

THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



\ i-k 1 1. I. 1915. 



RUBBER TRADE INQUIRIES. 



ition, 11 letter; to IS' mptly 



1 105 | \ firm of mam Greal Britain writes us 



that tin')- will - i in the market for the following equip- 



ment, asking to Ik' put in touch with manufacturers in a posi 

 tion to ;iv< prompt deliveries High speed braiding machines 

 i ing electric wire and cables, l< id ■ ovi ring machinery, 

 rubber mixing and calendering machinery, cable maker-.' test- 

 ing equipment and vulcanizing plant. 



\n American manufacture! will be in the market 

 in the course oi the next four or five weeks for a complete 

 line oi machiner) for equipping a small factory for the manu- 

 facture ol mechanical rubber goods. 



GOVERNMENT SUPPLIES. 



opened bj the Bureau of Supplies and M 

 ts, Navy Department, Washington, on April 13. for elec- 

 trical supplies, including "rubber, sheet, hard," under sched- 

 ule N'o 8,067. Schedules may be obtained upon application 

 to the Navy Pay Office nearest each na\y yard, or from the 

 direct 

 Sealed proposals will be received at the office of the Field 

 Medical Supply Depot, United States Vrmy, 21 M street, 

 A , Washington, for furnishing combination hot watei 

 m,l syringes. For quantities and specifications applica- 

 tion should be made to the above office. Report Xo. i.loO. 

 Tin- Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department, 

 Washington, will receive bids until April 6 for the following: 

 Schedule 8016 air hose, rubber-lined cotton hose, rubber tire 

 upper deck fire hose, unlined linen fire hose, garden hose, 

 rubber lire hose, rubbet hose to wash deck, and suction hose; 

 Schedule 8017 flexible metallic copper hose, rubber hose, wire 

 wound rubber hose, wire wound rubber steam hose 



Bids will be opened \pnl 20 by the Bureau of Supplies and 

 Accounts, '' ' i oi 154-inch rubber hose, under 



schedule 8,097. 



TRADE OPPORTUNITIES FROM CONSULAR REPORTS. 



The representative of a large rubber plantation in the East 

 Indie- has informed an American consul that he is producing 

 about 20,000 pounds oi rubber per month (two-thirds smoked 

 sheet, one-third crepe) and that he desires to establish com 

 ial 1 ions with firms in the United States that might 

 care to import rubbei Report No. 15,822 



A met chin, i in Greece wishes to communicate with American 

 i of rubber for rubber stamps. Report N'o. 15,869 



irm in Europe wishes to correspond with American manu- 

 facturers of rubber thread to be used in the textile industry. 

 A sample of the style of thread desired in.n be obtained from 



ign and. Domestic ( ommer ■ its branches. 



Report No. 15,504. 



A i i in in the I nited States has informed the Bureau 



i and Domestic I ommerce that one oi its customers 



doing a general export and import business m Africa desires 



iid a market in tie United States for gutta percha. Re- 



pi irt N'o i .V 21. 



\ manufacturer in one of the neutral European countries di 

 quotations on material similar to samples of rainproof cloth 

 which may l" 1 examined at the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic 

 Commerce at Washing! ranch offices. Report 



Mo. 16,026 



The important role played by cotton in the rubber industry 

 will lie readily understood when it is staled that, estimating at 

 10,000.000 the tire production of the United Slates for 1915, 

 100,000 pounds of cotton will be consumed by the Amer- 

 ican tire industry. 



THE NAVY DEPARTMENT TO ASK BIDS ON DIRIGIBLES. 



The United Stales Government has undei consideration the 

 establishment of government plants at New York and Phila- 

 delphia for the manufacture of aeroplanes, plans having been 

 prepared by the Navy Department for such building, each 



st about $30,(1011 and to he capable of turning out two or 



line, machines a month at an individual cost of $6,000. 



I hi' \a\ j Department is al o about to experiment with 

 dirigible balloons, to determine their availability for use on 

 warships, tine feature of this aircraft which makes h seem 

 especially desirable in this connection is its ability to hover 

 tor long periods ovet a given spot. Specifications have been 

 prepared for a dirigible upon which proposals will soon he 

 invited. These cali for a machine 175 feet lone 5(1 feet, high 

 and 55 feet wide, capable of lifting ami carrying through the 

 air at a speed of 25 miles an hour for two hours, a weight of 

 om ton, in addition to crew and necessary supplies. 

 RECENT CUSTOMS RULING. 



The hoard of United States General Appraisers has overruled 

 the protest of the American Express Co. in the matter of duty 

 on gloves composed of cotton and rubber. The company claimed 

 such imports to be dutiable at 15 pei cent., under paragraph 368 

 of the l'M3 tariff act. whereas they were assessed at 3D per cent., 

 under paragraph 256 of the act. which provides for "articles of 

 wearing apparel of every description composed of cotton or 

 other vegetable fiber and india rubber and not otherwise specially 

 provided for in this section." According to the decision, this para- 

 graph covers all articles of wearing apparel composed in part of 

 india rubber, without regard to what is the component of chief 

 value. The ilecisi.ni goes on to say that "the importer did not 

 make the claim at the trial that the gloves in question arc drug- 

 gists' sundries, and on the evidence before us we hold that the 

 merchandise is dutiable under paragraph 256 as returned." 

 TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



\n interesting lecture on "'fires. Their Use and Abuse" was 

 delivered on the evening of March 11 at the West Side Young 

 Men's Christian Association, Eighth avenue and fifty -seventh 

 street, New York, by G. J. Tietjen, factor} sales manager and 

 chii I adjuster of the Rutherford Rubber Co., oi East Rutherford, 

 New Jersey. The lecture was given under the auspices of 

 the automobile school of the Association, and at its close 

 questions by the audience on the subject of tires were an- 

 swered by the lecturer. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Victor van der l.inde, wdiose retirement from the Century 

 Rubber Co., oi 1'lainiield. New Jersey, was announced in 

 these columns several months ago, has become associated 

 wnh the Union Tire & Rubber Co.. of St. Louis. Missouri, 

 as superintendent. The company intends to manufacture a 

 high grade guaranteed tire and tube, later entering the market 

 with a competitive line. The pn si nt i apacity of the plant is 

 stated to lie 500 tires per day. 



A sei ions accident recently occurred at the plant of the 

 Vulcanized Products Co., at Muskegon, Michigan, when a 

 vulcanizing pies, exploded. Of the two men working on the 

 press at the time. one. Jay ( aswell, was severely, if not 

 fatally, burned, receiving nearly the full force of the escaped 

 steam, and the other received painful injuries. The press, of 

 course, was completely wrecked. 



The Federal Rubber Manufacturit Co.'s branch at Min- 

 neapolis, Minnesota, of which 11. F. Bigelow is manager, is 

 to have new and handsome quarters at 1117 Hennepin avenue, 

 plans being in preparation by the Milwaukee company for 

 the erection of a building, two stories high, with basement. 



The Elyria Wire & Rubber Co., incorporated early in 

 March under the laws of Ohio, with a capital stock of $250,- 

 000, will operate a plant at Elyria, Ohio, manufacturing the 

 products from which it takes its name. 



