At the finish tho German army had to use wooden tyres on their transport motor vehicles, owing .to no rubber being available. From this it does not look as if the German scientists were successful in their efforts to produce synthetic rubber on a commercial basis.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3383, 15 January 1919, Page 24
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