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THE INDIA R'J^.BER WORLD 



[Septemrer I, igoS. 



filled by the late Oscar Witt, a director of the Miiuden-Hildes- 

 heimer Gummiwaren-Fa'briken Gebr. Wetzel, A.-G., at Hildes- 

 heim, Germany. The Prague factory was founded in 1897 as an 

 independent concern, and on going into liquidation passed under 

 the control of Oesterreichisch-Amerikanische Gummifabrik, A-G., 

 of Vienna, by whom it has since been operated. Mr. Henkel is 

 succeeded at Vysocan by Bohumil !Moravec and Richard Hahn. 



BRITISH COMPANY NOTES. 



The directors of George M. Callender & Co., Limited, have 

 issued a report to the shareholders, giving a version of the retire- 

 ment from the chairmanship of George M. Callender, the accu- 

 racy of which is strongly disputed by Mr. Callender, who has prom- 

 ised to publish a reply. At a special meeting of shareholders 

 (London, July i), it was resolved to continue for six months 

 under a new manager, after which another meeting will be 

 called. The company is capitalized at iioo,ooo and manufacture 

 bitumen specialties. 



The profits of the General Electric Co., Limited, for the last 

 fiscal year showed a decline of about £9,000, due to the writing 

 down of values on raw materials in hand. The stock carried 

 amounted usually to £300,000, composed of india-rubber, copper, 

 and so on. The chairman expressed the opinion that no per- 

 manent improvement in the position of the British electrical in- 

 dustry was likely to occur while the country maintained its 

 free trade policy. The usual yearly dividend of 5 per cent, 

 was declared. 



R. Crummack & Co., Limited, registered in London, July 15, 

 1908, with £5,000 capital ; to acquire the business carried on by 

 R. Crummack & Co., 3, Marsden street, Manchester, manufactur- 

 ers of cloth for the india-rubber trade. 



Neptune Rubber Co., Limited, registered in London, July 15, 

 1908, with £4,000 capital; to carry on the business of rubber mer- 

 chants and to manufacture and deal in heels and other rubber 

 goods. J. W. Battcy. rubber manufacturer, Levenshulme, is man- 

 aging director, and the offices are at Temple place, Temple street. 

 Manchester. 



Resilient Tyres, Limited, registered in London, April 9, 1908; 

 capital, £60,000. Registered offices: 11, Ironmonger lane, E. C, 

 London. 



The business of P. Frankenstein & Sons, Limited, india-rubber 

 and waterproof garment manufacturers at Manchester, is being 

 continued by the brothers Simon, Louis, and Harry Frankenstein, 

 whose father, the founder of the busmess, died recently in his 

 seventy-fifth year. 



The Rubber Heel ^lanufacturing Co., of Clayton, Manchester, 

 whose premises were badly damaged by fire in May last, have 

 resumed work on a good scale, manufacturing rubber heels and 

 soles for the trade. 



Mr. E. M. H. Shelley has been appointed a managing director, 

 and Messrs. Charles Bulkeley Cutton and Spencer Brett, direct- 

 ors, of Go^v, Wilson & Stanton, Limited, rubber and tea brokers, 

 of 13, Rood Lane, E. C. 



FRANCE. 

 Edou.xrd Michelix, of Michelin et Cie., the French rubber tire 

 manufacturers, has resigned the presidency of the Automobile 

 Club d'Auvergne, as a protest against that club's alliance with 

 I'.^ssociation Generale Automobile of France, one of the objects 

 of which is the securing of automobile accessories for its mem- 

 bers at reduced prices. The scale of discounts on pneumatic 

 tires for Association members appeared in The India Rubber 

 World, August i, 1907 (page 349). 



SWEDEN. 



The establishment is reported of a firm at Stockholm, under 

 the style Aktiebolaget Zakin, to manufacture an artificial rubber 

 under the name "Zakin" patented in several countries by Zach- 

 arias Olson [see The Indi.\ Rubber World, June i, 1907 — 

 page 268]. The capital mentioned is 420,000 kroner [=$112,560]. 



THE LARGEST SOLUTION PLANT. 



T T is probable that no other business in the world affords so 

 *■ many opportunities for the reward of individual genius as 

 does the rubber industry. Take, for example, the rise of the 

 Faultless Rubber Co. It was. as the whole trade knows, the 

 creation of its president, Mr. Thomas W. Miller, and was builded 



on lines that the best 

 equipped rubber men 

 were a unit in con- 

 demning, as being 

 neither sound nor 

 profitable. T o-d a y, 

 with the biggest solu- 

 tion plant in the 

 world, and with cus- 

 tomers wherever rub- 

 ber goods are used, 

 it epitomizes oppor- 

 tunity in the rubber 

 manufacture. 



The plant at Ash- 

 land, Ohio, is ideally 

 situated; it is close 

 to the railroad, in a 

 hrifty city of 5,000, 

 '.ith good water, 

 good help, and a 

 progressive and pa- 

 triotic city govern- 

 ment. The factory 

 Thom.«lS W. Miller. buildings are of brick 



and tile construction, 

 and have about ico,- 

 coo square feet of floor space, in the aggregate. 



The power plant consists of 600 h.p. in boilers and 400 H.p. 

 in engines. There is also the usual equipment of washers, mix- 

 ers, calenders, and vulcanizers, with one battery of 14 hydraulic 

 presses, and another of 10 soon to be installed. 



It is in the solution room, where there are scores of automatic 

 dipping machines, and in the acid curing building, that the real 

 individuality and originality of the business is shown. There 

 are machines and devices, with special arrangement for ventila- 

 tion and handling not shown to the world at large, as they 

 were designed to fit the special lines that they so successfully 

 produce. The company, with its $300,000 capital, and a goodly 

 surplus, does not aim to grow larger. It rather plans to create 

 new and original specialties, and cut off lines that are staple 

 and in which competition is fierce. Back of this policy, quiet, 

 capable, inventive, an unusually shrewd judge of men and mar- 

 kets, stands "Tom" ^liller, creator of the business. 



[President of the Faultless Rubber Co 

 Ashland, Ohio.] 



"RUBBER HEELS AND EZLIGION.' 



A N Irish newspaper contains a letter from a leading firm 

 ^» in reference to a widely published report [see The India 

 Rubber World, May i, 1908 — page 259] to the effect that rubber 

 heels having a metal plate of the shape of a cross are unsale- 

 able in parts of Ireland, as being calculated to offend religious 

 susceptibilities. The writer of the letter considers their firm 

 as being particularly referred to as the company obliged to 

 withdraw from trade the heels having the objectionable cruci- 

 form design, and they add : "So far from there being any diffi- 

 culty in selling rubber heels of this particular pattern in Ire- 

 land, we sell more in that pattern there than any other; in fact, 

 they have a very large sale throughout Ireland, and are cxtens- 

 ivly worn in convents and also by the priesthood." 



