September 1, 1911.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



511 



TEADE NOTES. 



Wright & Ditson (Boston, Massachusetts), well known as 

 producers of the "green circle" golf ball, are also on the market 

 with a "red circle" and "black circle," the latter, being a small 

 ball. 



The United States Tire Company claim that they are pro- 

 moting the largest advertising campaign ever attempted by any 

 tire company. It is gossipped that they have $250,000 to spend. 



The Michelin Tire Company, Milltown, New Jersey, true to 

 their published convictions, have equipped their factory trucks 

 with pneumatic instead of solid tires. 



The Manufactured Rubber Company, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 

 vania, has declared a regular quarterly dividend of Ij/j per cent. 

 on their preferred stock. 



Gorham-Revere Rubber Company have secured a long-term 

 lease on a four-story brick building on Fifth street, Portland, 

 Oregon. The ground floor will accommodate their offices and 

 show-rooms, on the upper floors will be the retail and whole- 

 sale departments. 



Rapid progress is being made with the Stoughton Rubber 

 Company's new building, at Stoughton, Massachusetts, and the 

 structure is now rapidly approaching completion. 



A Pacific Coast branch for the Republic Rubber Company, is 

 in course of erection at Golden Gate and Hyde streets, San Fran- 

 cisco. The building will be two stories and basement, 70x157 

 feet, and is about ready for occupancy. M. E. Murray, the com- 

 pany's general Western manager, will be in charge. 



A unique advertisement of the Republic Rubber Company, 

 youngstown, Ohio, is in the form of an artistic postal card, bearing 

 on one side in colors a bird's-eye view of their plant and a pic- 

 ture of their Staggard tread tire, and on the address side a pic- 

 ture of the local agency in the territory in which it is sent out. 



Alexander Dow, who will be remembered as the inventor of 

 the non-puncturable inner tube, which had a pouch filled with 

 paste and feathers that actually held air no matter how many 

 nails were driven through it, has joined the selling force of 

 Wyckoff, Church & Partridge, New York. 



At the general meeting of The Miner Rubber Co., Ltd., Gran- 

 by, Quebec, Mrs. S. H. C. Miner was elected president ; Mr. W. 

 H. Miner, vice president and general manager; Mr. R. R. Ma- 

 caulay, secretary-treasurer, and Mr A. C. Flumerfelt, chairman 

 of the executive committee. Mrs. Miner and Mr. Flumerfelt 

 were also added to the board of directors. 



In view of the erroneous ideas prevailing as to the tire ex- 

 pense in connection with commercial vehicles, a recent report, 

 made to the United States Tire Co. by the Philadelphia (Pa.) 

 Electric Co., may be of interest. The company in question uses 

 a number of motor trucks and finds that six and seven thousand 

 miles is not an uncommon record for their solid tires, while 

 many that have run over 5,000 miles are still good for long ser- 

 vice. Records of 8,922 and 8,817 miles were recorded for two 

 tires still in excellent condition. Hartford solid tires were used 

 on all these vehicles. 



After covering 200.000 square feet of surface with Diamond 

 tire signs, advertising car Xo. 4, of the Diamond Tire Company, 

 recently reached Minneapolis after a sign-painting trip from 

 Memphis, Tenn.' One of the car's crew of five men was miss- 

 ing, having been badly injured when the car upset on a sandy 

 stretch in Iowa. The company has eight such cars out, covering 

 the country with Diamond tire signs. 



Messrs. J. M. and L. Waterbury, who are reckoned as among 

 the best polo players in the world, are interested in the Water- 

 bury Companj', and the New York Rubber Reclaiming Company. 



The Hardman Tire & Rubber Company, Belleville, New Jer- 

 sey, are making a strong canvass for the support of auto- 

 mobilists for "single-cure tires.'' 



RUBBER-COVERED CALENDER ROLLS. 



To THE Editor of the Inui.\ Rubber World: 



Sir: Information about any branch of the india rubber manu- 

 facture as carried on in the United States, is read with pleasure 

 by practical mill managers here, in England. Hence the article 

 on "Rubber Rolls of Many Sorts" was of great interest. 



This does not mean that we intend to emulate our American 

 cousins in making typewriter rubber-covered platens, not a bit of 

 it; we have our own special work to do. 



Here is a record of part of a rubber mill manager's daily duty 

 in connection with the cotton and woolen industries of Lanca- 

 shire and Yorkshire. These industries require a very great 

 number of rubber-covered calender rolls for dyeing, printing of 

 fabrics and wringing purposes. 



The importance of this business rubber-covering of calender 

 rolls is shown by the fact that it requires 20 qualities of com- 

 pounded rubber, every one of which must be beautifully balanced 

 in composition to fulfil the various working conditions required. 



Our (1910) record, which will take some beating for heavy 

 calender rolls is as follows: 



January 22 Calender Rollers Covered. 



February 43 " " " 



March 33 



April 19 



May 10 



June 24 



July 21 



August 22 



September 23 " " " 



217^9 months' covering. 



The Bradford Dyers' Association, a combination of large dye- 

 ing firms, sometimes gives an order for 24 or more rolls at a 

 lime. 



The paper industry makes use of 'the largest rolls. We have 

 wondered to see with what great delicacy of touch a 5-ton rubber- 

 covered roll will pick up tissue paper, and continue doing so for 

 many miles in length without tearing; running about one mile 

 in eight minutes. 



We covered with rubber of special quality a 10-ton calender 

 roll for a paper mill in Norway. Dimensions of roll on working 

 face 164 in. x 26 in. diameter. Quantity of rubber used, 922 lbs. ; 

 using about $1,000 worth of good quality rubber. 



We covered two paper rolls for the Thames Paper Mills at 

 Purfleet-on-Thames, with special dark ■ quality ; one roll 121 

 in. on working face by 22 in. diameter, which took 730 lbs. of 

 rubber covering. 



However, our largest piece of work was a set of six calender 

 rolls, for Edward Lloyd, Limited, of Sittingbourne, Kent, known 

 years ago as Lloyd's Weekly newspaper of London, one of the 

 earliest Sunday newspapers. Curious ingenuity was shown in 

 advertising Lloyd's Weekly newspaper. Among others, all the 

 pennies Mr. Lloyd could lay hands on were embossed by a 

 cleverly constructed machine with the title and price of the new 

 journal. The Times soon drew attention to this defacement of 

 Queen Victoria's coin, and so gave a better advertisement still. 

 The skill of the American machine makers was* put to a test 

 which produced for Lloyd's Weekly Hoe's first great web ma- 

 chine — adopted immediately afterward by two morning papers in 

 London. This set of six rolls took 3,767 lbs., or 1 ton XZYi 

 cwts. of best quality rubber covering. English Expert. 



The Rubber Growers' Association of London, assembled in 

 general meeting, awarded the gold medal of the association to 

 A. Staines Manders, organizing manager of the International 

 Rubber Exhibition. No award could be more appropriate or 

 more deserved. We congratulate Mr. Manders. 



