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 In Memoriam: Franz Clouth (1838 - 1910)
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Old Clouth firm  Logo

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Balloon Gondola

Cöln Beginning of 20 Century.

Franz Clouth

Bronze F. Clouth Bust

Clouth Book Nr.1

Diving Helmet Clouth

Clouth-Wappen 1923

Clouth Balloon XI

Rechtsanwalt J.P. Clouth

Ehefrau Audrey Clouth

Bryan, Oliver, Phillip

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Max Clouth

Clouth Balloon Sirius

 Kautschuk Golfball

Clouth Factory Front

Younger Franz Clouth

Eugen Clouth

Clouth Factory

Air Ship Advert

Clouth Money

Old Clouth Crest

Car tyres

Old Car

OLd Daimler

Excavator with conveyor belt

Clouth VIII Balloon

Wilhelm Clouth

Katharina Clouth

Caoutchouc Golfball

Draft of Clouth Memorial

Old Catholic Church Köln

Cable Tower

Clouth IX

Ticket for Clouth IX Drive

Clouth IX

Clouth Buch 2.Edition

old Franz Clouth

Balloon Gondola

Butzweilerhof Airport

Caoutchouc-Tree

Caoutchouc Sheets

Caoutchouc-Copy Mashine

Water-Regulator

old Land & See Logo

Land & See New logo

Franz Clouth

Richard Clouth

Industrieverein Altlogo

Conveyor Belt Hall

Gate 2 to Clouth Works

Atlantic Cable

von Podbielski Cable Layer

Sound Silencer "Clouth Ei"(Egg)

Printery Wilhelm Clouth

 

 

Electrical engineering of the 19th century and its operators


Like all nineteenth-century economists, Franz Cloud had to be a generalist with the building of his company, H. To know the various innovations of a technical nature as far as they could be useful in and with the construction of his company. The two important inventions, both from England, were the light bulb and the associated electricity, as well as the steam engines that came from the English mining industry. The Fraufabrikanten desperately needed light and drive power, so it was important for the entrepreneurs to have both understanding and knowledge On the practical application. Franz Clouth was not the only one.
Franz Clouth is lead as an electrical engineer in the British directory "Grace`s Guide"
Franz Clouth is an electrical engineer in the British directory "Grace`s
Guide"

http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/The_Engineer_1964_Jul-Dec:_Index

 

Steamers in the 19th century and Clouthhttp://www.albert-gieseler.de/dampf_de/tables/ort-ko0.shtml

 

