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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December 1, 1911. 



THE T7NITY RUBBER 

 CO.. LTD. 



to have been satisfactorily carried out in London, but the yield 

 of rubber — from the tar which was the basic material — was not 

 up to what had previously been obtained in Paris. 



As efforts to obtain further capital have failed, it was decided 

 to place the syndicate in liquidation, and a motion to that effect 

 was put forward at the extraordinary general meeting, held 

 after the ordinary meeting on October 31, in London. The 

 chief creditor is the secretary for office rent and advances. 

 There are several shareholders who got in at 30s. per share, on 

 faith in the brilliant future predicted, and presumably the shares 

 dealt in were those allotted to the vendors. 



These works, which are adapted for the manufacture of me- 

 chanicals, arc now on offer as a going concern. The company 

 is housed in a mill adjacent to the 

 waterproofing works of J. Mandleberg 

 & Co., Limited, at Pendleton. Man- 

 chester. Formerly (that is, two or three years ago) it was 

 located in the mill of the defunct Hyde Rubber Works. Limited, 

 being a resuscitation of the latter under a new name by Messrs. 

 Mandleberg, who had bought the plant and machinery when the 

 Hyde works were sold by auction. At one time the Hyde 

 works, when they were known as the Hyde Imperial Rubber 

 Company and were owned by Messrs. Cresswell & Cohen, did 

 very well. This was at the commencement of the cycle tire 

 boom. At a later period, however, misfortune overtook the 

 concern, and this misfortune seems to be dogging it yet. Of 

 course, the sale of the Unity Company has nothing wdiatever 

 to do with the business of J. Mandleberg & Co., which shows 

 continued progress year by year. 



This company is now engaged in making considerable exten- 

 sions to its existing premises at Neate street, Camberwell, Lon- 

 don. This has been necessitated not 

 only by a general increase of business, 

 but particularly by the enlarged de- 

 mand for the Dermatine valve fitted with the patent anchor 

 bush. This is largely used for the Edwards and other air- 

 pumps. The company has of late years developed a regular 

 business with gold-mining companies. One article in particular 

 demand is Dermatine belting, 80 yards long and 23 inches wide, 

 for Ingersoll drills, while another is Dermatine hose for com- 

 pressed air drills. Mr. C. R. C. Hart, who has for so many 

 years been connected with the management, was in .August last 

 appointed managing director. 



There is not to be any general strike among rubber workers, 

 such as was referred to in these notes a few months ago at the 

 period of general unrest. There have 

 been some small strikes, concerned with 

 individual works, and no doubt there 

 will be others of similar importance. The workers, however, 

 are not yet in a sufficient state of organization to initiate a 

 general strike with any real hope of success. There is. how- 

 ever, a movement on foot to form a general rubber workers' 

 union, and when this matures we shall see — well, what we 

 shall see. 



Messrs. Dreyfus & Gaisman have started new works called 

 the Hooley Hill Rubber Company at Guide Bridge, near Man- 

 chester. The main branches are rubber 

 KEW WORKS. reclaiming and rubber heel manufac- 



ture. Mr. Dreyfus is a brother of Dr. 

 C. Dreyfus, managing director of the Clayton Aniline Company, 

 Manchester, a concern which has long been engaged in the 

 manufacture of ordinary and special solvent naphtha for the 

 proofing trade. These works, by the way, have recently passed 

 into the hands of Swiss owners, though the present management 

 remains in office and the solvent naphtha business goes on as 

 before. 



A FINE ADVERTISEMENT FOR CLINCHER TIRES. 



The cut shown below of an automobile with a body in the 

 form of a large imitation of a section of a clincher tire is a 



THE DERMATINE 

 COMPANY, LTD. 



THE RUMORED 

 STRIKE. 



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North British Rubber Co. Delivery Van. 



fine advertisement, as it is bound to attract a great deal of at- 

 tention wherever il is seen. It is a creation of the North Brit- 

 ish Rubber Co., Limited, Castle Mills, Edinburgh. Scotland. 



Send for Index (free) to Mr. Pearson's "Crude Rubber and 

 Compounding Ingredients." 



The EniTOR as Seen Abroad. 



Our esteemed contemporary "The India Rubber Journal," of London, 

 lias heard that the editor of The India Rubber World has possessed him- 

 self of a farm. .Acting on that information, it recently produced the above 

 exact and painstaking picture with this caption: "Back to the Land. 

 Mr. H. C. Pearson, Editor of our New York contemporary, has taken up 

 farming." 



