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Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company (Abir)

Company that held a rubber concession in the Lopori and Maringa basins of the Congo Free State.

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Congo Free State Concession to gather rubber on the State domain Primary record 1
The Commission of Inquiry names Abir among the principal concession companies and says the State often took half the stock of such companies; it gives no share for Abir alone.

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The Congo: a report of the Commission of Enquiry appointed by the Congo Free State government (English translation, 1906), Commission of Enquiry of the Congo Free State, translated by G. P. Putnam's Sons (Project Gutenberg), 30 Oct 1905. Primary record
A concession means the right granted in return for a money consideration to commercial companies that permits them to gather for their sole profit certain products of the State Domain.
On December 1st, it left for Lulonga and Abir, sailed up the Lulonga river and its tributaries the Lopori and the Mirangi.
Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo (Africa No. 1, 1904), with the Congo State's note of 17 September 1903 and its annexes, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Accounts and Papers 1904 (Internet Archive copy), Feb 1904. Primary record
I have no means of ascertaining the number of this class of armed men employed by the A.B.I.R. Company, but I saw many of them when up the Lopori River

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