January i, 1909.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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Tires at the New York Automoble Show. 



TJIK first of the two great automobile sliows scheduled for 

 New York this season is in full blast as The India RfiiiiER 

 WoKi.i) reaches its readers this month. Tlie formal opening 

 was on New Year's eve. With the exception of a few hours of 

 the evening of the last day of the year New Y'ork had no auto- 

 mobile show during 1908, the last preceding shows having been 

 held between October 24 and November 9, 1907. 



The show now in progress at the Grand Central Palace is 

 announced as the Ninth International Automobile Show, under 

 the management of tlie American Motor Car Manufacturers' As- 

 sociation, with the Importers' Automobile Salon and Motor and 

 Accessory Manufacturers. Hitherto these exhibitions have been 

 announced as under the auspices of the Automobile Club of 

 America, with the participation of the American Motor Car 

 Manufacturers' Association. The automobile shows this year 

 promise to be of even greater interest than in the past. Not 

 even the financial crisis of the past year served to lessen the activ- 

 ity of the automobile industry, and there are many indications 

 of steadily increasing interest on the part of the public in motor- 

 ing. Not only the thousands of car owners, but the greater 

 number of thousands who hope to be, seem attracted always by 

 an automobile show, besides which these are affairs coming in 

 New York to have a distinct character as "society" events. 



Not only are the leading American cars on exhibition at the 

 Grand Central Palace, but a number of foreign exhibits which 

 have come direct from the Paris Salon giving the show a more 

 truly international flavor than has been true of any predecessor. 

 The managers of the leading New York hotels have recognized 

 the importance of the automobile shows and several hotels have 



been decorated specially for the show week, which ends on 

 January 7. 



The tire exhibits are as numerous as ever, and while to the 

 casual observer there may appear an absence of novelties, a 

 closer view will reveal evidences of painstaking work on the 

 part of the tire people to improve their product, with a view to 

 increasing the comfort or the safety of motoring. There are new 

 tire fabrics, new non skidding features, ncw^ demounlaljle rims 

 and spare wheels, and so on. It has been a year of progress in 

 tire making as in the other details of the automobile industry, 

 and the tire exhibits may be expected to come in for a good 

 share of public interest. 



Some of the Tire Exhibits. 



The Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co. (Trenton, New Jersey) make a 

 complete exhibit of Ajax tires in all sizes. A feature of the 

 display is a new Ajax non skid type of novel construction, in- 

 suring great wearing quality. 



Continental Caoutchouc Co. (New Y'ork). The feature of 

 this exhibit is the demonstration of the advantages of carrying 

 Continental tires already inflated on spare rims. 



The Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Dayton, Ohio) 

 exhibit their Dayton airless clincher tire in a somewhat modified 

 form as compared with their 1908 product. This tire is cured 

 complete in one operation, so that the internal columns are in- 

 tegral with the cover, and therefore will not separate from the 

 cover ; nor will it crush down. 



The Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio). This exhibit in- 

 cludes the usual line of Diamond quick detachable and regular 

 clincher tires, and Diamond tires of the mechanically fastened 



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