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

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: IV. Growth of the rubber manufacturing industry

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Effeet of she motor ndustry on rubber production. account in Appendix I, met with little success until the develop- ment of cycling and motoring after 1900. 17. The rapid increase in the use of bicycles and tricycles ‘ollowed the invention of the pneumatic tyre by J. B. Dunlop in L888* and its still greater future use on motor vehicles was fore- shadowed in 1895, when a car equipped with such tyres competed in the Bordeaux-Paris trials. These new uses for rubber caused » phenomenal growth in the plantation industry and a great im- provement in the cleanliness and manner in which the raw product was marketed. In 1887, just before Dunlop’s invention, the gross exports of rubber from producing countries was estimated at 17,280 tons, of which anything from a quarter to a third was dirt and impurities. Thirteen years later in 1900 the total world supply had reached 40,000 tons of clean rubber and a small quantity of plantation rubber—4 tons—appeared for the first time in London 28 a marketable product. Meanwhile the price, which in 1887 had averaged 2s. per lb., had risen, in 1900, for Fine Para to 4s. 3d. and for poorer qualities to 2s. 5d. After another 13 years, in 1913, plantation rubber accounted for 47,600 tons out of a world production of 108,000 tons. Fifteen years later, in 1928, the pro- duction of plantation rubber was 620,168 tons out of a world total of 649,674 tons. The figures for recent years are as follows :— World Production of Rubber.’ 1913 1919 1925 1926 1927 1998 Plantation. tons. 47,618 285,225 181,955 376,955 567,504 320.168 Brazil. tons. 39,370 34,285 27,386 26,433 30,952 4 556 Other (Africa and Central America). tons. 21,452 7,350 8,735 11,390 8,740 4.950 Total. tons. 108,440 326,860 516,076 514,778 505,196 349.674 ! Figures supplied by the India Rubber Manufacturers’ Association. The production of crude rubber in 1929 is estimated at 860,000 bons, of which some 835,000 tons would be plantation and 25.000 tons wild rubber. V.—ABSORPTION IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. Distri- 18. A trade esfimate of the quantities of crude rubber bought iy of hy the roanufacturing industries in different countries has crude rubber. * An earlier invention of a pneumatic tyre by R. W. Thomson in 1845 had borne no commercial results.

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