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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February i, 1907. 



The Ajax-Grieb detachable flange is slotted underneath, as 

 is also the flat rim. An easily detached split locking ring fills 

 these corresponding slots on the tongue and double groove prin- 

 ciple. 



The show was the seventh held in the Madison Square Gar- 

 den, and the second held under the auspices of the Association 

 of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers. There were 249 exhibits, 

 45 of motor cars and 204 of accessories. Of the cars shown, 216 

 were pleasure vehicles and 22 for commercial use. Twelve of 

 the makes of cars shown were foreign. The various foreign tires 

 now on the American market were also represented. 



A NEW AMERICAN MICHELIN AGENCY. 



Emii.e L.^mberj.\ck, of Paris, who for several years has been 

 the sole export agent of the tire product of Michelin et Cie 

 (Clermont-Ferrand), has formed a new company and taken over 

 the rights, effects, and good will of the Michelin Products Sell- 

 ing Co., Inc. (Nos. 31-33 Thirty-first street. New York), hitherto 

 the exclusive representatives of the Messrs. Michelin in America. 

 The new company will be known as E. Lamberjack & Co., Inc., 

 and will occupy the offices and salesrooms at the location named 

 above. Under the new arrangement Michelin et Cie will deal 

 directly with their patrons in America, and it is intimated that 

 a lower scale of prices on their tires will go into effect. The 

 Lamberjack company is incorporated under the laws of New 

 York, with $10,000 capital. The incorporators are: J. E. Lam- 

 berjack, Paul La Croi.x, and M. G. Bernin. The same interests, 

 under the name Franco-.^merican Auto and Supply Co., at 

 Chicago, will be distributors of Michelin products in the central 

 and western states. 



NEW TIEE DEPOT IN NEW HAVEN. 



The Colonial Rubber and Lumber Co. has been incorporated 

 at New Haven, Connecticut, with $25,000 capital authorized. 

 George H. Rynedance is president. Dr. William F. Verdi, vice 

 president, and George Bryning, secretary. The company controls 

 the New England representation of the Pennsylvania Rubber 

 Co. (Jeannette, Pa.), and will build up a wholesale and retail 

 business in rubber tires and mechanical rubber goods, at Nos. 

 494-496 State street. The company succeeds the Springfield Rub- 

 ber Tire Co. and the New England Tire and Rubber Co., both 

 of New Haven. The company will also do a wholesale lumber 

 business, making a specialty of mahogany. 



■■INNEH SHOE" TIRES. 



The Inner Shoe Tire Co. (Grand Rapids, Michigan) are pro- 

 ducing an inner shoe made of a specially thin 12 ply laminated 



fiber, which is said to 

 have great strength, cou- 

 Iiled with pliability. This 

 fiber is formed by ma- 

 chinery into full smooth 

 tire shape with canvas 

 overlaps, which latter 

 are designed to prevent 

 or hold rim cuts. It is 

 made self-cementing by 

 having its outer surface 

 given a coat of special 

 cement, which, when the inner shoe is in use, first softens and 

 then sets, thus making the lining a part of the tire. The inner 

 shoe is inserted just as an inner tube would be. These new 

 shoes are made in sizes to fit any ordinary automobile tire. The 

 same company also makes fiber treads to go inside the tires, and 

 repairs patches for both inner and outer application. 



EEtTNION OF THE OLD DUNLOP TIRE STAFF. 



The annual reunion of the men who formerly composed the 

 staff of the American Dunlop Tire Co. occurred this year at the 



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Hotel Astor, in New York, on January 17, which was during the 

 automobile show week. The Dunlop company in time became 

 merged with the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co., and the 

 former staff became considerably scattered. Among those present 

 were Kirk Brown, now general manager of the Yale and Towne 

 Manufacturing Co. ; Alexander O. Holroyd, superintendent of the 

 Dunlop tire department of the Hartford Rubber Works Co.; A. 

 E. Osterlob, Chicago manager of the Goodyear Rubber Co.; Wil- 

 liam Perratt, Detroit manager of the Diamond Rubber Co. ; 

 Robert La Porte, Pennsylvania representative of the Hartford 

 Rubber Works Co, ; William Fetler, Philadelphia representative 

 of the Goodyear Rubber Co. ; and W. Heath Kirkpatrick, sales 

 manager of the Peerless Motor Car Co. 



AMERICAN TIRE NOTES. 



■ I "HE Harburg Tire Co. (New York) are making the very 

 •*• strong claim that their rubber absolutely cannot separate 

 from the canvas and they stand ready to prove it — at least in 

 very many cases. These tires are made by the great Harburg- 

 Wien company, with factories at Harburg, Germany, and Vienna, 

 Austria. 



The Fisk Rubber Co. (Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts) make 

 a good point in describing their tire — that the air cushion is en- 

 tirely above the rim, which makes materially for comfort. 



An automatic tire inflator that fills any tire in two minutes' 

 time is Maxfields's, marketed by Brown Brothers, Limited (Lon- 

 don). It can be fixed to any car and consists of only two parts, 

 an air compressor and an air chamber, the compressor being 

 driven by friction from the flywheel or clutch of the motor. 



P£NNSVLV.\NI-\ RriiBER Co.'s REMOVABLE RiM. 



Francis R. Sherwood. M. D., of Chicago, writes that he has 

 run, on an 1800 pound runabout, 30,000 miles on Swinehart tires. 

 He claims that his machine is in good order and so is he. 



Motz, of Akron, is out with a new cushion tire for which 

 he claims much greater resiliency, increased traction, a decrease 

 in liability of skidding, and practically a better tire for sandy 

 roads than anything yet marketed. 



Aster & Co. (New York), who handle the "L'EIectric" clincher 

 tire, of French make, have a nonskid tread known as the Adams, 

 in which the rivets, when the tire is not in use, are flush with 

 the base of the tread. The tread itself, however, is of specially 

 soft vulcanized rubber, which crowds out of the way, allows the 

 studs to grip the roads, and thus prevents slipping. 



A new tire protector has been brought out by the Standard 

 Tire Protector Co. (Peoria, Illinois). 