Company history Clouth

Zeit /Time Ereignis /Events
10.09.1862 Firm Franz Clouth is founded by Franz Clouth for the distribution of rubber products, etc
1869 The company begins to process rubber in its own factory in Cöln (Cologne-Nippes) and to produce rubber products of all kinds.
1872 The former procurator Carl Vorberg as a participant joins the company, which becomes an open trading company and receives the addition "Rheinische Gummiwarenfabrik" (Rhinish Rubber Fabrication)
1890 Takeover of the engineer Otto Weiss and the cable manager Lukas from Siemens Brothers, London
1890 The company is setting up a cable factory on its premises for the production of insulated wires and cables of all kinds
1890 The company establishes a factory for the production of insulated wires and cables of all kinds. The employees are taken over by works of the same and similar kind
1890 The company Franz Clouth Rheinische Gummiwarenfabrik is setting up a cable factory in Cologne-Nippes (Cöln-Nippes).
14.09.1891 The pipeline is transferred to the electrical engineer Georg Zapf, who entered on 14 September 1891.
1892 Takeover of the engineer Georg Bartels from the Hannoverschen Cautchouc, Guttapercha and Telegraphenwerken and by Meistermüller from Siemens & Halske, Berlin
1893 Since 1893, the cable factory has been supplying the Reichstelegraphen administration of gutta-percha, fiber and telephone cables.
1893 Since 1893, the company has been supplying Guttapercha and fiber cable telegraph cables as well as telephone cables to the Reichstelegraphen-Administration, as well as the two southern German, Swiss, Belgian, Swedish and other foreign telegraph administrators.
1893 Franz Clouth is involved in the cable deliveries for the Reichs-Telegraphenverwaltung (Reichs Telegraph Administration)
1895 The knot braided cable from Franz Clouth is used as a city cable in Cologne.
1895 The Reichs-Telegraph administration generally introduces the fiber cable; Supplier Siemens & Halske, Felten & Guilleaume, Firm Franz Clouth.
1895 Fiber cables are generally introduced after a favorable failure of the tests, with the exception of Siemens & Halske, Felten & Guilleaume and Firm Franz Clouth are involved, and more and more companies are gradually being added. The design differs for the individual suppliers, instead of jute is taken cotton or even paper. However, a uniform wrapping of the conductor with fibers without airspace, impregnation, lead coat is maintained.
07.1895 Since 1895 fiber cables have been generally used by the Reichs Tegraph Administration; The first delivery contract was concluded in July with Siemens & Halske, Felten & Guilleaume and Franz Clouth.
1898 The cable division is growing in scope by the construction of cable manufacturing machines, covering an area of 20,000 square meters in 1898 and employing 600 workers.
11.05.1898 As the operation increases in scope, the cable factory is converted into a company under the company "Land- und Seekabelwerke" (Land & Sea Cable Works).
11.05.1898 The company no longer fits into the framework of the rubber company, its operation exceeds the company's capital. It is therefore addressed to the A.G. Land and sea cable works.
1899 Carl Vorberg steps out again.
1899 A separate wire drawing plant is planned for 1899. The company also builds all machines necessary for cable production for its own needs and for foreign cable companies.
1901 The remaining company is divided into a G. m. b. H. ( sort of Ltd.); Max Clouth shall act as a participant
1907 Supply of a steam engine by A. Borsig/Berlin
1910 Max Clouth becomes sole director after the death of his father, while the company remains the property of the widow and children of Franz Clouth.
22.04.1920 The G.m.b.h. Is converted into a stock corporation with effect from 1 January 1920 and a capital of 6.500.000 Marks
04.06.1920 Registered
1924-1925 The capital is converted to RM 1,060,000.00 according to the Goldmark balance sheet.
1925 The Felten & Guilleaume Carlswerk also takes over the capital of the Rheinische Gummiwarenfabrik A.-G. Franz Clouth, who continues her business.
1925 The capital is taken over by Felten & Guilleaume Carlswerk A.G., which combines its own rubber factory with the facilities of Franz Clouth.
07.07.1925 The Annual General Meeting on 7 July 1925 decided to increase the capital by RM 2,000,000.00.
1932 In the case of the transfer of Dr. Max Clouth to the Supervisory Board, the director of the land and sea cable works; C. Overhoff also takes over the commercial management of Clouth
15.06.1932 On 15 June 1932, the Director of Land and Sea Cable Works, Paul Schlag, was appointed to the technical management.
22.06.1932 Lt. Annual General Meeting of June 22, 1932: Reduction of capital in simplified form to RM 2,250,000.00 by transfer of 3250 ordinary shares to RM-200.00 and 160 preference shares to RM 1,000.00.
01.01.1937 C. Overhoff joins the Board of Felten & Guilleaume Carlswerk A.G.
23.10.1941 Lt. Resolution of the Supervisory Board of 23 October 1941 Capital allowance according to DAV of 12 June 1941 by 60% from Reichsmark 2.25 mill. to RM 3.6 mill. The amounts necessary for the implementation of the adjustment are derived from free reserves and from the profit contribution Reichsmark 749,000, 00, from write-ups of assets RM 165,000.00 and from other balance sheet items RM 571,000.00.
30.06.1943 Last Annual General Meeting until 1943/44

Produkte
Product since Remarks till Remarks  
Rubber goods 1892 [Adressb Elektr.-Branche (1892)] 1907 Positioning steam engine  
Gutta-percha 1892 [Adressb Elektr.-Branche (1892)] 1892 [Adressb Elektr.-Branch (1892)]  
Gutta-percha f. Electrical engineering purposes 1892 [Adressb Elektr.-Branche (1892)] 1892 [Adressb Elektr.-Branch (1892)]  
Gutta-percha f. Electrical engineering purposes 1892 [Adressb Elektr.-Branche (1892)] 1892 [Adressb Elektr.-Branch (1892)]  
Gutta-percha & Balata belts 1892 [Adressb Elektr.-Branche (1892)] 1892 [Adressb Elektr.-Branch (1892)]  
Insulated wire wires & Electric wire 1892 [Adressb Elektr.-Branche (1892)] 1892 [Adressb Elektr.-Branch (1892)]  
Telephone systems 1900 [Reichs-Adr.-Buch (1900) 2347] 1900 [Reichs-Adr.-Book (1900) 2347]  
Telegraph systems 1900 [Reichs-Adr.-Buch (1900) 2347] 1900 [Reichs-Adr.-Book (1900) 2347]  

