perhaps the most signifu-ant development is the application of 

 the pneumatic tire to utility vehicles, even of the 3^-ton to 5- 

 ton varieties. Before the war it would have been practically im- 

 possible for pneumatic tires to be employed for this class of 

 work. During the campaign, however, such tremendous strides 

 were made in the evolution of exceedingly strong pneumatic tires, 

 as notably those corded types produced by Palmer for aircraft, 

 that there is now no difficulty in providing the strength necessary 

 for carrying heavy vehicles and their loads and for transmitting 

 the power necessary to propel them. As to cost, we are not in 

 the experimental stage. There has been for a long time in 

 progress in America a big development in this direction, and the 

 results are being followed with the closest attention by the trans- 

 Atlantic industry. Under the heading of economy, the pneumatic 

 tire applied to the heavy utility motor vehicle comes out well 

 on top. It enormously reduces shock, economizes road wear and 



tear to a remarkable extent. It goes a long way towards solving 

 the problem of vibration occasioned by the continuous passage 

 of such vehicles up and down thoroughfares flanked by houses. 



Manufacturers are, therefore, making every preparation for 

 building utility motor vehicles of the heaviest sizes to be equipped 

 with pneumatic tires. Moreover, British tire manufacturers have 

 now devoted more than a year to experiments in this connec- 

 tion, with the result that they feel confident that the time has 

 arrived at which they can also standardize such tires and guar- 

 antee the results. 



Thus, at the time that the roads of Great Britain arc being 

 taken in hand by the goverimient at the motorists" expense, we 

 have the welcome prospect that in future a large proportion of 

 utility motor vehicles will not destroy them at the rate they have 

 done in the past. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN EUROPE 

 By a Special Correspondent 



GREAT BRITAIN 



r^ECL.\RED EXPORTS of rubber from London to the Lhiited States 

 '-^ during the nine months ended September 30. 1920, totaled 

 $30,259,702, as against $13,863,539 in the corresponding period 

 in 1919. Attention may be drawn to the striking fall in the 

 value of raw rubber exported from London in Septemljer, 1920, 

 which was only $17,666 as against $590,005 in September of the 

 preceding year. 



.Among the articles imported from the United States into Liv- 

 erpool during the years 1918 and 1919, the following were listed 

 under nondutiable goods: 



1918 1919 > 



Quantity V'alue Quantity N'alue 

 XoN -Dutiable Goods 



Air|jlanes, airships, balloons, antl 



parts of $5,933,109 $8,885,265 



Rubber; 



Boots and shoes dosen [rairs 6,372 254,774 32,502 271,512 



Tires and tubes and accessories 219,893 



Manufactures, n. e. s 910,399 957,046 



Waste and reclaimed centals .... 6,330 98,678 



Cntla-pcrcha, crude hundredweight 9A9» 703,676 752 62,159 



Exports of crude rubber from Liverpool to the United Slates 

 in 1919 were 7,247,838 pounds, valued at $2,985,350, as against 

 191,186 pounds, valued at $49,230 in 1918. 



.Recent reports from Great Britain contain an account of an 

 extraordinary general meeting of the The Dmilop Rubber Com- 

 pany, Limited, held in London, September 11, 1920, for the pur- 

 pose of considering a resolution to increase the capital to £20,- 

 000,000 by the creation of 2,500,000 one-pound shares, and a 

 further resolution to capitalize £7.500,000 and pay a bonus of 

 three pounds free of income tax to the ordinary shareholders by 

 the allotment of one-pound shares to tliat amount. 



A. L. Ormrod, who presided, announced that the increase in 

 capital stock would provide the company with authorized capital 

 more than sufficienl for the capitalizing of £7,500,000 and the 

 payment of the proposed bonus. Sir Henry Dalziel seconded 

 the resolutions, which were carried unanimously, thereby nearly 

 trebling the company's capitalization, which is now approxi- 

 mately $100,000,000. 



Tlu- U'dsic Trade Journal, 150 Lafayette street. New York 

 City, has opened offices at 32 Great Tower street, London, 

 E. C. 3, England, in order to give its readers more efficient 

 service. A competent reportorial staff has been engaged to 

 gather news concerning the cotton, rubber and other industries 

 of interest to its readers, and special facilities for advising and 

 assisting the trade with regard to foreign business have been 

 made available. 



A. G. Spalding & Bros., sporting goods dealers, have removed 

 from Buchanan street to their new quarters at 335 Sauchiehall 

 street, Glasgow, Scotland. 



