EXPERIMENTS FAIL
“NO SUBSTITUTE FOR \ RUBBER” 1 TYRE EXPORTER’S OPINIO# “Although experiments are beißl tried everywhere, no one has yet d* covered a substitute for rubber.” Mr. A. E. Patterson, export manag* for the Goodyear Tyre Company sail yesterday that many men have trW j to find a substitute, but so far tiHf £ have all failed. I He arrived yesterday by the MagH* direct from the head office ot & - Goodyear Company at Akron, Obfo j, America, and will stay for some tiß# in Australia and New Zealand. M He said that recently his comp**’ had opened a factory in Sydney & that it was doing very welL Mr. Patterson says that the rubb* ® market is very firm at present & a there is no sign of a shoi tage. Mo* of the rubber used for the manuf&ctifl* of tyres comes from the Malay Stat* There is a good deal of the wild P* « duct obtainable from Brazil, bat tb natives are lazy and it is difficult & * commercialise the rubber from tb* • part of the world. This is Mr. Patterson's first visit # New Zealand and despite the fact tb* he had heard so much about Auckl** n he was surprised to see so large <fa city. !■ ~ - h
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 243, 4 January 1928, Page 8
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204EXPERIMENTS FAIL Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 243, 4 January 1928, Page 8
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