Advertisement from the Post Office Glasgow directory of 1926-1927 for R & J Dick's original balata belting, used to drive industrial machinery. Balata is the name of a tree, the juice of which was used as a substitute for gutta-percha.
Reference: Mitchell Library, DIR 1926-27
Reproduced with the permission of Glasgow City Council, Libraries Information and Learning
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