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Other Rubber Products.
Mechanical Rubber Goods .
Boots and Shoes ... I~ ...
Heels and Soles... .. .. os
Insulated Wire and Insulating Compounds
 ... ane oe ” .
Miscellaneous rubber articles n.e.i. I.
Rubberised Fabrics n.e.l. es es
Druggist Sundries, Medical and Surgical
 rubber goods ves i.
Sporting goods, Toys and Novelties
Stationers’ Rubber Goods A.
Rubber Clothing ... i. ae
Hard Rubber Goods oe
Rubber Flooring ... vn
Automobile Fabrics ee .
Bathing Apparel ...

Tons.
17,894
16,894
5 591

Percentage
of Total.

4.40
4.15
1.40

3,444
3,214
2.9237

0.80
0.80
0.50

1,577
1,380
1,271
1,248
1,110
1,062
961
897

0.40
0.40
0.30
0.30
0.30
0.30
0.20
0.15

Total—Other Rubber Products ...
Grand Total oo . N

58,370
4106 849

14.40
100.00

21. Thus. in the United States more than 85 per cent. of the
rubber absorbed in industry is used in the manufacture of tyres.
In other countries the proportion is somewhat less. In the United
Kingdom, Canada, Australia and France it is probably between 70
per cent. and 75 per cent. In most other countries it is below
this figure; but in all the important manufacturing countries it is
the chief use to which rubber is put. As already stated it is
estimated that the tyre industry of the world absorbs some 75
per cent. of the total production of crude rubber. The needs of
all the other varied rubber industries are satisfied by ‘25 per cent.
of the eride rubber gsvailable.

VII.-RECLAIMED RUBBER.

22. The foregoing paragraphs deal with the production and distribution
 of crude rubber. Reclaimed rubber is also used in industry,
 although experience has not been sufficient to prove that
it is a satisfactory substitute for crude rubber. No countries except
 the United States, in which rubber reclaiming has been further
developed than elsewhere, compile statistics of the quantities absorbed.
 In the United States 150,000 tons of reclaimed rubber
were used in 1928 in addition to the 440,000 tons of crude rubber.
For certain minor products reclaimed rubber is said to be not only

Use in the
ndustry
reherally.