December i, 1905.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



95 



NEWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



DUNLOP TIRE AND RUBBER GOODS CO. 



THE illustration on this page gives a view ot the re- 

 cently completed plant of the Dunlop Tire and Rubber 

 Goods Co., which now is the style of the corporation 

 until lately known as The Dunlop Tire Co., Limited, 

 of Toronto, Canada. The smaller picture, in the upper left 

 corner, represents the office building, fronting on nooth ave- 

 nue. The factory extends back for a block to a siding off the 

 Grand Trunk railway's main line east. The premises comprise 

 one of the best factory sites in Toronto, and the land owned 

 by the company will permit of considerable additions to the 

 plant as the same may become necessary. There is no factory in 

 Toronto more thoroughly fireproof, the floors, ceilings, walls, 

 partitions, and stairways being of cement, reinforced by ex- 

 panded metal. The walls are of heavy construction, to take on 

 an additional story some day, and the power house is so located 

 as to leave the sides of the building free for additional wings. 

 The machinery equipment throughout is of the most modern 

 type. A sprinkler system has been installed, being fed from 

 the 40,000 gallon water tank shown in the illustration. On the 

 tank, over the name DUNLOP are painted a pair of gigantic 

 hands, in a position familiar to all who have seen the Dunlop 

 tire advertising. 



By way of a brief history, it may be mentioned that in 1894 

 The American Dunlop Tire Co.— itself an offshoot of the 

 Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co. of England — then of New York, 

 and afterwards of Belleville, N.J..and Hartford. Conn., opened 

 a branch at Toronto, for the purpose of working the Welch 

 bicycle tire patent and of supplying the Canadian trade with 

 Dunlop tires. The trade grew to large proportions and in 1S99 

 attracted the attention of a number of Canadian capitalists, 

 who eventually purchased the Canadian business and floated 

 the present company, styling it The Dunlop Tire Co., Limited. 

 Just at this time the then manager, Mr. Richard Garland, re- 

 signed, to market the Australian Dunlop Co., and the present 

 manager of the company, Mr. John Westren, was elected to 

 succeed him. The company has continued to prosper, having 

 branched out in a number of other lines — solid rubber carriage 

 tires, horseshoe pads, and other 

 mechanical goods, and now it is pre- 

 pared to supply nearly everything 

 in rubber. 



Last April ground was broken for 

 the new plant above described, and 

 by October i everything was in run- 

 ningshape. The company purchased 

 some 4 acres of land adjoining the 

 railway, erected an office and fac- 

 tory building 250 X 50 feet, with 

 separate compounding room, out- 

 side vulcanizing rooms and large 

 outbuilding for its carriage depart- 

 ment, spreader room, etc. These 

 latter buildings are 1 50 X 30 feet. 

 The company have selling branches 

 at Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver, 

 and St. John, and maintain a store 

 in the business center of Toronto. 

 They control rights under the Dun- 

 lop- Welch and " Clincher " tire pat- 



ents—which have not expired on this side of the Atlantic — and 

 the Doughty tire vulcanizing patents, and work under license 

 the Firestone sidewire tire and the Ludington continuous tire 

 process patents. 



NEW JOBBING HOUSE AT CLEVELAND. 

 The Forest City Rubber Co. (Cleveland, Ohio), the incorpo- 

 ration of which was noted in these pages last month, is com- 

 posed principally of Messrs. William E. Crofut (president and 

 treasurer) and John C. Poore (vice president and secretary;. 

 The former was connected with the Ohio Rubber Co. (Cleve- 

 land) for some time as treasurer and the latter for a number 

 of years was leading traveling salesman for that company. Feel- 

 ing that a field existed for a new company, and having a close 

 personal acquaintance with the trade and a knowledge of its 

 requirements, the gentlemen named have undertaken to carry on 

 a jobbing business in a full line of mechanical rubber goodsand 

 such allied lines as automobile tires, interlocking tiling, and the 

 like. They will carry the mechanical rubber goods line of the 

 Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Co. and also the leather belt- 

 ing of the Jewell Belting Co. The new house is favorably lo- 

 cated at No. 22 South Water street, Cleveland. 

 A GROWING TRENTON FACTORY. 

 Grieb Rubber Co. (Philadelphia) are engaged in increasing 

 the equipment of their well organized factory at Trenton, New 

 Jersey, the volume of production at which has been larger dur- 

 ing the current year than in any other. They are preparing to 

 add 4 presses to their plants, which will increase the number to 

 18, and have recently added a Birmingham calender of the lat- 

 est pattern. The company are making, in addition to their well 

 known specialties in heels, soles, and sheet soling, a varied line 

 of products, such as hoof pads, bottle washers, gun recoil pads, 

 massage machine rubbers, handles for tennis, ricket and golf 

 clubs, and many other articles. 



ARBITRATION OF BUSINESS DISPUTES. 



The New York Credit Men's Association, the excellent work 

 of which has been referred to many times in The India Rub- 

 ber World, has instituted an " arbitration bureau," to which 

 its members are invited to refer for determination, disputes be. 





PLANT OF THE DUNLOP TIRE AND RUBBER GOODS CO. 