 

 

     

                                  Clouth works                                                 English comparison Armstrong's Elwick Works/North of England

You can see how German industry was oriented not only from the product (product) to England, but also from the company building including the residential buildings for the employees in the background of the Elswicks plant (right picture). So one thought of the well-being of the staff and the maintenance of the workforce with a healthy workforce, which today is often ignored under the theme "Wild Capitalism". Because the light bulb and steamer (stevenson) came from this north-English area and "electrician" Franz Clouth and son Max were much in England, one will also be oriented to these English operating conditions as well as the participation in golf and golfball production (See golf!) As well as his registration as an electrician. To prove. http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/The_Engineer_1964_Jul-Dec:_Index 

 

Tire Productions

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Visions in the emerging tire technology for vehicles had already been already at that time (top: new proposals of the tire industry 2017)

Franz Clouth lived in the new age, when more and more horses than the actual means of transport, including the goods you were looking for, were in the background, especially since the hard wooden bikes with iron rests on hard cobblestone plaster were not only uncomfortable, but also harmful to transport goods impact. From a military point of view, it was also important to get means of transport for large-scale deployments that could quickly and effectively transport military equipment and weapons. For the entrepreneur, the car became more and more interesting in the form of the truck, in order to be able to transport its produced goods economically in quantities. The hard wooden bicycles were used for the first time in solid rubber tires, and later in air-filled (pneumatic) car tire covers such as inner tubes and bicycle tires. Clouth also presented in the First World War in collaboration with Carl Leverkus / Carl Duisberg / I.G. (Later Bayer-Leverkusen) produced hoses for artificial rubber tires, which had an average service life of 6,000-8,000 km. This was a performance for the time.

The carcass of the pneumatic tires consisted first of a fabric, which was then rubberized; The previous hard rubber tires were made of pure rubber material. At the time, inner tubes (inner tubes) have already been manufactured for use in wheel carcasses of transport means. The reason why Franz Clouth has not entered into the tire business as a major mainstay is not disclosed. Ultimately, however, he and his later successor Max Clouth must have convinced the risky beginnings of liability and the then still frequent tire problems to leave their fingers behind. In retrospect, probably a mistake. In the case of further tire production, however, it would have been urgently necessary to go to a considerable extent in a further extensive machine park in addition to specialist personnel and to order expensive winding machines in order to manufacture the carcass fabric. In addition, lack of space in the area of the company can also have been a reason.

 

Award for the production of pneumatic tires for bicycles and cars 1899 in Munich

 

Vehicles with solid rubber tires

 

With pneumatic tires

Daimler

Different Tire Types

            

Pneumatic Tires

 

     

Tire carcass with metal profile amplifiers

 plate       

Car dealer and repair shop of the old time

       

 

   

  

 

 

 

 

 

                           

                        Packaging of new tires

 

      

White wall tires have already been available                                     from the first production years                                 Horex-Motor Bike Peter Clouth (1947)

                 

The products were also on the right track, such as awards and awards. Why the tire technology was not one of the main fields of the Clouth productions, is not known, because not proven. At the latest, Franz and Max Clouth should have been awake with the recognizable disappearance of the military's interest in balloons and zeppelins due to the evolving aircraft technology and, above all, in connection with the air show 1910 in Cologne. Franz died in 1910. The development was already in a critical time zone, the first world war, the further explosive technology development after Tesla may also irritate the business view.

The Clouth brothers were also recognizable in Cöln (later Cologne) with mature vehicles

Eugen Clouth with son Peter and pneumatic tyres (see tire valves)

 

Eugen's Son Peter

still in german language, will be ranslated asap!:

Ist die Verwendung von Gummi/Kautschuk zukunftslos? No Use of rubber in the future possible?

Auch auf dem KfZ Sektor ändert sich viel, Kautschuk

bleibt gleichwohl der Klassiker / Rubber will stay to be a classic material

Neuartige Autoreifen 7Modern Tires

Reifenprognose /Tire prognosis

 

Eugen's Son "Peterchen", father of Jürgen

grown up in  London/England for more than 10 years with his Auntie and her twin sons Peter & John

klickhere

The very nice boys of the past!?

Previously, John, who was a language development supporter at Krupps for her youngest son in Essen, repeatedly on vacation. The families had close connex among themselves.

