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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Title:: XV. The industry in the United Kingdom

Collection:: Economics Books

Production. Oversea firms manu. facturing n the United Kingdom. 75. Details of the production of rubber manufactures in the United Kingdom for the last year in which a Census of Production was taken, 1924, are given in Appendix III. Firms that made their Returns on Schedules for the Rubber Trade in 1924 employed 39,350 operative staff and 7,215 managerial, scientific and clerical staffs. Their output was valued at £23,309,000, namely Tyres £10,382,000; Rubber Sheet and Thread £907,000 (part of which may have been duplicated in the value of other goods) ; Other Rubber Goods £9,715,000 ; Waterproofing, etec., done for the trade (chiefly for merchants) £514,000 ; Goods not of rubber £1,791,000. In addition waterproof garments to the value of £1,606,000 were returned by firms engaged in the Clothing Trades, and games, toys, etc., to the value of £800,000 by firms engaged in the Games and Toys Trades. The aggregate value of rubber goods of all kinds (except insulated cables and wires and some surgical and scientific instruments) made in 1924 was thus between 23 and 24 millions sterling. The value of production in the rubber industry returned in the United Kingdom Census of 1907 was £8,908,000. The rubber industry of the United Kingdom thus increased between 1907 and 1924 by some 160 per cent. As in 1924 the price of raw rubber was only some 25 per cent. of what it had been in 1907, the volume of output had probably increased tenfold. Although no details of production for years subsequent to 1924 are available, the figures of absorption of raw rubber indicate that in 1928, the output of rubber factories in the United Kingdom was more than double that in 1924. Further expansion occurred during 1929, due largely to the great development in the tyre industry in this country. The India Rubber Manufacturers’ Association ‘estimate that, in 1928, some 60,000 workpeople were employed in 120 factories in the United Kingdom. Forty of these 120 factories probably account for 90 per cent. of the output. 76. The most notable feature of the rubber tyre industry of the United Kingdom is that, since 1927, several of the more important foreign tyre manufacturers have set up factories in the United Kingdom. Those that have already done so are :— Goodrich Tyre Co.; Firestone Tyre & Rubber Co. (1922), Ltd., at Brentford; Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co. (Great Britain), T.td., at Wolverhampton; Indian Tyre & Rubber Co. (Great Britain), I.td., at Inchinnan; Industrial Rubber Manufacturers, Ltd., licensed to make and sell Miller tyres; Michelin & Co., at Stoke-on-Trent: Pirelli, T.td.. at Burton- nm-Trent. These companies are in a position to use their branches in the United Kingdom to supply Empire markets and those which are

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