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declared that his company has produced a successful conducting rubber. Whereas natural rubber has a resistance of 1,000,000,000,000,000 ohms per cubic centimetre, Dunlop's conducting tire rubber records only 30 ohms per c.c., its cable rubber only ten ohms. On how the rubber is made, Engineer Elden was mum. Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp. has taken out no patents, for patenting would make the details public, but has begun to market its conducting rubber...
...Rubber which conducts electricity sounds like an anomaly-but such a rubber would be an advantage for airplane and truck tires, for rubber hospital floors. Reason: conducting rubber would continuously discharge static electricity, prevent it from accumulating to the point of spark peril. Static sparks in hospitals have been known to cause anesthetics to explode. In The Rubber Age, Engineer Howard E. Elden of Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp...
Lincoln, long the $2,500-and-up crown jewel of Ford, is superseded this year by Lincoln-Zephyr, Lincoln Continental and Lincoln Custom. The foreign-looking, rakish Continental (introduced last year), has extra-large, square-cornered trunk and upright rear tire which violate streamliners' ideals but make a distinctive car. Prices ($1,477 to $2,864) include pushbutton door latches, automatic windows and V12 120-h.p. engines...
Plymouth has 13 body styles, has added a "getaway" gear between first and second to give four speeds forward. This year it has a new safety tire rim, one-piece hood and horsepower up to 87. Prices...
When the pair first met in 1912. Frank Seiberling was the head of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., which he had founded; Edgar Davis was managing director of U. S. Rubber Co.'s vast Sumatra plantation. They found they had a common dream: enough U. S.-owned plantations to smash the Dutch-British rubber monopoly. Before they could do much about it, Rubberman Davis left U. S. Rubber Co. with a $2,000,000 fortune, which he proceeded to give away and to pour down a series of dry holes in the oil country around Luling...