AuGVST 1, 1920.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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DUMPING. 



What exactly is dunipini; " Definitions seem to vary according 

 as to how the imported goods affect the individual pocket. On 

 June 9 in the House of Commons the Under Secretary for the 

 Board of Trade was questioned as to whether the dumping of 

 French and American tires had caused the dismissal of 800 

 workmen at the Wood-Milne works, Leyland, and was further the 

 cause of other manufacturers slowing down their output. A 

 further question was whether the Government's anti-dumping 

 legislation would be quickly introduced. On the latter point the 

 answer was to the effect that no statement was possible at present. 

 With regard to the general question, the Under Secretary said 

 tnat he was not satisfied that the home industry was seriously 

 affected nor had he any evidence that foreign tires were being 

 dumped in this country. Obviously he does not treat the term 

 sold as being synomymous with dumped, as his questioner seemed 

 inclined to do. He also added that the export of rubber tires in 

 the first five months of this year had exceeded the imports by 

 about £600,000, while in 1913 the imports exceeded the exports 

 by about i47O,00O. As the American invasion had not at that 

 time gathered strength the total must have been mainly made up 

 of French, German and Russian tires. 



THE KING'S BIRTHDAY HONORS. 

 Among the recipients are one or two names known in the rub- 

 ber trade. The knighthood bestowed on H. A. Wickham, as 

 father of the rubber planting industry, is an honor which has been 

 generally acclaimed. There is no need here to recapitulate the 

 deeds in the earlier life of the recipient, as they are to be found 

 in the rubber literature. 



Philip S. Stott, who received a baronetcy, is a Lancashire man 

 well known as a cotton mill architect. His connection with the 

 rubber trade is not very close, but as a director of the large 

 Dunlop Cotton Mills he may be said to be in touch with the 

 industry. 



W. H. Veno, who received a knighthood, is in somewhat the 

 same category; although in business he is a manufacturing drug- 

 gist, he has for some time had large financial interests in rubber 

 manufacturing, being at the present time a director of the 

 Monarch Rubber Co., Limited, of Manchester. 



Mention may be made also of John Henderson Stewart, who 

 receives a baronetcy. Although best known in other spheres of 

 industry, he is chairman of the Sorbo Rubber Sponge Products, 

 Limited, of London, a company which is now building a large 

 new works at Woking, Surrey. 



POTTERS ASBESTOS CO., LIMITED. 

 This concern, which has works at Rochdale and the neighboring 

 towns of Littleborough, has been taken over by Bells United 

 Asbestos Co., Limited, and some of the new machinery has been 

 transferred to the works of the latter company at Harefield, 

 Middlesex. The share capital of Potters is £68,600, and the 

 chairman is Frank Turner, who is not now connected with the 

 well-known asbestos concern of that name. The directorate of 

 Bell's United Asbestos Co. is to be increased and Frank Turner 

 will have a seat on the board. The Bell's United Asbestos Co. 

 for last year paid a dividend of IZVs per cent, added to which 

 was a bonus of 5 per cent. 



LOUIS MINTON. 

 The business arrangement which has been in existence for 

 many years between Louis Minton and Messrs. Typke and King, 

 rubber chemical manufacturers, of London, has recently been 

 terminated. Mr. Minton, however, will continue at Trevelyan 

 Buildings, Manchester, to cater for the rubber manufacturers' re- 

 quirements in raw arid reclaimed rubber, pigments, substitutes, 

 accelerators, sulphur and other chemicals. Having been, prior to 

 1898, a rubber manufacturer, he can claim with reason to be in a 

 special way qualified to supply goods suitable for the different 

 branches of the trade. 



ZAMA, LIMITED. 



This company, which carries on a proofing business at Pendle- 

 ton, Manchester, has recently been sold to Thos. Mellor & Sons, 

 of Portland street. Manchester. During the war the spreading 

 machines were fully engaged on special work, but latterly all 

 classes of proofing for the trade have been undertaken. J. E. 

 Baber, who has had considerable experience in the proofing in- 

 dustry, will act as manager under the new regime. 

 CHESS-BRAND, LIMITED. 



This firm has gone into voluntary li(|uidation and the business 

 of rubber sole and heel manufacturers will be continued at the 

 works, which are situated at Middleton, Lancashire, by a new 

 company called Chess & Stead, Limited, with George Metcalfe 

 as managing director. The new company will also operate the 

 Chess-Brand works at Strand, Gloucestershire, these having now 

 passed into their possession with the Middleton works. These 

 latter, it may be recalled, were started by Mr. Roberts when he 

 was head of the Wood-Milne Co., Limited. 

 J. HALSTEAD & CO. 



This firm at Crow Oak Works, Whitefield, Lancashire, is 

 among the more recently started proofing works doing proofing 

 for the trade. G. C. Pratt, who has had many years' experience 

 on the rubber side, is proofing manager. 



NOT DUMPING TIRES ON BRITISH AUTO MARKET. 



According to the American Chamber of Commerce in London, 

 it is understood that large quantities of American and French 

 tires were being dumped on the British markets to the disad- 

 vantage of British manufacturers. Information given by the secre- 

 tary to the Board of Trade, in reply to inquiries made by Mem- 

 bers of Parliament, show that during the first five months of this 

 year the export of tires exceeded in value the imports by over 

 £600,000 sterling, and in the corresponding period of 1914 imports 

 exceeded exports in value by £470,000 sterling. 



The inquiries, says the American chamber, emanated from the 

 report that a well known firm of tire manufacturers found it 

 necessary to dismiss a large number of their workmen, and this 

 was attributed to the dum|iing of foreign tires. 



RUBBER GROWERS ASSIST RUBBER EXHIBITION. 



The Fifth International Exhibition of Rubber, Other Tropical 

 Products and Allied Industries and the International Rubber 

 Congress to be held in connection with it at the Royal .Agri- 

 cultural Hall, London, in June, 1921, will receive the hearty 

 support of the Rubber Growers' Association, as in 1914. Special 

 committees are being appointed to deal with competitions, the 

 plantation rubber section of the international congress and other 

 matters. A rubber tennis court will again be a feature of the 

 associations' exhibits. Sir Ernest Birch, K.C.M.G., is chairman 

 both of the Rubber Growers' Association's special exhibition com- 

 mittee and of the committees for the exhibition organization. 

 The exhibition offices are at 43 Essex street. Strand, London, 

 W. C. 2. 



Brazili.\n shipping f.acii.ities will be improved through 

 the inauguration of monthly services by the Pacific-Argentine- 

 Brazilian Line of San Francisco and the Lloyd Royal Beige 

 Steamship Co. of Belgium. Steamers of the first-named com- 

 pany, after .stopping at west coast ports, will call at those in 

 .\rgentina, Uruguay and Brazil, and return by way of the 

 Panama Canal. Those of the Belgian line will call at Antwerp, 

 Rotterdam, Amsterdam. Hamburg, Brazilian ports, Montevideo, 

 and Buenos Aires. 



The Bureau of Education in the Philippine Islands is 

 planning a course of athletic training that will require every 

 public school to invest in athletic equipment. The increasingly 

 popular games of baseball, indoor baseball, volley ball, soccer, 

 golf, handball, and tennis are to be included. 



