NEW PIPE WOOD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1941, Page 6

NEW PIPE WOOD

DISCOVERED IN ENGLAND. SMOKERS’ SIX MONTHS’ TEST. Six men sat in London for six months smoking pipes made from strange new woods. They were in search of a successor to the traditional bruyere, popularly known as briar. It grew in Algiers, and, after being conditioned in France, was shipped to England to be made into pipes. When the fortune of war cut off supplies, some new material had to be found, so the six smokers of London smoked steadily ahead, seeking the wood which seemed to their expert tongues to be worthy to take the place of briar. After trying out woods from many quarters of the globe, they have found in England one with all the qualities of briar, yet completely different in appearance. It is non-porous. It resists heat. It is tough and tasteless. A new method of curing the wood, known as the cherry cure, has been worked out in practical manufacturing detail, and already this “cherry cure” pipe is being exported to many parts of the world, and in particular to Canada, South Africa, and the United States; in fact, the limit of supply is set only by the allocation of essential materials such as vulcanite, which is imported and is also in big demand for war work.