The Wheel and cycling trade review . It comesfrom Mollendo, a Peruvian seaport, and isquoted at from 2d. to 2%d. below the corre-sponding grades of tire rubber. By the way,it is classified as fine, right alongside of thePara article. Japan has a complete india rubber entire plant, together with the material,machinery and operatives, was supplied by aNew York house. The rubber mill was con-structed by the Birmingham Iron Foundry,Birmingham, Conn. A French motor tricycle weighing 130pounds and costing $320, has successfullycarried a weight of 230 pounds sixty milesover the roads with
The Wheel and cycling trade review . It comesfrom Mollendo, a Peruvian seaport, and isquoted at from 2d. to 2%d. below the corre-sponding grades of tire rubber. By the way,it is classified as fine, right alongside of thePara article. Japan has a complete india rubber entire plant, together with the material,machinery and operatives, was supplied by aNew York house. The rubber mill was con-structed by the Birmingham Iron Foundry,Birmingham, Conn. A French motor tricycle weighing 130pounds and costing $320, has successfullycarried a weight of 230 pounds sixty milesover the roads without a refilling of the oiltanks. On level stretches the machine hasshown a speed of better than twenty-five milesper hour. English corporations have come to the con-clusion that they give their affairs too muchpublicity in their annual reports. Some ofthe largest have already changed, and othersintend to make alterations, in their bylawswhich will keep such details as capital in-vested, net profits and the like from thepublic An Expert in Rubber. The result;; of the various motor-vehicleraces in France show that these conveyancesare still in the experimental stage. A verylarge proportion break down, though it mustbe admitted that they are exposed to greatand unusual strains in being driven at theirtop speed for hours at a time, and this oftenexceeds twenty miles an hour. The Japanese ask for exhibits of manufac-tured merchandise for the Commercial Mu-seum at Osaka, which is to be a Governmentinstitution in the nature of a permanent in-dustrial exposition. American cycle-makersmight find this an excellent opening for theirmachines in Japan. Particulars can be hadby addressing the American Consul. George H. Petit.—Aluminium is the formpreferred by the best writers, as well as bythe chemists and persons who extract alumi-nium and use it. The original name wasaluminum; but that was confounded withalumina, the clay from which the metal isextracted; so to prevent confusion th
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