An Australian inventor, Mr John Flint, of Sydney, claims to have succeeded in the world's search for synthetic rubber, and to have found a way of producing an efficient substitute for rubber, at a very low cost. The substitute is an entirely Australian product, all the ingredients being obtainable in the Commonwealth, and successful « experiments in the vulcanising process have already been carried out with it. The invention has been patented. The claim is made that it- can be produced at a price from 5d to Gd per lb, a s against the present price of rubber, which, runs from 3s to 4 S 2d per lb.
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 15649, 22 July 1916, Page 7
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