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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April i, 1909. 



NEWS OF THE TIRE TRADE. 



THERE has been a final hearing in the long pending suit of 

 The Single Tube Bicycle and Automobile Tire Co. v. Con- 

 tinental Rubber Works (Erie, Pennsylvania), in the United 

 States circuit court for the western district of Pennsylvania. 

 The suit is for alleged infringement of the Tillinghast patents 

 on single tube tires for bicycles. Decision is expected within a 

 few weeks. 



James L. Gibney & Brother (Philadelphia), dealers in tires 

 and distributing agents for "Continental" ready-flated and de- 

 mountable rims have, in view of their steadily increasing busi- 

 ness, leased for a long term the larger premises, Nos. 215-217 

 North Broad street, which they are occupying from April i. 



Cryder & Co., No. 585 Park avenue, New York, have been 

 appointed sole agents in the United States for the Kempshall non 

 skid tires, manufactured in England. These tires have been 

 illustrated in The India Rubber World. 



G & J Tire Co. (Indianapolis, Indiana) have appointed as 

 manager of their Detroit branch Mr. Ralph P. Dawse, to succeed 

 Charles A. Monson, who is going into the lamp trade. 



John E. Thropp's Sons Co. (Trenton, New Jersey) announce 

 that they are exclusive licensees under the Peter E. Thropp 

 patent No. 822,561, dated June 5, 1906, for the manufacture of 

 molds for curing tires in open steam. Five rubber companies 

 have already taken licenses for the manufacture of tires by the 

 use of these molds, and other companies may obtain licenses 

 under like conditions. It is intimated that infringers of the 

 patent referred to will be prosecuted. 



A petition in bankruptcy has been filed against Pneu L'Electric 

 Co., dealers in automobile tires, at No. 238 West One Hundred 

 and Eighth street. New York, and Charles L. Cohn has been 

 appointed receiver. The company was incorporated under the 



laws of New York July 26, 1907, with an authorized capital of 

 $200,000. 



A SUIT WON BY THE GOVERNMENT. 



A FURTHER decision has been rendered in the federal courts 

 bearing upon the rate at which automobile tires should be duti- 

 able when imported into United States in connection with, but 

 not mounted upon, automobiles. The Auto Import Co. and other 

 importers at New York protested two years ago against the 

 payment of duty_ on certain automobiles as an entirety at 45 per 

 cent, ad valorem, on the ground that the tires, not being mounted, 

 should be admitted as manufactures of india-rubber, on which the 

 rate is only 30 per cent. The collector at New York was upheld 

 by the board of United States general appraisers whose decision 

 the Auto Import Co. and Archer & Co. asked to have reviewed 

 by the United States circuit court for the southern district of 

 New York. Here the decision was adverse to the government. 

 The matter was carried next to the United States circuit court of 

 appeals, second circuit, where a decision has been rendered, 

 reversing that of the circuit court and sustaining the collector of 

 customs and the general appraisers. The gist of the latest deci- 

 sion is : When an incomplete automobile car and the four tires 

 necessary to put it in running order are imported together, in 

 the same vessel, by the same importer, and entered at the same 

 time, the parts are dutiable as a whole, though before the ma- 

 chine is ever used other tires may be substituted. [See The India 

 Rubber World May i, 1907 — page 244; August I, 1908 — page 375.] 

 The latest decision is dissented from by one of the judges, Noyes, 

 who says : "I cannot agree that rubber tireassthould be assessed 

 as manufactures of metal merely because they are imported in a 

 crate with an automobile upon the wheels of which they never 

 have been, and it is wholly problematical whether they ever will 

 be, placed." 



Basket Weave Motorcycle Clincher Tire. 



fMorgan & Wright, Detroit, Michigan.] 



SwiNEHART Bridge Tire. 



[Bridges in the sides of the tire, in the form of 

 cylinders, which flatten out in use, take up shocks 

 and stand a great amount of abuse without cutting 

 or tearing th» tire proper. _ Swinehart Clincher Tire 

 and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio.] 



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MoTZ Motor Buggy Tire. 



[Clincher type. Held in rim by steel ^ 

 cross bars placed slantwise in the base of * 

 the tire, the ends of the bars extending 

 under the fianges of the rim. Motz 

 Clincher Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, 

 Ohio.] 



Firestone Demountable Rim. 



[For pneumatic tires — clincher or quick 

 detachable. Regular inner tubes used. 

 Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, 

 Ohio.] 



Corrugated Motorcycle Tire. 



[G & J Tire Co., Indianapolis, 

 Indiana. ] 



Side Wire Tire Demountable Rim. 



[For use on commercial motor vehicles. 

 Shown for the first time this season. Fire- 

 stone Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio.] 



