October i, 1907. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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RUBBER INTERESTS IN EUROPE. 



TRANSFER OF AN OLD ENGLISH FACTORY. 



A NEW company under the style Broadhurst & Co., Limited, 

 ^*- was registered August 6 to acquire the business carried 

 on hitherto by a company of the same name, now in liquidation. 

 The business was founded originally about 1870, and consisted in 

 the manufacture of mechanical rubber goods, at Bradford, Man- 

 chester. In 1901 it was converted into a public company; later, 

 on becoming embarrassed, the business passed into the control 

 of the company's creditors, and was continued by them. The 

 capital of the new company is i40,cx)0. The first directors are 

 F. H. Smith and P. A. Birley, the latter of Charles Macintosh & 

 Co., Limited, of Manchester. The impression e.xists that the 

 Messrs. Macintosh own the works. 



MTTRAC AGAIN. 



To THE Editor of The Inuia Ri'miEK World: In printing 

 in your August edition (page 349) our letter of June 

 15, we note that you have in error used the word "books" 

 instead of "works," as written by us. We are always willing 

 to allow any india-rubber manufacturer to inspect our Murac 

 works, but we do not undertake to disclose our books. 



The error, tliough seemingly small, may be understood and 

 possibly lead to some confusion, as w'c have a large number of 

 shareholders. 



THE BRITISH MUR.\C SYNDICATE, LIMITED, 



MoKL.\ND M. Dess.m'. Manaper. 

 Londcn, .\ngust 20, 1907. 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



At a meeting of the Single Tube Tires, Limited (London), 

 it was decided to go into liquidatiotL Early in 1898 tlie B. F. 

 Goodrich Co. and two other .American rubber firms formed a 

 company for tlie joint exploitation of single tube bicycle tires in 

 Europe, under tlie style, The Single Tube Tire Co. The other 

 companies in time retired from the field. The B. F. Goodrich 

 began doing business under their own name, and the tire exploit- 

 ing company, in new hands, became The Single Tube Tires, 

 Limited — the company now giving up its existence. 



The de Nevcrs Rubber Tyre Co., whose works at Earlsfield, 

 near London, were visited by a serious fire on May 9, are about 

 getting in good running order again. 



The directors of W. T. Henley's Telegraph Works Co., Lim- 

 ited (London), declared an interim dividend for the first half 

 of the business year, payable September 2. at the rate of 4^/2 

 per cent, on the preference and 10 per cent, on the ordinary 

 shares — the same rate as last year. 



FRANCE. 



The capital of the Societe anonyme des anciens Etablisse- 

 ments J. B. Torrilhon has been increased from 4,000,000 francs to 

 6,000,000 francs [$1,158,000], by the issue of 20,000 shares of 100 

 francs [=$19.30] each. Their factories, devoted largely to pro- 

 ducing tires, are at Chamalieres, near Clermont-Ferrand. 



The profits of the Etablissements Hutchinson for the 

 last business year reached 1,413,075 francs [^$273,723.48], an in- 

 crease over the preceding year of 416,637 francs. The amount 

 set apart for share dividends was 804,090 francs [^$155,189.37]. 

 The share capital is being increased from 5,000,000 to 6,000.000 



francs [=:$!, 158,000], by the issue of new 300 franc shares. 



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GERMANY. 



A NEW company, Deutsche Kautsclnik-Werke G. m. b. H., has 

 been formed with 400,000 marks [^$94,200] capital, at Wilster, 

 in Schleswig-Holstein. The director is Georg Ferdinand Bogel, 

 with a counsel of associates. The company have acquired and 

 will exploit the patent of Dr. Foelsing and Herr Bogel for ex- 

 tracting rubber by mechanical and chemical means from various 

 plants and plant products. Of the capital, 70,400 marks is sub- 

 scribed by Weber & Schaer, crude rubber merchants at Ham- 

 burg; 70,300 marks by the Kautschuk-Pflanzung "jMeanja" A.-G., 

 of Berlin ; and 10,000 marks each by Messrs. Foelsing and Bogel. 



New York-Hamburger Gummiwaren-Compagnie, A.-G., have 

 increased their capital by 201,000 marks, making the total now 

 2,001,000 marks [=$476,238]. 



The capital stock of the Radium-Rubber-Compagnie m. b. H., 

 at Dellbriick near Cologne, has been increased from 90,033 to 

 171,000 marks [=$40,698]. 



Herr Emil Spannagel, director of Vereinigte Berlin-Frank- 

 forter Gummiwaren-Fabriken (Berlin), spent his summer vacation 

 at Interlaken, Switzerland, whence he sent The Ixdi.\ Rubber 

 World a picture of the peak gummihorn, or "India-rubber horn," 

 which overlooks the lakes there. 



BELGIUM. 



La Societe Beige pour la Fabrication des Cables et Fils Elec- 

 triques— offices 37, rue St. Lazare, Brussels, and works at Buy- 

 iinghen— have been increasing their capital to 50,000 francs 

 [=$96,500]. 



SWEDEN. 



Three hundred employees of the Aktiebolaget Svensk-Engelska 

 Gummifabriken, at Malmo, were reported on strike lately, most 

 of them being women employed in making galoshes. It was ex- 

 pected that the company would be able soon to resume work. 



Aktiebolaget Limau Manis's Kautschukplantage has been or- 

 ganized at Malmo, to acquire the plantation of Oscar Richter on 

 the east coast of Sumatra and extend the planting of rubber. 

 The capital is 265,000 kronen [=$71,020], with authority to in- 

 crease to 600,000 kronen. 



MILKING MACHINES IN ENGLAND. 



A T the last Royal Agricultural Show in London several! 

 ^~*- makes of milking machines were shown, and it was evident 

 from the attention given to them that the interest in this new- 

 form of labor saving device for the dairy, referred to in The 

 India Rubber World for September i (page 383), is becoming 

 considerable in Great Britain. King Edward is referred to as 

 having watched the working of the "Hartnett" patent milker, in- 

 vented in Australia, where several hundred are reported to be 

 in use. In this machine the pulsator is fixed overhead, instead 

 of to the milking cans, where it would be liable to be kicked 

 over by restive cows. 



The "Wallace'' milker, made in Scotland, had already won a. 

 silver medal awarded by the Royal Agricultural Society of Engr 

 land. The different machines shown each possessed some dis- 

 tinguishing feature, though all work so nearly on similar lines- 

 that detailed illustrations would be necessary to make the differ- 

 ences clear to the reader. The subject is mentioned here because 

 the development of cow milkers seems to have reached a prac- 

 tical stage, and one that will call for a considerable amount of 

 high grade rubber tubing and carefully made fittings of rubber. 



Mr. Herbert Wright has been awarded a silver medal by the 

 London Society of Arts for his recent lecture on "Rubber Culti- 

 vation in the British Empire," reviewed in The Indi.\ Rubber 

 World, July i, 1907 (page 307). 



Miller's Tire Tread Roller. 



[For rolling down unvulcanized rubber, when making section repairs or 

 re-covering. Operates more rapidly than the ordinary hand roller, besides, 

 rolling the rubber and cloth more tightly together. Charles E. Miller,. 

 Anderson, Indiana.] 



