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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November 1, 1913. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Plans have been prepared for an addition to the plant of 

 the Batavia Rubber Co., of Batavia, New York, construction 

 estimates being based on a structure 85 x 101 feet, two-stories 

 and basement. The cost of the added factory will probably 

 be about $35,000. 



Contracts for 2,000 feet of fire hose were recently placed 

 by the fire department of Columbia, South Carolina, the 

 Eureka Fire Hose Co., and the Fabric Fire Hose Co., re- 

 ceiving orders for 1,000 feet each. 



The Ten Broeck Tire Co., located at Louisville, Kentucky, 

 and manufacturing motorcycle and automobile tires, is re- 

 ported to be meeting with success. This company was or- 

 ganized several months ago, with a capital stock of $250,000. 



In addition to the new Morgan & Wright plant recently 

 completed at Detroit, and of which they have taken posses- 

 sion, the erection of another building of equal size has been 

 decided upon, to be finished about April 1. These buildings 

 provide floor space of 400.000 feet each. 



The plant of the McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., at East 

 Palestine, Ohio, is soon to be enlarged by the erection of an 

 additional factory building. 



The firm of Cutler, Spack & Co., wholesale rubber dealers 

 of Chelsea, Massachusetts, has removed its office and ware- 

 house to 193 Second street, where it is much better equipped 

 than heretofore to advantageously take care of its business. 



The India Rubber Co., has been organized at New Bruns- 

 wick, New Jersey, for the manufacture of tires. The officers 

 of the company are: J. C. Wilson, president; Charles A. 

 Hunter, vice-president : W. L. Wild, secretary-treasurer. It is 

 expected that production will commence by December 1, 



The Endurance Tire & Rubber Co.. of New Brunswick. 

 New Jersey, has opened a sales branch on Boylston street. 

 Boston, with John L. Hamilton as manager. 



A three-story addition to the plant of the C. A. Shaler 

 Co., of Waupun, Wisconsin, is under course of erection and 

 when completed will be devoted to the manufacture of the 

 garage steam vulcanizer put out by this company about a 

 year ago. This addition will afford facilities for double the 

 present output. 



The Dayton Airless Tire Sales Co.. of Hamburg. New 

 York — of which John Schoepflin is president and Paul 

 Schoepflin secretary — has filed dissolution papers with the 

 Secretary of New York State; This company was incor- 

 porated early in 1912, with a capital stock of $10,000. 



The National Tire & Rubber Co. is to erect a large 

 factory at East Palestine, Ohio, to be devoted to the manu- 

 facture of automobile tires and inner tubes. This building, 

 for which contracts have been let. is to be 44 x 252 feet, two 

 stories high, of reinforced concrete. 



The Lee Tire & Rubber Co.. of Conshohocken, Pennsyl- 

 vania, has established local agencies for its tires with the 

 Lee Tire Sales Co., of Newark, New- Jersey, and the Lee 

 Tire & Rubber Co., of 1491 Bedford avenue. Brooklyn. New- 

 York. 



A fire which resulted in the destruction of the entire stock 

 of the Ellis Rubber Cement Co.. Maiden. Massachusetts, and 

 injury to three persons, occurred on October 8, caused by 

 the superheating of naphtha in a mixture of hot cement in 

 the hands of one of the proprietors. Herman C. Ellis, who 

 was painfully burned. Two firemen also suffered severe 

 injuries. The walls of the building were not damaged to 

 any great extent, but the roof was almost completely 

 destroyed. 



THE BTTBBEB CLUB SENDS OUT TABIFT INFOBUATION. 



Within two or three days after President. Wilson had signed 

 his name to the new Underwood Tariff Law, Mr. Vorhis, sec- 

 retary of the Rubber Club of America, mailed a circular to the 

 firm members of the club giving in condensed and convenient 

 form the various provisions of that law relating to the manu- 

 facture of rubber and gutta percha. He managed to get all 

 this information into four pages, and the circular will undoubt- 

 edly be retained by manufacturers for convenient reference. This 

 circular was printed primarily for the firm members of the club, 

 but anyone in the trade who will apply to Mr. Vorhis can get a 

 copy — as long as the edition holds out. 



THE GOKDON EUBBEB CO. 



In our October issue mention was made of additions to the 

 plant of the Gordon Rubber Co., at Beach City, Ohio, the size 

 of these buildings being given as 40 x SO and 40 ,x 200 feet re- 

 spectively. This was an error, these new factory buildings hav- 

 ing been added to the company's plant at Canton, Ohio, and 

 being respectively 40 x 165 and 40 x 200 feet in size. These 

 buildings — which are to be used for the manufacture of drug- 

 gists' sundries and inner tire tubes — have been completed and 

 equipped with all the latest machinery, and manufacture in the 

 new plant begun. The additional space and equipment will en- 

 able the company to more than double its output. 



THE KLEINERT COMPANY NOT TO MOVE. 



The report in circulation regarding the intention of the 1. B. 

 Kleinert Rubber Co. to remove its plant to a new location has 

 been denied by that company, H. A. Guinzburg, the treasurer, 

 stating : "The publication was a mistake. We have no intention 

 of removing our plant." This company manufactures a line of 

 dress shields, rubber sheeting, etc., with works at College Point, 

 Long Island, and office and salesrooms at 721 to 727 Broadway, 

 New York. 



OLDFIELD WINS WITH FIKESTONE TIBES. 



Detroit was the scene of the latest triumph of Barney Old- 

 field, one of the most popular of present day automobile 

 racers. In the competition which took place in that city 

 on September 21. he did a mile in 48.8 seconds. Incidentally, 



B.VRNEV OlDFIELD IN THE WINNING C.\R. 



it mi.ght be mentioned that in this race he used Firestone 

 tires, tlie same which he had used a short time before in a 

 race at Bakersfield. California, where on a dirt road he 

 covered a mile in 46.4 seconds, the lowest time yet made. 

 We reproduce herewith a recent photograph of Mr. Oldfield 

 in his racing car — a 300 horse-power Christy front drive. 

 He began his racing career in 1902, and ia the spring of the 

 following year, at Indianapolis, he first became famous as a 

 driver, doing a mile over a dirt track in a few seconds less 

 than a minute and making a world's record. 



