THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1916. 



The Editor's Book Table. 



;l ISBEU PRODUCINU COMPANIES— 1916. COMriLEll BY THK 

 Mincing lane Tea ami Rubber Share Brokers' Association, Limited, 

 .md published by "The Financial Times," London, England. [Board 

 covers. 8vo. 551 pages. Price 3i.) 



TrfIS \oIutnc is a compendium of information regarding the 

 532 rublier-producing companies in tlie Middle and Near 

 Kast giving, as it does, the capital authorized, the capital is- 

 sued, acreage, production, dividends, profits, the secretaries, boards 

 of directors and much miscellaneous information of interest to 

 investors or planters. Besides these, there is a supi)lementary 

 .section covering companies in the Far East. There are also esti- 

 mates for the current year and outputs to the beginning of May ; 

 details of new land to be opened up, the highest and lowest prices 

 of shares for several years, a complete list of directors and sec- 

 retaries of rubber companies. These facts and figures are in 

 most cases official. The work is well printed and adniiralily ar- 

 ranged for quick reference. 



IU-\('TIVK RKSI.-^T.\.\CK TO A MOTOR DELINIiRV WAGON ON 

 Different Roa.i< an! at Different Speeds. By A. E. Kennelly and 

 (1. R. SchweiR. rresci.ted at the Annual Convention of the American 

 Institute of Electrical Engineers, Cleveland, Ohio. June .'7-30, 1916. 

 In this paper is given a complete report on an investigation 

 of tractive resistances of urban roads to a motor delivery 

 wagon equipped with solid rubber tires. Tiie "tractive resist- 

 ance" as used in this paper, includes still-air resistance, but 

 (Iocs not include wind resistance and the resistances internal to 

 tlie truck. The test truck is fully described, with its driving 

 mechanism and the storage battery which supplied the motive 

 jiower. The investigation involved test runs over definite 

 lengths of road, at measured truck speeds, to deteririine the 

 gross battery output during these runs ; and laboratory tests 

 111 determine tiic overall efficiency of the truck lietween lattery 

 terminals and rear-wheel treads at speeds and loads corre- 

 s|ionding to the road tests. The results included in the paper 

 are (1) overall efficiency of truck mechanism and (2) tractive 

 resistances of a numljer of typical urban roads. The compo- 

 nents of tractive resistance for a typical road are also given. 



ULWAY EXP.\X- 

 Halsey. Tlie M 

 Yorlc. iCIr.tl'. - 



\riN AMERKA. I'.V I'-REDERIC M. 

 . \ Boole Co., ,i5 Nassau street. New 

 illustrated. Price $1.50. 1 

 While this bo. k i~ ,r ,o\i.ll> written to interest capital in a 

 line of investments which is unfamiliar, to most Americans, it 

 is far from being a book of dry facts and statistics. Rather, it is 

 an entertaining account of the origin and development of the 

 principal railway systems in Central and South America, giving 

 many facts of the mechanical and engineering difficulties as well 

 as the climatic conditions which were overcome, and ])riefly out- 

 lining the history of each of these enterprises. The story of the 

 Madeira-Mamorc Railway is given in detail, though no facts 

 are presented which have not been covered by The Indi.\ Rub- 

 KKR World. Mr. Halsey suggests that a number of the larger 

 South .American railway enterprises, controlled abroad, be in- 

 vited to make formal application to list their securities on the 

 Xew York Stock E.xchange, believing that when American capi- 

 talists become acquainted with the Latin-American investment 

 lield, they will doubtless be able to finance various new projects 

 in those countries, where hitherto European capital has predomi- 

 nated. The book is neatly bound, has 40 half-tone engravings and 

 four maps, showing the extent and location of the South Ameri- 

 can railway? 



PUBLISHED BY THE 



Iield in San I raiicisco last year. The sentiments are many and 

 \aried; tlu-y ccmc Iruin commanding figures in politics, science, 

 art, transpnrtatiuii, business and literature, and also include 

 many from prominent American women, the whole forming a 

 permanent record of the comments of leading minds as re- 

 gards the exposition, in its various phases. It is a beautiful 

 book, which will delight bibliophiles, it being very novel in its 

 manufacture. It is printed on toned antique paper, sewed on 

 tapes after the l)ook-making art of four centuries ago. A 

 ruled scheme gives separate panels for the body text, the run- 

 ning heads and the side heads, the type matter being black and 

 tlie rules red, to match the hand-made paper of the covers, while 

 the backbone is of unbleached linen with a Japanese vellum 

 title. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



THE 1'.. 1'. (iiKKlrich to.. Akron. Ohio, is publishing a .series 

 of route bcioks for the use of automobilists and we have just 

 recei\ed copies of those for New York and New Jersey, as well 

 as one entitled "Electric Car Tours in New England." These 

 books are carefully compiled and give a great amount of exact 

 information valuable to anyone touring the sections covered. 

 ICaeh book contains a map of the territory, and this is followed by 

 instructions regarding the routes from one point to another. The 

 large cities are also mapped to show the ways of approach and 

 exit, while each tour is also shown in the same way. The routes 

 are given concisely and clearly, showing the direction and the 

 number of miles between every two points on the route. Where 

 the Goodrich company has erected road marker guide posts at 

 the corners, these are indicated by a character showing the way 

 ■to turn : this, of course, being in addition to the verbal directions. 

 The New York route in the New York book has in its central 

 pages an outline map of the .state, showing the number of miles 

 between each important point. It is a book of 160 pages, of 

 convenient size to carry in the pocket, as are the others men- 

 tioned. Undoubtedly, these books, which arc oflfered free to 

 motorists, will have a large circulation. 



The Goodricli Company is sending out to the shoe trade a 

 linely printed pamphlet exploiting the new "Textan" soles and 

 (Goodrich heels for the shoe manufacturing trade. The illus- 

 trations are printed in natural colors, and folded within is a 

 chart showing the shapes, sizes and thicknesses of the soles and 

 heels described in the bodv of the work. 



The (ioodsear Tire & Rubber Co.. Akron. Ohio, publishes a 

 general catalog for dealers which gives a large amount of 

 information regarding such goods as are usually carried by au- 

 tomoljile accessory dealers and repairers. Many of the arti- 

 cles listed are illustrated by clean, clear half-tones, and a con- 

 siderable amount of information regarding the goods and their 

 methods of use, guarantees, etc., is added. 



The Racine Rubber Co., Racine, Wisconsin, sends out a 

 brilliantly colored folder advertising its tires, a portion of the 

 circular showing a bird's-eye view of the plant, while a map 

 of the United States has 37 cities indicated, at each of which 

 there is a distributor of the Racine company's tires, the names 

 of these distributors being given in tabular form below. 



This book is a compilation of the opinions of over 700 well- 

 known Americans regarding the great exposition which w^as 



"Shoveling Coal by Machinery" is a 16-page pamphlet 

 crowded full of information regarding the various methods 



