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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December i, 1906. 



NEWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



GENERAL RUBBER CO. — ELECTION. 



AT a recent meeting of directors of the General Rubber 

 Co. (New York) the office of president, vacant since 

 the resignation of Mr. William M. Ivins, was filled, 

 and other oflicers elected, as follows : 



President — Samukl P. Coi,T. 



Vice President — Lksthr Lel.xnd. 



Treasurer — John J. \V.\TSON', Jr. 



Assistant Treasurer— \. H. Brown. 



Secretary — S.\MfKL Xorris. 



Assistant Secretary — John D. C.\rherry. 



General Manager — Willi.^m F. Bass. 



The directors are Messrs. Colt, Leland, and Watson, be- 

 sides the following : James Iv. Ford, R. C. Benedict, Walter 

 S. Ballon. James Deshler, Anthony N. Brady, and Charles 

 H. Dale. 



An executive committee has been chosen, consisting of 

 Samuel P. Colt, Lester Leland, Charles H. Dale, and John 

 J. Watson, Jr. The General Rubber Co. was organized pri- 

 marily for the purpose of purchasing the crude rubber used 

 by the United States Rubber Co. It is not unlikely that 

 from this time on the scope of the companj' will be even 

 larger than it has been thus far, in that the management 

 proposes also to sell crude r\ibber to the outside trade as well 

 as to buy it for the use of the United States Rubber Co., the 

 Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co., and their owned and con- 

 trolled companies. 



THIS year's automobile SHOWS. 



The automobile show to be held by the Automobile Club 

 of America at the Grand Central Palace, New York, will 

 open on Saturday evening, December i, and close on the 

 evening of December 8. The show at Madison Square Gar- 

 den, under the auspices of the Association of Licensed Auto- 

 mobile Manufacturers, will be held January 12 to 19. The 

 Chicago show will be held, as last year, in the Coliseum and 

 First Regiment armory, on February 2-9. The great English 

 automobile shows have been held alreadj-, the Olynipia on 

 November 15-24, and the Stanley closing on December i. 

 The Paris .show was held November 7-23. 



THE maple leaf rubber CO. 

 Thk purchase was mentioned in the last issue of this Jour- 

 nal of The Maple Leaf Rubber Co., Limited, by the Canadian 

 Consolidated Rubber Co., of Montreal. The Maple Leaf 

 company, originally under another name, were the first to 

 make rubber footwear in the province of Ontario. They re 

 moved to Port Dalhousie in iSgi, occupying a new factory, 

 which was burned on January 2, 1899. The factory was 

 replaced by a new and larger plant, complete and well 

 arranged for the company's specialty, the manufacture of 

 rubber boots and shoes. The business of the couipan3^ has 

 been done under the title The Maple Leaf Rubber Co., Lim- 

 ited, since March, 1900, though their "Maple Leaf" trade 

 mark had already become widely known in the Dominion 

 trade. Previously the concern had been the Toronto Rubber 

 Shoe Manufacturing Co. The capital of the company was 

 increased in September, 1901, from $250,000 to $350,000. 

 The latter was the price paid bj- the Canadian Consolidated 

 Rubber Co., and the purchase is reported to have been a 

 cash transaction. 



HARTFORD RUBBER TIRE FEATURES. 

 The Hartford Rubber Works Co. have brought out a new 

 non skid feature for pneumatic tires. It consists in embed- 

 ding in the tread of a flat tread tire of ordinarj- pattern four 

 parallel endless coils of helical spring. Being incorporated 

 into the material of the tire during the manufacture, the por- 

 tion of each coil which lies beneath the surface of the tread 

 is a fi.xture, the vulcanizing process firmly attaching the 

 rubber to it. In the event of the outer loops wearing down, 

 there will still remain a series of inverted staples fi.xed in 

 the tread. It is this wearing away that is looked for, the 

 use of the spring being in a way, merely a convenient 

 method of setting the staples into the tread. Their use 

 saves the wear on the rubber in somewhat the same manner 

 that nails in a boot save the sole and heel leather, as well as 

 adding to the firmness of the footing. = = The Hartford peo- 

 ple have been preaching the gospel of larger tires for a 

 year or more, in the belief that much unnecessary tire trou- 

 ble is due to the use of tires too small for the duty demanded 

 of them. They are now making tires of large size which are 

 adaptable to standard rims of smaller size — for example, 5 

 inch tires are supplied for 4;^ inch rims. The result is that 

 the owner of a motor car, desiring to adopt larger tires ma}- 

 do so without changing or altering the rims. = ^The anti 

 skid feature above mentioned is applicable also to solid 

 vehicle tires. Besides, the Hartford company are making 

 solid tires with sets of the helical springs in the base, in- 

 stead of wire or fabric mesh, with the idea that the wires 

 cling to a larger amount of the rubber than any fabric 

 could do, and that the tire is thus made stronger. Their 

 solid tires are made in single form for loads up to 10,000 

 pounds ; for heavier loads the twin form is recommended. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



In a letter to The Indi.\ Rubber World an American 

 rubber manufacturer vi-rites : "We are not large users of 

 foreign scrap. However, there are some grades that are get- 

 ting quite scarce in this country, and we may be obliged to 

 bury our prejudice." 



= The B. & R. Rubber Co. (North Brookfield, Mass.) have 

 a night force at work, to facilitate getting their factory- in 

 readiness for operation. 



^That cushion tires for carriages have not gone out of 

 fashion was proved by the excellent exhibit made by the 

 Stein Double Cushion Tire Co. (Akron, Ohio) at the National 

 Carriage Builders' Association show at Atlanta. 



= Rubber tire exhibits were made at the National Carriage 

 Builders' .\ssociation at Atlanta, on October 23-25. by a 

 larger number of manufacturers than in any previous 3'ear. 

 The convention was the largest 3-et held, and the industry 

 was reported to be in a flourishing condition. Next year's 

 convention will be held in New York. 



= Major E. W. Harral, of the Fairfield Rubber Co., became 

 ill just before the recent exhibition connected with the meet- 

 ing of the Carriage Builders' National Association at At- 

 lanta, and thus a familiar figure at this annual gathering 

 was missing, as was his company's exhibit of carriage cloth. 

 Major Harral, fortunately, is recovering. 



