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:: XXIX. Research

Collection:: Economics Books

76 1920 with the formation of the Research Association of British Rubber Manufacturers which was organised with assistance from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. The Association does not take the place of the scientific staffs at works, but supplements their activities. Its primary function is to under- take fundamental investigations into the utilization of rubber for which the factory laboratory has frequently neither the time nor the facilities, and to disseminate scientific and technical data and information regarding the treatment of rubber, and apparatus for 'aboratory and factory control. Research Association of British Rubber Manu- facturers. 137. The problems already dealt with in the laboratories of the Association cover a wide range of general interest to all sections of the industry. In addition a Library and Information Bureau has been developed in which the information in scientific and technical journals bearing on rubber is classified and indexed. The abstracts so obtained form the basis of the ‘‘ Summary of Current Literature >’ which is issued monthly to members. The organiza: fon of a section dealing with trade and commercial intelligence of interest to the rubber industry was contemplated but is at present in abeyance. Some 300 university graduates in science are now employed in the various branches of the rubber industry in the United Kingdom and the Association focus much of their activities to attracting the attention of manufacturers to the services which trained scientists can render. 138. The Association is organised on a voluntary basis. In accordance with general practice the grants made by the Depart- ment of Scientific and Industrial Research have decreased; in 1925 they were £2,000; in 1928 they were £800. It is estimated that, excluding the cable manufacturers, the firms who are members of the Association utilise about 70 per cent. of the raw rubber absorbed by industry in Great Britain and represent about 70 per cent. of the capital invested in the industry. Considerable difficulty has been experienced in arriving at a basis for the assess- ment of contributions. The wide range of products covered by the rubber industry, and the variation in the proportion of rubber used in manufacturing different articles rendered difficult assess- ments based on the value of output, or of capital employed in the industry. A large measure of agreement was obtained in 1929 to the imposition by statute of a levy at the rate of 1/25 of a penny a Ib. on rubber used in manufacture in the United Kingdom. If this measure had been passed into law the Research Associa. tion would have received in 1929 an income of some £15,000. The pressure of Parliamentary business, however, prevented its consideration. Steps are being taken to finance the Association by voluntary subscriptions supplemented by departmental grant.

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