January 1, 1912.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



177 



EUROPE AND THE AMERICAN RUBBER EXPOSITION 



THE COMING MOTOR CAR SHOWS. 



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■"HE rubber centers of Europe are taking a very lively in- 

 terest in the Third International Rubber Exposition, which 

 is to be held in New York next September, as is shown by 

 the large number of men, prominent in the various phases of 

 the rubber industry, who have signified their willingness to 

 serve on the European Honorary Advisory Committee. 



The president of the committee will be Sir Henry A. Blake, 

 G. C. M. G., and the vice-president, the Right Hon Lord Elphin- 

 stone. Tlie membership of the committee includes the following: 



Association des Planteurs de Caoutchouc, Belgium. 



John L. Bains, Ceylon. 



Dr. A. li. Berkhout, General Secretary, International Rubber Testing 



Committee. 

 A. Bethune, J. P., ex-Chairman, Rubber Growers' Association, London. 

 W. D. Bosanquet, Director, Golconda Malay Rubber Co., Limited. 



E. E. Buckleton, Managing Director, Northwestern Rubber Co., Limited, 



of U. S. A., Liverpool. 

 Ed. Bunge, President de L' Association des Planteurs de Caoutchouc 



Anvers. 

 Mario Calvino, Doctor en Ciencias Agricolas, Editor and Secretary of 



"Sociedad Agricola Mexicana of Me.xico, 4a De tacuba, 34, Mexico, 



D. F. 

 The Ceylon Association in London. 



F. Copeman, Director, The Rubber Estate Agency, Limited, London. 

 George Corderoy, Managing Director, The Malaysia Rubber Co., Limited. 

 Andre Cremazy, President, de la Chambre d' Agriculture de Cochin- 

 Chine. 



F. Crosbie-Roles, Editor "Times of Ceylon," Ceylon. 



Octave Depuy, Vice-President, de I'Association des Planteurs de Caout- 

 chouc de rindo-Chine. 



H. de Vasconcellos, Consul for Brazil, Southampton. 



Oliphant Devitt, Mincing Lane, London. 



A. Gordon Dickson, Director, Caledonian Rubber Estates of Malaya, 

 Limited. 



Professor Wyndham Dunstan, M. A., LL. D., F. R. S., Imperial Institute, 

 London. 



R. Ehrhardt, Secretary, Association des Planteurs de Caoutchouc, Ant- 

 werp. 



Ronald H. Ferguson, Editor *'Ceylon Observer," Colombo. 



The Honorable Everhard Fielding, Director, Kuala Lumpur Rubber Co., 

 Limited. 



William Forsythe, ex-Chairman, Planters' Association of Ceylon. 



Walter Fox, late Superintendent Botanical Department, Straits Settle- 

 ments. 



Dr. Fritz Frank, Scientific Chemist, Berlin. 



G. H. Golledge, "Gikiyanskande Estate," Ceylon. 



Norman W. Grieve, E.x-President. Ceylon Association. London. 



R. N. Harrison, ex-Chairman, Malay Rubber Planters' Association. 



T. G. Haves, Director. Cevlon Proprietary Tea Estates Co., Limited. 



William H. Hildreth, Director, A. H. .-\lden & Co.. London. 



Professor Dr. F, Willy Hinrichsen, Berlin-Zelilendorf. 



Louis Hoff. Vereinietc-Gummi-waren-Fabriken. Harburg-Wien. President, 



Centrakverein Deutscher Kautschuk-waren-Fabriken, Berlin. 

 Dr. Jacques Huber, Director, Museu Goeldi, Para, Brazil. 

 A. L. Hutchinson. Mincing Lane, London. 



Arthur Lampur, Director, Anglo-Malay Rubber Co., Limited. 

 J. E. A. Dicklauder. 



George B. Leechman, Leechman & Co., Ceylon. 

 Lewis & Peat, Mincing Lane, London. 



L. L. Loudoun-Shand, Director Hevea Rubber Trust, Limited. 

 J. McEwan, Chairman, Batu Caves Rubber Co. 

 C. C. McLeod, Director, Kasintoe Rubber Estates, Limited. 

 Dr. Eduard Marckwald. Scientific Chemist, Berlin. 

 Ch. Moens, London & Rotterdam. 



Sir Daniel Morris, K. C. M. G., D. C. L., D. So., Colonial Office. 

 Jac. Musly, Messrs. Weise & Co., Rotterdam. 

 T. C. Owen. Director, .Associated Tea Estates of Ceylon. 

 E. Pollet, Consul General for Belgium. London. 

 J. Pompe, Director of Amsterdam Rubber Factory. 

 Lieutenant-Colonel D. Prain, M. A., M. B., F. R. S., Director, Royal 



Gardens, Kew. 

 Leslie Radclyffe, A. M. E. C. E. 

 A. Slinpervoet Ramondt, Amsterdam. 

 J. A. Richardson, Southern India. 

 T. Ritchie, T. P., Director. Bukit Mertajam Rubber Co., Limited, and 



many other rubber companies. 

 Honorable E. Rosling, Chairman, Planters' Association of Ceylon. 

