In connexion with the international exhibition of rubber and other tropical products recently held in London it is pointed out that the production of plantation rubber has grown from about fowt tons in 1900 to 335,000 tons last year. It is hoped that as a result of the exhibition there will be a big extension in rubber roadways. An experiment is being made at Bow, which is being closely watched by engineers, Developments are taking place in rubber floor-covering which is being introduced into some of the big shops in Edinburgh. The absence of noise and cleanliness of rubber floors make them suitable for hospitals and other institutions. A firm has exhibited a new linoleum rubber, and it is stated that if it sueceeds on the market it will consume 30,000 tons of rubber a year. Rubber flooring for railway stations is suggested by way of reducing the noise and turmoil, and Sir est Birch has offered to make a present of a rubber floor to any railway company that would make the experiment.
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