He also produced the handwritten report about his time, which shows that Krupps at that time also seem to have been car-mad. Report kindly given by Gillian Gibbon, his daughter. Alfred Krupp from Essen was as important for Germany as Lord Armstrong for England.

 

Cable production     

Franz Clouth had recognized the importance of cable production and cable laying within the framework of the economic confrontation with England and German colonialism. Clouth made the most successful deals with the laying of cables to the then German colonies. It is therefore no wonder that Franz Clouth supported and supported the colonial efforts of the German imperial empire. He was a co-founder or a member of the Supervisory Board of the German-Atlantic Telegraph Company, the Eastern European Telegraph Company, the German-Dutch Telegraph Company, the German-South American Telegraph Company and the Kabelwerke Aktiengesellschaft Felten & Guillaume (Riebenwerke) in St. Petersburg. With some of the German colonial travelers he was in a constant correspondence.

There were initially negotiations between the company Felten & Guillaume and Clouth for a mutual supply of cables. The negotiations failed. Felten and Guillaume, therefore, founded their own paint factory, and Clouth set up its own cable manufacture in 1890 under the name of "gutta-percha-insulated wires and cables." Shortly after the company was created, Clouth was commissioned by the Reichspost And Clonda, who was also a member of the company Siemens & Halske, was able to move cables all over Europe, as well as cables to the entire city of Kaiserslautern, and other cities with Clouth's underwater, telephone and tram cables were Amsterdam, Liège , Munich, Rotterdam, Berne and St. Petersburg, and finally the city of Cologne, where he was the head of the company's production, Dr.Ing. Hc Zapf, who successfully brought further developments into the company.

For the company, strategic and logistical problems arose very quickly with regard to the laying and transport of sea cables. The way to the sea was very far, the transports of the sometimes very large cable reels complicated, so that it felt, with the production to come close to the sea area. Clouth's own cable production was therefore completed on 11 May 1898. At the same time Land- und Seekabelwerke AG was founded in Nordenham. Franz Clouth was then there with 50% involved.Kölner and Berliner banks held the other 50%. Since no cable emptying ship was found in Germany, a corresponding ship was bought in England, and the "Podbielski" .Fels & Guillaumeh would first have to make the same decision, namely to build their own factory in Emden. In the course of negotiations by the Reichspost, which had a major interest in cable laying, both Felten & Guillaume and Franz Clouth both refrained from building companies in Emden and Nordenham. Instead, the founding of the Norddeutsche See cable works came into being. Felten and Guillaume were also involved with 50%. The company Land- und Seekabelwerke remained on the site in Nippes in the area of the business area of the company Clouth. For the sake of liability, there were two different legal persons. Within the scope of the production and the staff was often not to distinguish, who, who and what was was.

 

Sea cable patterns in general

later changed LOGO "Land & See" cable

German Sea Cable 1915

 

   

Land & See and company Franz Clouth on an area later Nordenham

General illustration of cable laying at this time and with what effort

Great Eastern Atlantic cable distributor

Atlantik-Cable Production

Atlantic cable reels before laying


  •    Guttapercha                                    Attention, PDF file comprehensive, book download is slightly delayed!

Clouth Balata Book at the moment just in German language

                  

                        English Edition 1903               Franz Clouth-Book about Rubber, pp. 1899                                  New Print 2017                                      

means in english:"Find out more

Without rubber nothing moves. Rubber is one of the most important keys to today's mobility. To ensure this, natural rubber is produced every day from over 2.6 billion cubic meters of natural rubber. In the short and medium term, 500 million rubber trees are missing. For a car tire, the annual rubber production of up to five trees is required. In China alone , the demand for rubber and wood in the next four years will double again"

 

Rubber tree plantation areas at the time of Franz Clouth

 

Atlantic Cables

Cable Layer from Clouth

1. Atlantic-Cable Layer 1845

American Cable  1st. Trans-Atlantic cable ca. 1845 Cross Section

Man wundert sich in technischer Hinsicht, dass eine solche Verlegung bei diesen Wettern ohne gefährliche Frachtverlagerung überhaaupt erfolgreich sein konnte, schließlich hatte das Trans-Atlantikkabel erhebliches und im Falle von Verlagerungen gefährliches Gewicht.

 

 


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  •  Sea Cable Constructions

 

  •  Laying Cables in general

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zu Clouth Werke Köln

Rechtsanwalt J.P. Clouth

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