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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1. 1915. 



papers and in the discussions Except in 



i Leyland & Birmingham Rubber Co.. Limited, 



it w: ■ example was nol followed by 



rtance. A further contribution from the 



h I'.ritish company is to be found in tin- June IS issu 



the "Journal ociety of Chemical Industry," in the 



-r., Wheatley and I orritt, describing 



iv machine for the preparation of vulcanized rubber for 



analysis. The machine is briefly an improved application of 



the time honored file and seems destined to give excellent 



ice in the ease of g Is to which the file was applicable. 



With regard to raw rubber and reclaimed rubber, however, 

 the new machine, as the authors definitely imply, leaves us 

 much in the same position as be 



Rl BB1 l; MEN IX AC'I'IN I. SE l<\ [CE. 

 Rolls of honor with tin names of members who are in 

 active service are now familiar objects in clubs, headquarters 

 of societies, business premises, etc. To attempt any such in 

 the case of a whole industry would prove a very formidable 

 task, though we may ye1 see something done for the rubber 

 trade on .1 more complete and comprehensive scale than the 

 nt casual notices of certain combatants which have ap- 

 peared in the technical press. By way of adding to these 

 -•uttered allusions it is with much regret that I mention the 

 on active service in the Dardanelles of Lieutenant Col. 

 J. V Fallows, of the Eighth Lancashire Fusiliers (Territorial 

 Force 1. His battalion was one of the first to volunteer for 

 ign service and went to Egypt last September. The 

 had been connected with the Leyland & Birmingham 

 Rubber Co.. Limited, for 30 years and was well known in 

 Manchester, having been for many years manager of the 

 any's depot in that time. In recent years he had been 

 entirely at the works and at the outbreak of war held the 

 positions of commercial manager and departmental director. 

 \ memorial service held at Leyland church was attended by 

 the directors and officials of the company, and it is superfluous 

 to add that bis loss will be keenly felt by his numerous 

 friends in the rubber trade. 



Rupert Turner, of Turner Bros.. Limited. Rochdale, is at- 

 tached to the Royal Army Medical Corps and has been in 

 active service since last September in connection with am- 

 bulance work. 1 1 is firm has given an ambulance car and also 

 a repairing car for field service. 



Walter Wild, late works manager of Wood Milne, Limited. 

 1- now a lieutenant attached to the First Manchester Ter- 

 ritori 



11 G. Moseley, of David Moseley & Sons. Limited, has 

 taken a commission in the Earl of Chester's Yeomanry. Mr. 

 Moseley has been well known in the hunting field and on the 

 polo ground. 



Lieut. Sath, special rtserve First East Lancashire Regiment. 



ieen awarded the Military Cross, the new distinction for 



service at the front. lie has been wounded and invalided 



home on two occasions. At the outbreak of war he was 



chemist at the works of the Premier Waterproof & Rubber 



imited, of Manchester. 



Lieut. W'allwark. whose father is well known in 

 n with Thomas Rowley & Co., of Manchester, has 

 wounded in service with the Ardwick Territorials at the 

 Dardanelles. 



Sidney Frankenburg, of the well known Salford firm, is 

 in ambulance car work with the Expeditionary 

 Force on the Continent. 



Frankenstein, of P. Frankenstein & Sons. Limited, of the 

 Victoria Rubber Works, Manchester, has joined the Motor 

 Transport Corp-. 



ICO YEARS IN THE NORTH BRITISH RUBBER CO. EMPLOY. 



The North British Rubber Co., Limited, Castle Mills. Edin- 

 burgh, is notable, at g Other things, for the extreme length 



Of time it retains it- employees and the loyalu of the latter 

 io tlie oticern. Previous issues of this paper have noted 

 of long periods of employment, and an- 

 "ther has : e to our notice through the presentation 



of a gold watch and an illuminated address to Alexander 

 Murray McKenzie by the management of the North I'.ritish 

 company on th iion of his retirement, about July 1, on 



the completion oi 42 years' service. Mr. McKenzie's father 

 was in the emploj of the company for 3(1 years, and other 

 members have brought the combined ser\iccs , ,f the Mc- 

 Kenzie family in the North British company up to a total of 

 about 100 '.ears. 



MASTER AND SERVANT. 



Under the above title "The India-Rubber Journal" of April 

 24, 1915, notes an interesting case upon which judgment has re- 

 cently been given in the Court of Appeals, affecting the relation 

 of master and servant, using these terms for employer and em- 

 ployee. 



A certain draughtsman reached the position of leading 

 draughtsman and eventually head of the selling department of 

 an English company. On attaining this position he signed an 

 agreement that if he left the company's employ he would not 

 for seven years thereafter enter the employ of any other con- 

 cern in tb.e same business. This agreement he did not observe, 

 but took service with a competitor. Action was taken by the 

 first company to compel its former employee to observe his 

 agreement. The trial justice rendered a decision in favor of the 

 employee, on the ground that such an agreement was against 

 public policy and could not be enforced. Appeal was taken 

 against this judgment and a majority of the judges of the Court 

 of Appeals upheld the original decision on the same ground. 

 The law is stated as "On the one hand it was in the public 

 interest that a covenant should he observed and enforced, but it 

 was al-o in the public interest that a man should be free to use 

 his skill and experience to the best advantage." 



Doubtless such an agreement as the above is rarely required 

 by American manufacturers in any line, although there are in- 

 timations that the signing of similar contracts has been required 

 in the rubber trade. They would probably fail of enforcement 

 as completely in the United State- as in England if tested in the 

 courts. 



The Xew York Belting & Packing Co. has discontinued 

 its London office and will transact business through the 

 Luffed States Rubber Co., Limited. 47 I'arringdon street. 

 London. E. C. The goods offered and the organization will 

 remain as before. 



An experimental section of rubber pavement has been laid 

 in front of the Malay States Information office at 88 Cannon 

 street. London. The tiles are 12 inches square and '_■ inch 

 thick, manufactured from plantation rubber. 



The war has reduced the number of licensed 'buses being 

 perated in London from 3.406 one year ago to 2.211 at the 

 present time. 



The Dunlop Rubber Co.. Limited, of Birmingham, has con- 

 tributed to the new British war loan to the extent of £230.000. 



•i every rubber man's desk — Crude Rubber and 

 pounding Ingredients; Rubber Country of the Amazon; 

 er Trade Directory of the World. 



Waste Rubber (North Western 1. Limited, has been regis- 

 tered in London, with offices at 3 Fenchurch street. E. C. 

 to carry on the business of manufacturing india rubber, etc. 

 new enterprise has a capitalization i<\ £5.000. 



