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A HAND POWER CREPING AND SHEETING 



We have received from Messrs. Howarth Erskine's a photograph 

 and description of a little hand power creping and sheeting machine 

 for the use of estates not yet equipped with power factories. In small 

 or commencing estates, where the output is small, and not enough to 

 warrant the use of an engine for creping or sheeting, the worker 

 generally has to use a mangle for turning out his sheet and the 

 ordinary scrap is simply made into balls and bark scrap wasted. 

 The new design invented by Messrs. Howarth Erskine's is destined 

 to save all this waste and to turn out first class crepe or sheet 

 according to the rolls used. Many estates have already commenced 

 using this handy little machine which is a great advance on the 

 mangle which was hitherto our only machine for dealing with small 

 lots of rubber. — Ed. 



MACHINE. 



