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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March 1, 1915. 



the French and Belgian works arc almost quiescent except for 

 war vehicles. Perhaps, the "Engineer" suggests, America will 

 furnish the bulk of the exhibits, which may be the reason for 

 holding the show at such a time. 



\ NEW RUBBER COMPANY. 



n tin metaphorical ashes oi the Lancashire Rubber Works. 

 Limited, in Pollard street, Manchester, a new company, called 

 Hard Rubbei I o., has risen. Refereno was recently 

 to the piece-meal sale by auction of the first named c< m 

 which was in financial difficulties The rather curious re- 

 sult of this sale was the total amount realized proved to be one- 

 third more than the sum at which the plant and slock were - I 

 neer in one lot. 



[NEN1 \l. IYUI-. ( 0. (GREAT BRITAIN), LIMITED. 

 I referred in mj Januarj notes to the judgment given in the 

 High Court in favor of this companj as regards collects n i 



m England during the war. This judgment was appealed 

 and was considered by a special Court of Appeal presided over 

 by the Lord Chief Justice, with the result that the judgment of 

 tin ci url below was upheld. This means that an alien company 

 •cred in England can maintain an action even though all of 

 its shares are held by enemies. Germany cannot complain of 

 anj bias in our courts, though in England the judgment is by no 

 . popular generally. 



CRUDE RUBBER SHIPMENTS. 

 Henceforward it will be possible to state definitely the imports 

 into and exports from the United Kingdom of waste and re- 

 claimed rubber as from January 1 this year the British Board of 

 Trade commenced giving the figures separately in their monthly 

 returns. In January England imported 18,700 pounds and ex- 

 ported 383.900 pounds of waste and reclaimed rubber. Exports 

 of raw rubber were less than one-half the quantity shipped dur- 

 ing January, 1914. Here are the figures: 



To— 1914. 1915. 



Russia pounds 1,591,500 737,200 



Germany 1,850.300 



ium 660,500 



France 1.323,900 687,900 



O'pitei 3,556,400 766,600 



ei countries 839,200 2,041,700 



rotal 9,821,800 4,233,400 



Compared with the December figures there is. nevertheless, 

 an increase of about 750,000 pounds in our total exports of rub- 

 ber, all the importing countries having taken more with the ex- 

 ception of Russia. 



ASBESTOS. 

 Asbestos slates, which are now largely manufactured in Eng 

 land, have recently found a new application, as they have been 

 bought by the Admiralty to cover the decks of men-of-war to 

 minimize the danger of fires when in action. It might be thought 

 that there was not much to take fire on deck but this is evidentlj 

 not the opinion of those in authority. 



RUBBER HEELS IN ENGLAND. 



The American consuls stationed at Huddersfield and SI 

 field, England, under dates of January 5 and 8, reported on the 

 rubber heel situation in their respective districts. From these 

 reports it appears that the rubber heel is increasing somewhat 

 in favor in England, as in the United States, and that prices 

 from 12 to 36 cents per pair at retail, the wholesale price 

 being 12 to 25 per cent, below this figure. The charge for tit- 

 ting is extra. They are supplied chiefly by domestic manu- 

 facturers, and while distributed to a certain extent through 

 the jobbing houses, are more frequently introduced through the 

 hiring concerns, when special concessions in prices 

 and terms must be made. Rubber heels are not advertised in 

 these districts to any extent. 



IRADE NOTES. 



The employes of the India Rubber, Gutta Percha & Tele- 

 graph Works Co., Limited, of Silvertown, London, had sub- 

 scribed, up to the first of February, £537. 13s. 3d. (about J2.600) 

 to National, Red Cross and Belgian relief funds, and it is their 

 hope to continue as long as may be necessarj to donate ilOO 

 monthly, to be distributed between these three funds. 



\\ . T. Henley's Telegraph Works ( o., Limited, whose Lon- 

 don office— which has a floor area of about 6,000 square feet — 

 is at 18 Union street, Moorfields, E. ( .. has by various additions 

 recently doubled the size of its plant at Gravesend, and now 

 lias under waj -till further additions and improvements. 'Ibis 

 companj is receiving largo orders, particularly for solid tires. 



The W 1- M ilnt Co. is another of the British concerns that 



have lately increased their productive capacities, having a new 

 factory building under course of erection. The present capac- 

 itj of the plant is said to be about 1,000 solid tires per week. 

 The companj alsi proposes to acquire extra land at Leyland 

 on which to build further factory additions. 



The firm of E. Parser & Co. has been organized to carry on 

 in London the business of importing and dealing in crude rub- 

 ber. Mr. E. Parser, the head of the new company, was for 

 many years engaged in similar business at Antwerp, but owing 

 to conditions arising from the war he has removed to London, 

 opening offices at 9-10 King street, Cheapside, E. C. 



E. E. Hodgson, for many years resident in the United States 

 and for some time past interested in the Empire Rubber Co., 

 scrap rubber and metal merchants, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 

 having joined the British army, his partnership with II. Water- 

 house ("Rubber Billy") has been dissolved. The latter is now 

 sole proprietor of the Empire Rubber Co., also of the Rubber 

 Ring Manufacturing Co., of Leeds. 



RUBBER MANUFACTURERS AND MOTOR SHOWS. 



The New Motor & General Rubber Co., Limited, of London, 

 has instituted legal proceedings against the Society of Motor 

 Manufacturers & Traders, Limited, organizers of the Inter- 

 national motor exhibitions at Olympia. claiming the right as 

 members of the society to ballot for space at the exhibitions 

 and asking an injunction to restrain the society from exclud- 

 ing them fram such ballot, also damages for breach of agree- 

 ment and for being denied the right to exhibit at the 1913 show. 

 The defendant society makes a general denial of these claims. 

 The plaintiff company joined the society in 1906. In 1907 the 

 society's charter was changed, the new rules providing that 

 only manufacturers ox sole concessionaires of manufacturers 

 of motor cars should thereafter be entitled to ordinary member- 

 ship — no firm enjoying membership prior to the close of 1906 

 being included in this rule — all others to be associate members. 

 The formation by the plaintiff company, in 1910. of Almagam, 

 Limited, is held by the defendants to have terminated member- 

 ship in the society, the clause relating to old members not 

 applying. 



Mr. Thomas Warwick, managing director of the New Motor 

 company, is the inventor of "Almagam" and "Rubmetal,'' for 

 tire repairing, both of which are manufactured by the Asso- 

 ciated Rubber Manufacturers. Limited. 



The Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, which 

 was to have been held in London during the fall of 1914, has 

 lien postponed, and is now scheduled to take place during the 

 fall of the present year, at * Hympia, London. 



In the French armored cars, where the machine gun is mounted 

 in a rotating turret with a flange resting on the edge of the 

 circular aperture in the roof, a rubber ring is fitted under the 

 flange to prevent movement of the turret during firing. 



