A survey of the trade in rubber manufactured goods

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Identifikator:: 1848834152

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-240944

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: A survey of the trade in rubber manufactured goods

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Office

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 119 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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+] or of with hat pany need { the 1927, ories oorts than 5yTes ater ome also heir Tyre d to ries and, ular ther pply <ing 1n- —18 the in are old “hey aeds ater sber vfer- Chis h in tion NI1l- for ons and she ing countries. These figures afford the only means of measuring the progress of the rubber manufacturing industries as a whole, whether in competing countries or in the world. ~We then compare the exports of the most important manufacturing countries, notably the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and Germany in tyres, ‘‘ mechanical > rubber, footwear and miscellaneous goods. Owing to the peculiarity in its statistics the exports from France cannot be put in the same mould for purposes of comparison and have to be treated separately. We then give further notes on the industries in these countries as well as in Italy, Belgium, Japan, and Australia, in which the manufacture is of importance but the sxport trade is not so large as in those first mentioned. We close the survey with some brief notes on labour, standardisation, re- search and tendencies in the Rubber Industry. IV.—.GROWTH OF THE RUBBER MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY. 16. The rubber manufacturing industry as we know it to-day 1s »f comparatively recent growth. It is true that it had its historical beginnings in the remote past. Mr. Porritt in his ** Early History of the Rubber Industry *’* states, on the authority of the historian Antonio de Herrera, that Christopher Columbus, during his voyage to the New World between 1493 and 1496, observed the natives of Haiti using in their games balls prepared from the gum of a tree. Whatever justification there is for the assumption that this was rubber, it is certain that the Spanish conquerors in Central and South America speedily became acquainted with the local custom of coating garments with rubber and of fashioning from it crude articles such as bottles and shoes. These uses were not, however, introduced. into Europe until some 250 years later when the French began to investigate the possible uses of the rubber latex. By the end of the eighteenth century, chiefly as the result of researches oy French scientists, the general properties of rubber became mown but the lack of solvents and suitable machinery prevented any considerable use of the material. ven by 1840 the imports of crude rubber into the United Kingdom only amounted to 332 tons. The real beginning of the modern rubber manufacturing industry may be said to date from 1845, by which year the standard processes for the manufacture of rubber goods had been discovered, almost entirely as the result of British invention. These improve- ments in processes led to a steadily widening use of rubber, the imports of which into the United Kingdom in 1870 reached 7,605 tons. In 1875, rubber plants were acclimatised in the Kast, but the plantation industry, of the growth of which we give an * The Early History of the Rubber Industry, by B. D. Porritt, M.Sec., F.1.C., F.R.S.E., F.I.R.I., published by the Rubber Growers’ Association, Inc. Early History.

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