19 OCTOBER 1934, Page 50

* * * • * INCREASED USES FOR RUBBER.

Nevertheless, Mr. Miller emphasized the point that it was in the broadening of the basis of consumption that the ultimate hope of the industry would lie, and he urged that there was room for wider recognition of the fact that the use of rubber for roadways had definitely paised the experi- mental stage, and he threw out the suggestion that Mr. Hore- Belisha's efforts to reduce noise might be carried much further by a general adoption of rubber in place of iron tyres; not only on the roads, but on the railway station and warehouse trolleys.