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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1, 1911. 



UNITED STATES TI&E CO.'S SELLING ORGANIZATION. 

 To systematize and facilitate their bii.siness, tlie Unitcil States 

 Tire Company, formed to handle the output of the Continental, 

 the G & J, Hartford and Morgan & Wright concerns, has 

 recently reorganized its sales force, at the head of which has 

 been placed J. D. Anderson, formerly general manager of the 

 Hartford Rubber Works Co., as sales manager. The country 

 has been divided into three sections, for the better control of 

 selling operations; The Eastern Division with head offices in 

 New York, will be managed by O. S. Tweedy, formerly sales 

 manager of the Continental Caoutchouc Co. ; the head office of 

 the Central Division, with A. I. Philp, formerly vice-president 

 and sales manager for Morgan & Wright at its head, will be in 

 Chicago, and at San Francisco, under the management of Joseph 

 Weston, former secretary of Morgan & Wright, will be the 

 main offices of the Western District. A recent order for 50,000 

 tires, from the United States Motor Company, for the equip- 

 ment of Columbia, Maxwell, Brush and Stoddard-Dayton cars, 

 was a record order for the company's sales department. 



DIAMOND RUBBER CO.'S EXPANSION. 



The Diamond Rubber Co., Akron, O., have opened a branch 

 at San Diego, Cal., to enable them the better to take care of 

 their rapidly increasing business in the extreme southern por- 

 tion of that State. The new branch is located at No. 1260 

 Fourth street and W. A. Tondro is in charge. The company has 

 also opened a new branch at Salt Lake City, Utah, of which 

 E. L. Hiteman is manager. At Fresno, Cal., in the Masonic Tem- 

 ple building, K and Merced streets, a Diamond Rubber Com- 

 pany office has been opened and arrangements have been made to 

 open new branches in Oakland and Sacramento, Cal., and Spo- 

 kane, Wash. This will make fifty-four direct Diamond Rubber 

 Co. offices distributed throughout Nortli America. 



OXFORD RUBBER COMPANY. 



Organized to continue the business formerly carried on under 

 the same title, by a co-partnership, the Oxford Rubber Com- 

 pany, Cambridge, Mass., occupy five buildings on Main street, 

 running through to State street, in that city, the aggregate floor 

 space being 25,000 feet. Three of the buildings are equipped for 

 proofing light and heavy materials, and in one, a four-story 

 structure, they manufacture rubber clothing, to which they pro- 

 pose to add the productiton of proofed cloth for the cutting up 

 trade. The officers of the company, which is doing a good 

 volume of business, are as follows: Isaac MacPherson, presi- 

 dent ; George B. Robeson, vice-president and secretary, and 

 Warren MacPherson, treasurer. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Warren M. Salisbury, head of the firm of W. H. Salisbury 

 & Co., Chicago, dealers in rubber goods, has built and will occupy 

 next month, a beautiful villa on the shores of Ononta Lake, 

 near Pittsficld, Mass. It follows the old English style of Robert 

 .-Xdani, and will be named Tor Court. 



William A. Johnstone, of the Rubber Products Co., has 

 presented the "Augusta" apartments, on Scoville avenue, Cleve- 

 land, to the Salvation Army as a house for working girls, to be 

 opened by May 1. The buildings are valued at $47,000. 



Frank E. Blanchard has been appointed assistant sales man- 

 ager of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., and will make his 

 headquarters at the factory, in Akron, Ohio. Mr. Blanchard 

 leaves The Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing Co., of which 

 he has been general manager for 16 years, previously having 

 had charge of their rubber tire trade. 



A. A. Cushman, formerly superintendent of the National India 

 Rubber Company, Bristol, R. I., is no longer connected with that 

 corporation. 



"The Rubber Country of the Amazon," by Henry C. Pearson, 

 is an interesting story of india-rubber, the people who produce it 

 and the country where most of it is produced. 



HOW THE GOODYEAR TIRE AND RUBBER CO. IS GROWING. 



'i'lie establishment, within the past six months, of fourteen 

 new brandies, indicates the progress the Goodyear Tire and 

 Rubticr Co. (Akron, Ohio), is making. This they attribute 

 largely to the popularity of tlieir "No-Rim Cut" tire, the sales 

 of which doubled during 1910. The company now has branches 

 in one hundred and twenty cities in the United States and 

 Canada, those recently opened being in Columbus, O., Dallas, 

 Tex., Des Moines, la.. Forth Worth, Tex., Indianapolis, Ind., 

 Jacksonville, Fla., Memphis, Tenn., and Oklahoma City, Okla. 

 The company have also recently opened a depot, store and repair 

 department at 1733-35 Euclid avenue, Cleveland, O. 



AMERICAN RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. 



The Americ.\n Rubber Manufacturing Co., with offices in 

 San Francisco and factory at Emeryville, California, who have 

 recently made a two-story addition to their plant, 40 x 80 feet, 

 for the accommodation of their cotton hose looms, send us copies 

 of their nowly issued price list. The company manufacture 

 belting, rubber and cotton and cotton rubber lined hose, packing, 

 mats and mattnig, tubing, valves, rubber covered rolls, springs, 

 and a full line of molded and mechanical goods, which they 

 describe in their price list, a neatly printed 16-page publication 

 in which they quote prices. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Jenkins Bros., manufacturers of the line of valves bearing 

 their name, and of the well-known Jenkins packings, announce 

 their removal from John street, where they have been located 

 for upwards of thirty years, to quarters better adapted to the 

 requirements "i their increasing business at 80 White street. 

 New York. 



The National India Rubber Company, Bristol, R. I., as lowest 

 bidders, have been awarded a contract for supplying the United 

 States government with submarine telephone cables, for use at 

 Newport, R. I. 



The Standard Rubber & Cable Co., Bridgeport, Conn., an- 

 nounce that Mr. W. J. Burns has resigned as president of the 

 company and is no longer connected with it in an official ca- 

 pacity. The company, which manufactures tires, special moulded 

 work and insulated wire, is preparing to increase its factory 

 space and producing capacity and reports prospects good for a 

 material growth. 



The Swinehart Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, have removed 

 their New York branch to No. 1924 Broadway. Here their 

 solid, pneumatic and internal wire tire departments are now 

 housed with other departments ; friends and customers are 

 invited to visit them in their new quarters. 



The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, are elated at 

 the showing made by their Firestone tires at the racing meet 

 for 1911, at Bablo Beach, Fla. Their durability was a factor 

 in some of the most notable victories, many of them won with- 

 out changing a tire, and they were used on many of the most 

 famous racing cars at the meet. 



The Walpole Rubber Company and Massachusetts Chemical 

 Co., New York and Walpole, Mass, manufacturing rubber goods, 

 druggists sundries, friction and rubber tapes, varnishes, paints 

 and compounds, rubber flux, moulded rubber and rubber and 

 electrical insulation, announce the removal of their New York 

 offices, to more commodious and conveniently located quarters, 

 at 80 to 82 Reade street. 



The Fisk Rubber Company, Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, have 

 been awarded the contract for equipping the apparatus of the New 

 ^'ork City fire department with pneumatic tires. The award 

 followed an exhaustive test of the wearing qualities of tires. 

 The entire outfit of the fire department of Springfield, Massachu- 

 setts, including, in addition to the automobiles used by the chiefs, 

 the engines, ladder trucks and hose wagons has been using Fisk 

 pneumatic tires for several months and they have given excellent 

 satisfaction. 



