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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[XoVEMBER 1. 1911. 



SHORT 

 MENTION. 



Warwick County Cricket Club, a post he has held I believe for 

 about 25 )'ears. This year he has had the satisfaction of seeing his 

 club win the county championship for the first time. But this, by 

 the way. The reclaiming process used by the Mersey is I under- 

 stand different from that used previously by established and 

 competitive firms. The work's manager is Mr. Gray, who has 

 recently had considerable experience in rubber reclaiming in the 

 United States. Before going to America he occupied positions 

 at the Dunlop Co., Limited, and F. Reddaway & Co., Limited. 

 He is, I may add, a brother of Mr., J,. G. Gray, the present 

 works manager of the Gorton Rubber Co., Limited. 



At eleven o'clock on Saturday night, September 16, some 

 naphtha drums which had been stored near the base of one of 

 the large chimneys at the works of 

 Chas. Macintosh & Co., Manchester, ex- 

 ploded, giving rise to a fire which caused 

 the town fire brigade some trouble to subdue, owing to the ex- 

 treme inflammability of the material which fed the flames. The 

 works were never in danger, the main risk being limited to the 

 chimney, and this was fortunately saved from disaster by the 

 liremen's efforts. What caused the drums to explode remains 

 much of a mystery, but the extremely hot weather which has 

 been responsible for so many fires of one sort or another this 

 year may have had something to do with it. 



A serious motor car accident occurred near Hawarden, North 

 Wales, on October 1, when a car, containing H. L. Rothband 

 and members of his family, collided with another containing 

 two gentlemen, one of whom was killed outright and the other 

 very seriously injured. The Rothband family, though bruised 

 and shaken escaped serious injury. Mr. Rothband is well known 

 in the rubber trade as partner in the proofing works of J. Man- 

 dleberg & Co., Limited, of Pendleton, Manchester. 



The Manchester proofing trade has recently lost a well-known 

 figure in Lazarus Mistooski. For about forty years he had been 

 connected with the trade, and about twenty years back had a 

 proofing works at Heywood, a town in the Manchester district. 

 This was subsequently given up and a few years afterwards he 

 started the firm of L. Mistooski & Co., Limited, at Manchester. 



"A PALE, STICKY LUMP OF HORROR." 



A reporter on the London Financier, who evidently has a 

 very susceptible sense of smell, contributes the following para- 

 graph to his paper in reference to an artificial rubber made largely 

 of coal tar, and further referring to a lump of synthetic rubber 

 that he saw, or more properly smelt, when attending the rubber 

 exposition last summer ; 



"In the latest project for making artificial rubber coal tar is 

 said to be the chief constituent, and the process is described as not 

 only successful, but cheap. I don't mind what these gallant in- 

 ventors use to produce so-called rubber, provided it is something 

 different from the stuff composing the 'synthetic' rubber made at 

 the late exhibition. Whenever I think of that pale, sticky lump 

 of horror which I was prevailed upon to smell shortly after its 

 emergence from the mysterious 'autoclave' I — well, feel I shall 

 never want a dinner again ! Limburger — ofttimes cited as pos- 

 sessing the limit of power on the olfactory nerves — is compara- 

 tively innocuous, so I am sure coal tar — hot or cold — would prove 

 a veritable attar of roses. Good luck, then, to the lumianitarian 

 inventor!" 



MALLETS or RUBBER, 



The doctors are now using rubber mallets for certain pur- 

 poses. The matron in the Bayonne police headquarters suffered 

 severely from rheumatism, and recently underwent a peculiar 

 operation performed by several local surgeons. The flesh and 

 bones about her knees had grown together.. The doctors broke 

 her knee caps, using for this purpose a small rubber mallet. 

 Her bones were then re-set in their proper position. 



THE EXHIBITION TROPHY AWARDS. 



AV/ITII reference to the award of both the "India Rubber 

 '"^ Journal" shield and the "Grenier's Rubber Xews" silver 

 trophy to the Sungei Kapar Rubber Company, Limited, Selangor, 

 Federated Malay States, it is of interest to note that this com- 

 pany was registered in July, 1906, and has a paid-up capital 

 equaling $500,000, the British offices being at Edinburgh. It has 

 2,031 acres under cultivation, planted pt various dates from 1902 

 to 1908, and had in 1910 an output of 225,400 lbs. dry rubber, its 

 crop for 1911 being estimated at 300,000 lbs. 



In connection with the details quoted by the IxDi.\ Rubber 

 World in its October, 1911, issue (p. 11), the detailed results 

 of the two awards indicate the high character of the company's 

 product. 



"iNDI.V RUBBER JOURN.\l" COMPETITION'. 



Maximum possible. PoiiUs awarded. 



Color test 10 10 



Chemical test 20 16.5 



Vulcanizing test 70 70 



Total 100 96.5 



"grenier's rubber news" COMPETITION. 



Maximum possible. Points awarded. 



Color test 10 10 



Chemical test 20 18.5 



Vulcanizing test 70 70 



Total 100 98.5 



By analyzing the detailed returns of the 66 awards in the "India 

 Rubber Journal" competition, the importance of the vulcanizing 

 test as an element of comparison is clearly shown, 70 points 

 out of a possible hundred having been allotted to that test. The 

 average award for the 66 items was about 57 points, or approxi- 

 mately 20 per cent, under the maximum, there being 33 awards 

 of between 60 and 65 points. 



In the color test the average award was only about 5 points 

 out of a possible 10, it being thus indicated that relative inferiority 

 of color is compatible with a comparatively high grade of vul- 

 canizing property. Thus in one case an award for color of 1 

 point out of 10 was accompanied by one of 65 out of 70 for 

 vulcanization. The awards for color raijge through the whole 

 gamut from to 10, while the chemical test is not only move 

 uniform but averages about 18 out of a possible 20. 



The general average result is shown as follows for the 6') 

 awards in the "India Rubber Journal's" competition. 



Average points of 

 Maximum possible. 66 entries. 



Color test , 10 5 



Chemical test 20 18 



Vulcanizing test 70 -57 



Total points 100 80 



Broadly speaking, almost the same result is shown by the 

 returns of the 45 awards in the competition of "Grenier's Rubber 

 News", : 



Average points <if 

 Maximum possible. 45 entries. 



Color test 10 6 



Chemical test 20 18 



Vulcanizing test 70 50 



Total points 100 74 



The total number of items in the two competitions was 111. 

 contributed by 40 separate competitors, of whom 23 were in bolli 

 contests. 



