xiv THE RUBBER INDUSTRY 



the Orient ; therefore the price must eventually adjust 

 itself, no matter how great may be the fluctuations in 

 the immediate future. 



Three factors will exercise an important influence 

 over the future of the rubber market. The first is the 

 advent of the steel wire wound or webbed tyre for 

 motor-cars; after long research, a system has been 

 found for the manufacture of these tyres with the re- 

 quired resiliency at one-third the cost of the rubber 

 tyre. The second is that synthetic rubber will become 

 a commercial possibility at no distant date. The third 

 is the amount of reformed rubber that will result from 

 the largely increased production of the crude material. 



C. E. AKERS. 



February, 1914. 



