TECHNOLOGICAL HIsTORY Rubber technology is a vast and complicated subject, but fortunately only a few aspects of it now appear to be relevant to the present inquiry. Most of the rubber industry is concerned with the production of tyres. Barron (1947), to whose book the present authors are indebted for much of the technological history in this paper, states:. about 80 per cent. of all rubber is used in the motor industry, mainly for tyres ... A large proportion 39 copyright.
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