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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November 1, 1914. 



"GALBULOSE," A NEW PROOFING. 



JUST what "Galbulose" is made of the inventor. William 

 kintosh, of Liver] 1, England, refuses to state. Mr 



that it is a chemical combination of a fossil resin and 

 cellulose. The raw product looks 

 like sheet balata, and this, treated 

 with a certain solvent, is spread on 

 cloth for proofing, just as rubber is. 

 The product, he it said, is called 

 "Zama" cloth. Mi Mackintosh has 

 a factory near Liverpool, operated bj 

 the Zama Co., Ltd., ami an American 

 factory at Springside, Stamford, 

 Connecticut. ["his is called the 

 British American Manufacturing Co 



He claim- to haw orders for artm 

 blanket-, tents and ponchos from tin' 

 British ami French governments and 

 to have -old some four hundred 

 thousand yards to the United States 

 government. 



As an. old rubber man. Mr. Mack 

 intosh ought to know what the trade 



call- tor in coated fabrics, lie starteil 

 with the North British RuDber Co., 

 Ltd., in 1880, and was with them for 

 tin j ears Then he went to the 



Harburg-Wien Co., then back to 

 England to the Silvertown Co. After 

 a hit he went with the Austrian- 

 American i 0., then with the Con- 

 tinental at Hannover, then with 

 Reithoffer in Austria, then with 

 Klinger in Hungary. Leaving the 

 German speaking peoples, he spent 

 three years in the rubber shoe factory 

 at Malmo, Sweden, after which he 



signed up with the International Co. at Brussels, Belgium. In 

 1907 he returned to England and engaged in proofing on his own 

 account — and Galbulose is the result. At present he is making, 

 besides army blankets and ponchos, hospital sheet, aeroplane 

 double texture cloth, eti 



ENGLISH CONFIDENCE RESTORED. 



i Mi the declaration of war, English rubber manufacturers and 

 dealers in rubber goods felt much alarmed at the prospects. 

 The prompt action of the Government in taking over private cars 

 and in purchasing liberally from manufacturers, speedily re- 



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Poncho as Worn When Carrying Arms. 2. Cape Which Covers Blanket 



Equipment When Marching. 3. As a Ground Sheet or Sleeping Pouch. 



4. Slicker Showing Opening for Cavalry. 



stored confidence in various important lines. These conditions 

 have become still more favorable by the fact that the owners 

 of the cars requisitioned have been placing orders for new vehi- 

 cles, and that the war office is continuing to order motors freely. 

 The present war is one of motors; every conceivable form of 

 automobile having been impressed 

 in thousands into the service of the 

 English and Continental armies. 



ENGLISH MOTOR AND TIRE BUSINESS. 



An enormous order for motor 

 cars is said to have been secured 

 from the Russian Government by 

 the Austin Motor Company, which, 

 it is understood, will indirectly 

 benefit the Dunlop Tire Co., whose 

 tires have been in the past large!) 

 used by the above-named company. 



The Birmingham depot of Pirelli 

 & Co., Milan, has received an im- 

 port nit shipment of tires and cables 

 from its Italian factory. This con- 

 cern has been showing the "basket" 

 tire, a new model, 32 x 4 inches, 

 which has non-skid qualities but 

 dispenses with the use of steel 

 studs 



Ponchos Used as a Tent. 



The accepted authority on South 

 American rubber — "The Rubber 

 Country of the Amazon," by Henry 

 C. Pearson. 



