30 
Progress’of 
production 
of tyres. 
factory was £10,019,000 a slight increase on the 1927 total. Sales 
of tyres during the year were valued at £10,579,800 of which 
£9,580,000 represented domestic sales and £999.800 sales for ex. 
port. 
104. Numbers of different kinds of tyres produced in Germany 
in 1928 show an increase in production on previous years in all 
cases except pedal cycle tyres and solid tyres for motor vehicles. 
Since the end of 1927 the demand for solid tyres has declined 
owing to the preference for pneumatic tyres and to the imminence 
in certain localities of legislation to prohibit the use of solid tyres. 
The total value of the raw materials used in the tyre industry 
in 1928 was less than that in 1927, but the decrease was due to 
the decline in the price of raw rubber. Of the total value of 
the raw materials used by the 23 factories reporting, namely 
£5,250,000, crude rubber accounted for about 50 per cent., fabric 
for 31 per cent., chemicals for 13 per cent. and reclaimed rubber 
for three per cent. The remaining three per cent. included steel 
rims for solid tyres and other semi-manufactured materials of 
steel. iron. wire and the like 
XXII.—THE INDUSTRY IN JAPAN. 
Production. 
105. As we have shown in paragraph 18, Japan occupies the 
sixth place in the world production of rubber manufactured goods. 
In 1929, the Japanese industry absorbed 84,000 tons of crude 
rubber, or 4.22 per cent. of the world absorption. The following 
table summarises the official figures of production during recent 
years :— 
Production of Rubber Manufactured Goods in Japan. 
Year. 
Boots and shoes. ! 
£000 
Tyres. | Other kinds. 
£000 £000 
Total. 
£000 
1920 ... . 
1921 ... ” 
1922 ... - or 
1923 ... ee ane 
1924 ... or ee 
1925 ... stv wes 
1926 ... a . 
457 
,264 
993 
1,231 
1,270 
- 1,392 
Not available. 
622 
“9% 
17g 
29 
408 
/,327 
L616 
'704 
751 
617 
"47 
ht 
3,683 
1,439 
4,286 
4,708 
5,195 
5,563 
5 665 
The manufacture of tyres has not increased since 1923, as that 
of other kinds of rubber manufactures, due chiefly to the destruc- 
tion, in the 1923 earthquake, of the works of the Yokohama Rubber 
Company (a joint enterprise between the Furukawa Company and 
the Goodrich Rubber Company). The works have been re-erected, 
and manufacture has recently been restarted