Latex in Malaysia

That most ubiquitous substance, rubber, drips white from trees in Malaysia before it is vulcanized and moulded ready to roar in our streets and along our motorways.

After glass, and possibly steel and plastic, rubber is our most used and useful material. It turns up in kitchens in the form of rubber gloves, and of course, on cars, buses and motorcycles, on vans and lorries and bicycles in the form of inner tubes and tyres.

Of the more unusual uses, I mention the huge lorry wheel inner tubes reutilized as water carrying vessels slung over the tired backs of donkeys above the town of Kassala in the Eastern Province of Sudan, and the flip-flops worn by their drivers, and having a similar pedigree.
Robert L. Fielding