January 1, 1921 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



267 



G.m.b.H, Vienna. He was formerly a partner of Metzeler & Co. 

 in Munich, and first came to Vienna as representative of that 

 firm. He was the first president of the Austrian Association of 

 Surgical Rubber Goods Wholesale Dealers. 



THE EDITOR'S BOOK TABLE 



BAMBER'S RUBBER CACULATOR BOOK. MACLAREN & SONS, 

 1-imitcd, 37 Shoe I.ane, London. Flexible leather, 4jki by 6ii inches, 

 65 pages. 



THIS is a collection of data arranged in convenient pocket form 

 for the use of works managers, superintendents, cost clerks, 

 salesmen and others who require to ascertain weights of certain 

 rubber goods for purposes of manufacture or quotation, in either 

 English or metric units. Tables are furnished for washers, disks, 

 gas tubing and solid cord, ranging in specific gravity from 1.00 

 to 2.00. These are duplicated in Englisli and metric measures and 

 cover the full range of sizes in the goods mentioned. Tables are 

 included showing specific gravities and corresponding weights 

 per cubic inch, and per cubic foot and cubic inches per pound. 

 There is also included a table of equivalent times and tempera- 

 tures for vulcanization for the adjustment of curing conditions. 

 The work is prefaced in English, French, Italian and Spanish, 

 with notations concerning the value and use of the tables. It is 

 worthy of consideration as a practical help for busy rubber 

 factory executives, salesmen and merchants. 



THE TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL EDITION OF HENDRICK'S COM- 

 mercial Register of the United States for Buyers and Sellers. S. E. 

 Hendricks Co.. Inc.. 70 Fifth avenue. New York City. Cloth, 2572 + 

 164 pages. 75^ by 10 inches. 



This annual register of producers, manufacturers, dealers and 

 consumers which has just appeared for 1921, is indispensable as 

 a buyers' reference for men of every industry and business activi- 

 ty. The rubber industry is well represented in machinery as well 

 as in manufacturing. In order that the wealth of information 

 contained in the volume shall be readily accessible, it is divided 

 into sections, indicated in color on the edges of the leaves, namely : 

 Index to Trades; Classified Trades Section; Trade Names Sec- 

 tion; Alphabetical Section; Advertisers' Index. A Service Bureau 

 is maintained free of charge by the publishers for the assistance 

 of users of the register. In case one cannot find the information 

 wished for, a request to the bureau will enlist its services to find 

 the article or manufacturer required, and a reply will be promptly 

 tent. 



"EXPORT REGISTER OF THE FEDERATION OF BRITISH INDUS- 

 tries." Industrial Publicity Service, Limited, London, 1920. Cloth, 

 312 pages, 7 by 9'A inches. 



"The Export Register of the Federation of British Industries" 

 is an epitome of all British industry, and is the first book of its 

 class to give a comprehensive survey of this broad field and to 

 be of real service to all who use or buy British goods throughout 

 the world. It is divided by an industrial grouping system, with 

 an elastic number of groups, of which Rubber, Asbestos, Leather 

 and Allied Trades is an important member, with five subdivisions. 

 Principal business houses are grouped under firm names and 

 also listed under the names of their products in the index of 

 manufactures and products. The Federation of British Industries 

 was founded during the war and occupies a predominant place 

 in British industry today. 



NEW, TRADE PUBLICATIONS 



THE Year Book of the .American Chamber of Commerce in 

 London (Inc.) for 1920 is an interesting compilation contain- 

 ing lists of officers, directors, committees and membership, together 

 with the president's report for the year and the by-laws of the 

 Chamber. The aims of the Chamber, which was organized in 1916, 



are to promote friendship and trade between the United States and 

 Great Britain. In America it works closely with the Chamber of 

 Commerce of the United States and the leading trade and finan- 

 cial organizations. In Great Britain the Chamber has established 

 useful working relations with the British Government and the 

 leading British commercial and industrial organizations. Among 

 the associate members are several of the most important Ameri- 

 can manufacturers of the principal lines of rubber goods, such 

 as footwear, tires, mechanicals, etc. 



A MOST COMPLETE CATALOG OF HARDWARE AND PLUMBERS* RUBBE? 



specialties has just been issued by the Lavelle Rubber Co., 

 413-421 North Franklin street, Chicago, Illinois. It is well 

 printed, profusely illustrated, and describes everything in the 

 line from anti-splashers to welding hose. 



An ESTEEMED BRITISH CONTEMPORARY, The Financier, London, 

 oldest among financial daily papers in that city, has recently 

 published a 16-page pamphlet entitled "A Tax on Turnover." 

 The solution set forth of the nation's fiscal problem, which is no 

 less applicable to the affairs of the United States, was first 

 advocated in England by The Financief, which believes it to be 

 "the only safe and effective substitute for the excess profits duty 

 which now cripples industry and trade, inflates prices, causes 

 unemployment and is largely responsible for prevailing discon- 

 tent." 



INTERESTING LETTERS FROM OUR READERS 



A BRIEF FOR OFFICIAL RUBBER FIGURES 



To THE Editor : 



P\EAR SIR: In analyzing the article in The India Rubber 

 '-^ World, December 1, 1920, covering "The Rubber Surplus 

 and its Relation to Future Tire Production," written by Richard 

 Hoadley Tingley, my attention was drawn to Table 1, showing 

 the world's production, consumption and surplus of rubber from 

 1912 to 1919, inclusive, and on comparing his "consumption" 

 figures of 1912 to 1917 with the figures as compiled by the War 

 Service Committee of the Rubber Industry of the U. S. A., I 

 am unable to reconcile them, and would request further informa- 

 tion that will explain these differences satisfactorily. 



If you will refer to the second chart of the memorandum 

 prepared by the War Service Committee, and particularly to the 

 lower half of the chart which covers "World's Consumption," 

 you will note that the figures given on United States consump- 

 tion agree with the charted lines accurately, but when you com- 

 pare the figures of the consumption of the "Rest of the World" 

 with the drawn chart you will find that the figures are only 

 shown for Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy, and no 

 figures are recorded for "The Rest of the World" as shown on 

 the chart in pink color. For instance, take the year 1916, the 

 chart shows a consumption for the rest of the world of approxi- 

 mately 85,000 tons, while the figures beside the chart are as 

 follows : 



Great Britain 26,760 



France 14,685 



Germany * 3,000 



Italy 8,552 



Total world 52,997 



Note that the chart differs from the figures by 85,000 tons — 

 52,997, or approximately 32,013 tons, which apparently is con- 

 sumption by the rest of the world outside of other countries 

 enumerated, and if this is true, then Mr. Tingley's figures are 

 wrong, as his consumption figures as shown on Table 1, only 

 take the aggregate of the United States, Great Britain, Germany, 

 France and Italy, leaving out the balance of the world, which 

 would be made up of Russia, Japan, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, 

 etc 



