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NEW IDEAS for the USE of 
PLANTATION RUBBER 
i st Prize 
2nd 
7 5 g uineas - 
n 2 5 
A Certificate will also be issued by the Exhibition to both of the successful Com¬ 
petitors as an endorsement of the award. 
The above cash prizes are offered by 
THE MINCING LANE TEA & RUBBER SHARE BROKERS' ASSOCIATION, Ltd., 
6, Mincing Lane, E. C., 
for some new ideas in the carrying out of which plantation rubber may be commercially 
used on a large basis. It must be borne in mind that no fancy suggestions are eligible, 
and if entered they will be disqualified ; they must be practical ideas or inventions. 
Competitors are particularly invited to send in manufactured articles or models, and provided they are not 
already patented they are protected by the Board of Trade Certificate for six months after the Exhibition opens 
to enable competitors to take out Patents Protection- t , , . , , 
The Donors of the prizes specify that the successful competitors shall not tie up the invention nor give the 
control of it to a single manufacturer in one country, for the other parts of the world, but they must be prepare,, 
if required to sell the rights, or sanction the working of his patent by manufacturers in this and foreign countries 
""The^sums above mentioned have been lodged with, and banked by A. Staines Manders m a Trust Account, rte 
monev to be paid to the successful competitors three months after the close of the Exhibition pro\ided the con 
ditions have been fulfilled by the competitor. Should no offer have been made for the rights, the successful com- 
oetitors will not be debarred from receiving their awards. , . , . _» 
Manufacturers and others wishing to secure the rights for the manufacture from the invention of the successful 
or any other competitors may obtain their names and addresses from the management; no entrance or any other 
fee^ to be paid by competitors or manufacturers, with the exception of the sum of twenty shillings (20s.) in cash 
which must be lodged with each entry but will be returned to the entrant after his exhibit has been delivered. 
Should however any entrant after having made his entry, fail to send 111 ins exhibit the sum lodged vvill be for¬ 
feited and added to the first and second prizes pro rata. All space for the display of entries will be supplied free. 
Written descriptions, in the form of essays, describing what can be done with plantation rubber, will not be 
eligible though each competitor raav fully describe his invention and its possibilities. It should however be borne 
in mind that simplicity of manufacture, wide world use and large consumption of rubber, are three of the principal 
^^TheDonor s do'noTwislfVo be too exacting in their conditions but would emphasise the fact that Practical 
ideas are what are required, and neither they, nor the Exhibition Management wish to share in any future lesults 
derived by the successful or any other competitor. 
Date of Entry. 
and addressed 
_ All entries must be made on or before Monday, May, 19 1 4 * 
The Awards Committee, 
c/o A. Staines Manders, 
Exhibition Offices, 
7<;, Chancery Lane (Holborn), 
London, W.C. 
The following is an example of a form of entry that may be used, but it should 
be legibly written, or typed, on one side of the paper only. II more than one idea is 
entered, a separate entry must be made for each. 
I/We beg to enter for the Mincing Lane Tea & Rubber Share Brokers Association, 
Ltd., Competition, and enclose the sum of 20s. (twenty shillings) which is to be re¬ 
turned to me/us provided I/we send in our exhibit by the 10th June, 1914; failing 
this we agree to forfeit the sum mentioned. 
My/Our entry consists of . 
The invention is my/our property ; I/we am are the sole owner and Inventor and agree 
to abide by the judges’ decision which is to be final and without appeal. 
Name .. 
Full address .. 
Note —No charge will be made to compel itors for the display of exhibits which will be arranged by the Exhibi¬ 
tion Management, but free admission tickets will not be issued to Competitors. 
Entries close 4th May, 1914. 
