July i, 1907.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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News of the American Rubber Trade. 



CHANGES OF OWNERS AT RUTHERFORD. 



THE plant of the Electric Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Ruther- 

 ford, New Jersey) was advertised by the receivers to be 

 oflfered at public sale on June 7. They received an ofTcr 

 for the property at an earlier date, however, which was accepted 

 by the receivers under the direction of the court, the offer being 

 from F. G. Mott, Jr. (general manager), and others identified with 

 the Trident Tire Co., No. 1593 Broadway, New York. Pos- 

 session was taken at once, and the manufacture begun of the 

 "Trident," a new puncture proof tire. Title to the Rutherford 

 plant, however, has been taken by a new corporation. The Electric 

 Rubber Co., with $1,000,000 capital authorized, articles of which 

 were filed under the New Jersey law May 24, 1907, by Walter 

 H. Bond, No. 32 Broadway, New York ; William J. Conkling, 

 Orange, New Jersey ; and Oscar C. Miller, No. 800 Broad street, 

 Newark, N. J. This company is understood to embrace interests 

 identical with those of the purchasers of the Rutherford plant. 



The former owners of the plant were incorporated in Novem- 

 ber, 1903, as the Electric Rubber Manufacturing Co., and engaged 

 in the manufacture of tires, which was suspended at the end of 

 1906, when the company became embarrassed and receivers were 

 appointed. 



THE MICHELIN AMERICAN FACTORY. 



The Michelin Tire Co. — the American corporation with 

 $3,000,000 capital authorized and formed under the laws of New 

 Jersey March 12, 1907, to operate a branch factory of Michelin 

 et Cie. (Clermont-Ferrand, France) — have under construction at 

 Milltown, New Jersey, buildings and equipment designed for an 

 output of 1500 motor tires daily, under the same formulas and 

 processes as are used by the parent company. They advise The 

 India Rubber World: "Our buildings and machinery are modern 

 in every respect, no expense being spared to make this the most 

 complete rubber mill in the world. We shall soon be ready to 

 present to the trade Michelin tires made in America." The 

 president of the American company is Monsieur Edouard 

 Michelin, the head of Michelin et Cie. in France, and the vice- 

 president, Monsieur A. Fountaine, formerly at Clermont-Ferrand, 

 is in charge of the new factory. 



The Michelin Tire Co. have acquired the factory of the Inter- 

 national Automobile and Vehicle Tire Co., incorporated in New 

 Jersey April 15, 1899. The factory was purchased by the latter 

 from the United States Rubber Co., having been that long 

 operated under the name Meyer Rubber Co. The transfer of this 

 property will not be made before the end of summer, but mean- 

 while the Michelin people are erecting additional buildings. 



MR. PAINE GOES TO LONDON. 



The United States Rubber Co. announced, under date of June 

 13, that in view of the growth of the company's foreign business, 

 ]\Ir. Eben H. Paine will be located in London as advisory 

 director of the United States Rubber Co., Limited, their English 

 corporation, and have a general supervision of their entire 

 foreign trade. Mr. Paine purposes leaving New York on July 3 

 to undertake the duties of his new post. Mr. Paine has been con- 

 nected with the sales department of the United States Rubber 

 Co. since its organization, 15 years ago, but years before that 

 he was interested in the sale of rubber goods. His career in the 

 rubber trade began in connection with the Boston firm of Clapp, 

 Evans & Co., about 35 years ago. In 1877, when the American 

 Rubber Co. was organized by Robert D. Evans, Mr. Paine 

 joined its forces, becoming in the end the general selling agent. 

 He held this position when the United States Rubber Co. came 

 into existence, involving the merger of the American Rubber 

 Co., with Mr. Evans, president of the consolidated companies. 



Mr. Paine then femoved from Boston to New York, becoming 

 identified with the sales branch of the new and larger corpora- 

 tion. By the resignation of the late Charles L. Johnson as 

 director of sales of the United States Rubber Co., in May, 1897, 

 the position of chief selling agent fell to Mr. Paine, already in 

 charge of the New York selling agency, and this position he has 

 continued to fill up to this time. 



From its beginning it has been a settled policy of the United 

 States Rubber Co. to cultivate an export trade along systematic 

 lines, in pursuance of which an European depot was established 

 several years ago in London, and developed finally into a separate 

 public company, the United States Rubber Co., Limited, regis- 

 tered in London February 16, 1905. It is in connection with this 

 company that Mr. Paine transfers the scene of his activity in 

 the trade across the Atlantic, where he has already visited the 

 agencies of his company several times in the past. In this 

 connection it may be mentioned that since the merger with the 

 United States Rubber Co. of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing 

 Co., the sale of the mechanical and kindred rubber goods 

 products of the latter has been carried on under the style The 

 Anglo-American Rubber Co., on Holborn viaduct, London, and 

 presumably Mr. Paine will be expected to devote part of his 

 energies to the latter enterprise. 



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The position vacated by ^^r. Paine's transfer has been filled by 

 the appointment of Mr. Edward R. Rice as manager of sales 

 in charge of all sales, including the branch store department, 

 which has been in Mr. Rice's hands hitherto. All selling depart- 

 ments will be under the direction of a committee on sales com- 

 posed of Homer E. Sawyer, chairman ; Lester Leland, Walter S. 

 Ballou, John J. Watson, Jr., Henry B. Hubbard, secretary. 



NEW TIRE TUBE FACTORY. 



The Victor Auto Tire Repair Co. (Passaic, New Jersey) will 

 be operated hereafter under the name The Victor Auto Tire and 

 Tube Co., the change in title making their entrance into the 

 manufacture of inner tubes. For this purpose they have acquired 

 premises in Waterhouse's Mills. The company also manufacture 

 repair stock and continue to repair and retread pneumatic tires. 

 The company were incorporated October 18, 1906. James Mait- 

 land is manager and Samuel W. Hall secretary. 



AN AMERICAN BRANCH OF CLAUDIUS ASH. 



A NEW factory for the production of dental rubbers has been 

 established, being a branch of the important English corpora- 

 tion, Claudius Ash, Sons & Co. (1905), Limited. The American 

 office is at No. 30 East Fourteenth street. New York, and the 

 factory at Irvington (near Newark), New Jersey. The original 

 business of Claudius Ash & Sons, manufacturers of dental ma- 

 terials, was formed in 1825. It expanded in time into two busi- 

 nesses, one manufacturing and one mercantile, which in 1905 were 

 combined in one public company, capitalized at ii,ooo,ooo 

 [=$4,866,500]. At that time the profits for the three years pre- 

 ceding were reported to have averaged £71,581 [$348,349] per 

 annum, covering the manufacture and sale not only of dental 

 rubbers, but of dental materials of all kinds. The American 

 branch factory has been inaugurated under the supervision of 

 the managing director in charge of the English factory. 



A RUBBER STORE AT SPOKANE. 



The Washington Rubber Co., Inc., are building a modern 

 structure containing about 25,000 feet of floor space to accommo- 

 date a stock of merchandise which they have arranged to carry 

 at No. 708 Main avenue, Spokane, Washington. The company 

 are selling agents for the Pacific Coast Rubber Co. and the 