 The Rubber Growers' Association, London. 

 H. Kerr Rutherford, Director, Anglo-Ceylon & General Estates Co., 



Limited, etc., etc. 



E. G. Salmon, Editor "Rubber World." 



Colonel Pedro Saurez, Consul General for Bolivia. 



H. Hamel Smith, Editor "Tropical Life." 



Emil Spannagel, Vereinigte Berlin-Frankfurter Gummiwaren-Fabriken. 



George Springer, Editor "Gummi-Zeitung." Berlin. 



A. G. N. Swart, LL. D., Director of Rubber Planting Companies, The 



Hague. 

 Tos. Torrey, M. A.. Ph. D. 



Sir William Treacher, K. C. M. G., ex-Governor BritishNorth Borneo. 

 Noel Trotter, Director. Highlands and Lowlands Para Rubber Co., 



Limited. 

 K. H. H. van Bennekom, Hon. Consul for Belgium. Tlie Hague. 

 G. van den Kerckhove. Caoutchouc Expert, Brussels. 

 S. P. Van Eegen, President. Chamber of Commerce, Amsterdam. 

 Professor P. Van Romburgh, Holland. 



F. Alves Vieira, Consul General for Brazil, London. 



T. G. Von Hemert, President of the Association of Surinam. Amsterdam. 

 Edmund Walker, Director, The Klanang Produce Co., Limited. 

 Professor Robert Wallace. F. R. S. E.. F. L. S., Professor of Agriculture, 



University of Edinburgh. 

 Leonard Wray, I. S. C, late Director of Museums, Federated Malay 



States. 

 Herbert Wright, A. R. C. S., L L. S., Editor "India Rubber Journal," 



London. 



GREAT preparations have been made in Madison Square Gar- 

 den, New York, for the motor car exhibitions that are to be 

 held there during the present month. The first exhibition, which 

 will be confined to passenger cars, will be held from January 6 to 

 13. The second exhibition, which will be composed of commercial 

 vehicles, will follow immediately and continue from January 15 

 to 20. Over 200 artists have been at work for many days pre- 

 paring a proper setting for these two exhibitions. The general 

 color scheme of the interior of the great building will be crim- 

 son and gold, and will be exceedingly rich. The management has 

 planned to make these shows, which will be not only the last 

 automobile shows, but the last exhibitions of any sort to be held 

 in the famous old Garden, memorable from every standpoint. 



During the first week there will be sixty exhibitors of com- 

 plete pleasure vehicles, both gasolene and electric types. In ad- 

 dition to these there will be 311 accessory manufacturers and 

 dealers exhibiting and nineteen motorcycle concerns. During 

 the second week, when commercial vehicles only will be displayed, 

 thirty-one companies will show complete motor trucks and busi- 

 ness wagons of all sorts and sizes, while practically the same 

 number of accessory makers will be represented as at the pre- 

 vious week. 



There will be a great many novelties exhibited in cars this 

 year in the way of additional comfort for the passenger, like 

 various heating apparatus, and one exhibitor will show an ice 

 water tank made to be fitted just back of the front seat. 



There will be a second exhibition of combined passenger and 

 commercial cars at Grand Central Palace, New York's handsome 

 exposition building, running from January 10 to 17. 



The Garden show is restricted to members of the old Associa- 

 tion of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers and makers of elec- 

 tric vehicles who have been exhibitors at Madison Square Gar- 

 den for the last five years or more. The Grand Central Palace 

 show is "open" to all manufacturers, but will not include dis- 

 plays by makers who have exhibits in the Garden. 



From January 27 to February 3 there will be a passenger car 

 exhibition, and from February 5 to 10 a commercial vehicle ex- 

 position in the Coliseum and First Regiment Armory, Chicago. 

 All manufacturers are eligible for the Chicago show, which is 

 the only one that will be held in that city, and it will include ex- 

 hibits by most of the makers who display at the New York shows. 



During the two weeks' show period in New York more than 

 100 different makes of passenger cars and 70 makes of work 

 vehicles will be on exhibition simultaneously. In Chicago more 

 than 90 makes of pleasure cars will be shown during the week 

 of January 27 to February 3, and the following week more than 

 60 different makes of business machines will be exhibited. 



The educational advantages of these big shows are very ob- 

 vious, as all the principal makes of trucks and delivery wagons 

 can be examined and compared as to design, workmanship and 

 price. There the experts of a dozen or more companies may be 

 consulted without incurring any obligation to buy from any com- 

 pany that confers the favor of such advice. It will be possible 

 in one or two days' time to gather information at the shows that 

 would require months of effort to acquire in any other way. 

 In all, fully ninety different companies will display their newest 

 models this winter, among which will be many never before in 

 the market. 



The Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, is very well 

 pleased, and with cause, at the record made by "Jack" Handley, 

 of New York, who recently took a twenty-five day run from that 

 city to San Francisco, going through the Royal Gorge, Rattoon 

 Pass, and over the Glorietta Mountains, where the roads are not 

 particularly smooth and even, and arrived at the end of his trip 

 without a puncture or a blow-out. 



