NEW RUBBER PROCESS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 115, 18 May 1927, Page 17

NEW RUBBER PROCESS

A HUNGARIAN INVENTION

Patent rights for the whole world, excepting the United States and Franco, have been acquired by a new company formed to develop a series «of processes relating to the manufacture of motor tubes, tires, and other rubber goods. Tho essential ' feature 'of those processes is the deposition of rubber direct from latex by means of electricity; that is to say, rubber will be used 'in its natural liquid state as latex. It is claimed ,iOr the process that it dispenses with a large amount of plant, power, and labour, that it preserves the national nerve of the rubber, and that it ensures superior quality and economy in the use of rubber.

The now process, which is stated to have already passed the experimental stage, is tho invention of Dr. Paul Klein, of the Hungarian Rubber Goods Factory: Dr. Klein is the managing director of the company, which is named the Anode Rubber Co., Ltd. Its chairman is Sir Eric Geddes, chairman of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.; its vicechairmen are Mr. Julius Kleb> vicechairman of Hungarian General Creditbank and vice-chairman of Hungarian Rubber Goods Factory, Ltd., and Mr. Hugo Marcus, vice-chairman of "Wiener Bank Vereiu, and chairinau of the Hun-

garian Rubber Goods Factory,. Ltd. The other directors are stated to be Sir J. George Beharrell, D.5.0., managing director of Dunlop Rubber Co., Wd.; Mr. Alexis Duvaux, director Cie Generate d'Eleetrieite, Paris; Baron Wilheml V. OSenheim, president of Gahcian Oil Co. (Galicia), Ltd.; Mr Julius Priester, director Hungarian Rubber Goods Factory, Ltd.; Mr. F. Alexander Szarvasy, chairman of British, Foreign, and Colonial Corporation, Ltd., and director Dunlop .Rubber Co Ltd.; and Mr. Alfred Schwarz, director Wiener Bank Verein, and director Hungarian Rubber Goods Factory, Ltd. In the United States the patent rights are held by a separate company, in which the new company has a substantial interest along with the Eastman Kodak Co. and the B. F. Goodrich Company, and in France a separate company, owned by the shareholders of the new cornrany, has been created.

About 00 per cent, of the sales of motor-cars in Canada involve the taking of used cars in exchange, and the purchaser expects a liberal allowance on his old car. This is one of , the stumbling-blocks in securing a market for the productions from factories in Great Britain. ■.

While Londoners are sometimes prone to think that the streets are always "up," and that no sooner is a new surface laid than it is broken up for some utility purpose, such cases are, fortunately, by no means common. It may be a surprise to the general public, writes Sir Henry Jackson, M.P., member of the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory ■ Committee,, in "The, TimeB 1' special motor number, to know that the pavement which was taken up last year in Whitehall had actually been down, under most trying traffic conditions, for more than fifteen years, while Victoria street, until relaid last year, had been in service, subject only to the qualification that' sundry repairs had been carried out from time to time, for more than 25 years.

Sparking plugs of the detachable mica-insulated variety should never be cleaned by scraping the inner portion of the mica with any sharp instrument, because' the scratches which will be left on the surface of thb.miea around the central electrode allow carbon to form readily, and, possibly, to set up a short-circuit. The correct precedure is to wipe off all loose soot with a rag moistened with petrol and then to polish, the mica with ordinary liquid metal polish; che higher 1 the sheen obtained tho greater will be the carbonresisting powers of the insulation surface. ■'■.■;■.■.

An old lady walked up to a stationary taxi and told the driver to drive her to a certain suburb. "Jump in," said tho driver. "Not until you have started the engine," said the old lady. The man got down from his seat and started his engine with half a turn of the crank. During the journey they had to ascend a steep hill; on which the engine "Iconised?' out. Tho old lady poked her head out the window and said, knowingly, "I thought" you had not wound it up onpugh." f