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The premises are fully equipped to do all classes of proofing 

 for waterproof garments, motor hoods, cart sheets, bench sheet- 

 ing, hospital sheets, etc., and also telegraph tapes. A large 

 output is already maintained and the company has worked 

 overtime continually since its formation two years ago. The 

 writer understands that a good deal of work has been done 

 for the War Office, but at the present time the whole of the 

 machinery is engaged on civilian work. Arrangements are 

 now completed, it is reported, for removing the business to 

 , more commodious premises which will enable the output to 

 be trebled. 



CAMPBELL ACHNACH CO., LIMITED. 

 Another proofing development is the decision of this old 

 established Glasgow firm to make extensive additions to its 

 Thistle rubber mills at Commerce street. This fact, coupled 

 with one or two other similar developments in the country, 

 certainly indicates that the prevalent feeling of three or four 

 months ago that the proofing capacity of the country has been 

 largely overdone as a result of war demands, has been suc- 

 ceeded by more optimistic views of the immediate future. 

 CABLE MATTERS. 



The Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Co., Limited, of 

 London, has paid its customary dividend of 20 per cent for 

 1918, the year's results being somewhat above the average of 

 the past few years. It is proposed to double the capital by the 

 issue of bonus shares, making it up to £896,400. 



The Cable Makers' Association has brought out a new C M A 

 label design. This distinctive label on cables and flexible cords 

 is a guaranty to buyers that they are getting the standard 

 first-quality article. 



In the great snowstorm in the north of England last January 

 a very large number of overhead wires were brought down 

 and there was a shortage of labor to make repairs. In some 

 cases the temporary expedient was adopted of using stranded 

 insulated cables suspended from the poles and these are still 

 in use after three months. 



The new Transport Bill, to give it its short title, which is 

 now before the House of Commons, will have special interest 

 for cable makers, as it proposes the electrification, on a large 

 scale, of our main line railways. Great though this scheme 

 is, the question of the available supply will not be so acute as 

 in the case of the gutta percha requirement of the new Atlantic 

 cables referred to in the March issue of the Indi,\ Rubber 

 World. 



duroprene. 

 With regard to what I said in some recent correspondence 

 about this new hydrochloride of rubber varnish, it should be 

 mentioned that its noninflammability applies to the dried film 

 and not to the solution in which it is sold. The solution medium 

 is pure benzene. I understand that arrangements have been 

 made for an exclusive selling agency in America. 

 PERSONAL AND TRADE NOTES. 

 Philip A. Birley, managing director of Chas. Macintosh & Co., 

 Limited, has been elected vice-president of the Manchester 

 Chamber of Commerce and will presumably in due course suc- 

 ceed to the presidency. Since the war the Free Trade directorate 

 of this important chamber has been replaced by men who, in the 

 main, are strongly identified with Protectionist principles and 

 who are representative of a variety of manufacturers, the last 

 president being a shipowner. These facts, it is perhaps advisable 

 to mention, do not mean that the great cotton trade of Man- 

 chester is on the decline or that its magnates have revolted 

 from their previous adherence to Free Trade. 



The Pomona Rubber Works, Limited, of Hulme, Manchester, 



have been disposed of as a going concern to Messrs. Lindsay 



and Williams of London Road, Manchester, and Mr. Shaw, the 



manager, has entered the service of the latter firm. 



Mr. Read, who some time ago sold the Revolite Rubber 



Works, Bradford Road, Manchester, has taken premises at 

 Heywood, near Manchester, and is reentering rubber manu- 

 facture. 



At the beginning of March a party of Canadian officers paid 

 a visit to Manchester and inspected various engineering works. 

 They also visited the works of the Tewell and Eastern Rubber 

 Co., Limited. At a dinner given to them in the Midland Hotel, 

 James Tinto was in the chair and Lieutenant-Colonel Ellis, of 

 the Canadian Engineers, spoke of the business advantages to be 

 derived from personal acquaintance of buyer and seller. He 

 further testified as to the high esteem in which British goods 

 were held in Canada. 



BRITISH EMBARGO ON RUBBER GOODS CONTINUES. 



The prohibition upon importation of rubber manufactures is 

 still in force in the United Kingdom, but it is understood that 

 the ration previously allowed on the basis of 15 per cent of the 

 1916 imports is being continued, at least for rubber tires. Ac- 

 cording to a statement recently made in the British House of 

 Commons, the present restrictions will not be continued beyond 

 September 1, without a complete reconsideration of the whole 

 subject of import restrictions. No promise is implied, however, 

 that the restrictions will be removed by that date. 



Alexander Johnston, J. P., general manager of the North Brit- 

 ish Rubber Co., Limited, Edinburgh and London, has been made 

 managing director of the company. He has been, during the last 

 14 years, secretary, works manager, and general manager, suc- 

 cessively, thus filling all of the principal executive positions. 



AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HEADQUARTERS IN 

 PARIS. 



The American Chamber of Commerce in France has recently 

 removed to new rooms at 32 rue Taitbout, Paris. Its member- 

 ship is now 471, of which 305 are resident, and it is hoped to 

 add some 250 new members this year. The chamber is looking 

 to commercial interests in the United States to avail themselves 

 of its position for fostering their trade in France, also its con- 

 veniences afforded to their representatives while in Paris, in 

 return for the support their membership gives. 



All American citizens, corporations and associations of good 

 standing, interested in the objects of the chamber, are eligible 

 for active membership. The annual dues of active members, 

 including admission fee, are $50 for resident members, $25 for 

 non-resident members. Application blanks and full information 

 may be obtained from the secretary at the above address. 



MARSEILLES TO HAVE A RUBBER MARKET, 

 Until now France has always been content to buy both planta- 

 tion and wild rubber at London, the world's market. The French 

 Government, desirous of establishing a central market at Mar- 

 seilles and in compliance with this policy have made arrangements 

 with the Cie. Chargeurs Reunis, for regular voyages between 

 Para and French ports. The cost of transfer of rubber from 

 Liverpool, amounting to S per cent, would then be removed. As a 

 result, the Booth Line has cut freight rates by 20 per cent. 

 ( "Wileman's Brazilian Review.") 



ITALIAN RUBBER INDUSTRY GROWS. 



Pirelli & Co. of Milan have increased their capital by 3,000,000 

 lire. The Martiny Co. of Twin is about to double its present 

 capital of 6,000,000 lire. 



"The India-Rubber Journal" also announces that the newly 

 formed Association of Rubber and Cable Manufacturers is com- 

 posed of 14 firms, with 20,000 hands. The association's president 

 is Senator J. B. Pirelli, and the vice-presidents are V. Tedeschi, 

 of the Tedeschi Co., Twin, and R. Pola of the Societa Pied- 

 montese Industria Comma e Affini. 



