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THE retreading industry dealt with 1.200.000 tyres last year, or more than double the number treated 10 years ago, said Mr. John Belcher, M.P.. Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, at the Tyresoles European conference dinner held in Buxton last week. Every cover retreaded represented a saving in dollar expenditure on American raw materials and made a new tyre available for export.
Mr. Belcher referred to the value of the Tyresoles service during the war, telling how representatives of the organization accompanied transport almost to the battlefronts..
The need for harder work and greater production, even if it meant the sacrifice of the five-day week, was stressed by Sir Patrick Hamilton, chairman of Tyresoles, Ltd., who welcomed overseas concessionnaires from France, Belgium, Holland, Chile and Peru.
Major F. C. Palmer, managing director of Tyresoles (Overseas), Ltd., spoke of the start of the system 14 years ago and said that it had developed into the biggest retreading organization in Britain, and probably the world. Had it been a fully international Tyresoles conference, representatives of 20 countries might have been present.
Help of the Press in raising the reputation of the retreaded tyre was stressed by Mr. G. Bowden (Stowe and Bowden, Ltd.).
Among new products of the Tyresoles organization exhibited at the conference was the Corinthian retreading mould, which enables tyres to be brought up to standard, even should damage have occurred to the walls.