Alternative materials, such as whalebone, cane, gutta-percha and even inflatable caoutchouc ( natural rubber ) were all used for hoops, although steel was the most popular.
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In 1853, Hutchinson Group was founded by Hiram Hutchinson though didn't start manufacturing bicycle tires until 1890, having first had eyes on the shoe market under the company Compagnie du Caoutchouc Souple.
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This included the Meccano metal construction kits, Continental Caoutchouc rubber balls, dolls prams by Heinrichmaier & Wunsch, Jutta dolls by Dressel, Emata slates, Hohner mouth organs, cars and figurines by Lehmann and Spears games.
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In Singapore she picked up a further 120 tons of tin in ingots, 59.8 tons of caoutchouc ( raw rubber ) in bales and 3.3 tons of quinine, and headed through the Indian Ocean, to the Atlantic Ocean.
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He was also involved in an ambitious plan for the transplanting of Brazilian rubber trees, claiming that he would " do for the india-rubber or caoutchouc-yielding trees what had already been done with such happy results for the cinchona trees ."
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He left for Vietnam in 1967, completely abandoning the novel and wrote'L'Homme aux sandales de caoutchouc', a play celebrating Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese struggle against imperialism, that was published, performed and translated into Arabic in 1970.
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By the time Phu Rieng Do broke up in 1930, the largest rubber plantations had formed the " Section autonome de l'Union des planteurs de Caoutchouc de l'Indochine " ( Indochina Rubber Planters'Union ) to further their interests.
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The much larger case sizes ( 44mm and up ) and caoutchouc rubber straps denoted the bulk of watch lines, focused on automotive racing ( ZMX Racer ), aviation ( ZMX Aviator ), diving ( ZMX Oceanaire ) and exploration ( ZMX Adventurer ).
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In 1887 the census suffrage system was replaced by one based on minimal wealth and education, which allowed an ever growing percentage of the male population to be given the right to vote; therefore this provision was at the time nicknamed the " caoutchouc-article ".
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His publications include the " Flore foresti�re de la Cochinchine " ( 1880-1907 ), an article " Sur les plantes ?caoutchouc de l'Indochine " ( " Revue des cultures coloniales ", 1903 ) and the section on Sapotaceae in the " Notes botaniques " ( 1890-1891 ).
