November 1, 1913.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Bristol Co., Waterbury, Connecticut, has taken over the 

 business of the Goodwin Hollow Set Screw Co., and has made 

 arrangements for the exclusive manufacture of the Goodwin 

 Patent Hollow Safety Set Screws with the dove-tailed slots. 

 Better facilities for manufacturing these set screws will be pro- 

 vided and shipments are already being made from the main fac- 

 tory of the Bristol company. 



The Anglo American Rubber Corporation has changed its 

 location from 367 Hamilton avenue, Brooklyn, to Bush Terminal 

 building No. 19 in the same city. 



The Panther Rubber Manufacturing Co., of Stoughton. 

 Massachusetts, has purchased a factory in Sherbrook, Quebec, 

 which it is equipping with machinery for the manufacture of 

 rubber heels, soles and soling. 



The Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Co., of Pittsburgh, 

 Pennsylvania, has been incorporated to distribute in that city 

 the product of the Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Co., of 

 Jersey City. 



The Aetna Rubber Co., of Cleveland, Ohio, large manu- 

 facturers of rubber gloves of all descriptions and also of 

 molded goods, have just erected a new factory 50 x 120 feet, 

 two stories high. 



The Pan American States Association held a meeting of 

 special interest on October 3 in its capacious quarters corner 

 Thirty-second street and Sixth avenue, New York. Plans 

 for the new home of the association were on exhibition. 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed 

 against the Standard Vulcanizing & Tire Co., of Nashville, 

 Tennessee by its creditors, who claim insolvency and ad- 

 mission of inability to pay debts. 



A drawback allowance was granted on October 6 by the 

 Treasury Department on the exportation of waterproof 

 cloaks and coats manufactured by the Cravenette Co., of 

 Hoboken, New Jersey, from imported woolen cloaks and 

 coats for the account of E. Connor & Co., New York City. 



THEY SPECIALIZE AT THE STODDASD WORKS. 



The C. H. Stoddard Rubber Tire Works, Worcester, Massa- 

 chusetts, believe in specializing. They make tires only for the 

 Ford cars and in but two sizes, viz. : 30 x 3 and 30 x 3J^. 

 They contend that by limiting themselves to these two sizes 

 of one tire they can afford to make them 25 per cent, over-size, 

 with extra fabric, and still sell them at a low price, not being 

 put to the great expense of the manufacturers who make a 

 great many different sizes^n some cases 4A — and a number 

 of different types of each size. The Stoddard company occupies 

 a four-story factory building and uses the one-cure wrapped 

 tread apparatus. 



THE COLONEL WAS EIGHT. 



Colonel Samuel Reber, head of the Government Signal 

 Corps at Washington and in charge of the Aeronautical De- 

 partment, and one of the best posted men on aeronautics in 

 the United States, was very much interested in the recent 

 balloon race from Paris in which the two Americans — Mes.srs. 

 Upson and Preston — took part in the balloon "Goodyear." 

 When all trace of this balloon was lost and some people were 

 afraid it had blown out to sea the Colonel, who is familiar 

 with the air currents in that part of the world, prophesied 

 that they would soon meet return currents that would carry 

 them back to the land and that they would drop somewhere 

 in Northern England. He also prophesied that they would 

 win the race. Both prophecies came true. 



THE DAVOL PLANT OF TODAY. 



WITH the completion of the addition to their already exten- 

 sive plant at Providence, Rhode Island, and the installing 

 of new calenders, mixers and special machines, together with a 

 complete power plant, the Davol Rubber Co. felicitate themselves 

 upon being the largest and liest equipped company in their line in 

 the world. This line, be it noted, is not confined to druggist^' 

 sundries, but is described by the manufacturers as "fine rubber 

 goods." This l)ro:i.!.-"--il '■.•1'! p-Oirarce the mvriad articles shown 



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in the surgeons' and dental depots and the stationery trade, and 

 an almost endless list of special articles used in every art, craft 

 and profession. 



With so diversified a line, many special machines, the production 

 (if the company's own experts, have been found necessary; and a 

 notable adjunct to the factory is the group of machine shops 

 where special tools, machines, molds and dies are designed and 

 made with an attention to detail and a finish that leaves nothing 

 to be desired. 



In its early beginnings in 1874, many articles in the Davol line 

 were imported into this coimtry, some extensively. Today the 

 Davol company have a large export business in these lines in Eu- 

 rope, and indeed send their goods everywhere in the Orient and 

 Occident. 



One of the pioneers in the business, the company was established 

 in 1874 and incorporated in 1882 as the Davol Manufacturing Co. 

 Three years later, to more fully designate the character of its 

 goods, the name was changed to The Davol Rubber Co. 



The present plant is not only efficient mechanically, but its or- 

 ganization of workers, some nine hundred, in all, is a skilled 

 force that works together with the perfection of a machine. 



As showing their knowledge of the difficult markets of the 

 world, the company, for instance, have specialized in rubber goods 

 suited to the Tropics, and their business in South America, Africa, 

 the Middle and Far East, and in Oceanica, is very large. 



To quote from a remark of one of their officers, "Success has 

 not been an accident but the culmination of years of constant 

 effort of many skilled minds concentrated on one idea, to produce 

 the best in good, honest goods." 



In 1914, the Davol company will round out forty years of con 

 tinuous and conspicuous business success. It is certainly to be 

 congratulated on this notable record. 



An .American consular officer in India reports that a resi- 

 dent of that country would like to secure catalogs from 

 -American manufacturers of spraying machines for use on 

 coffee trees, to distribute among members of an a.ssociation 

 to which he belongs. He desires prices along with the cata- 

 logs, and any other particulars available, such as the length 

 of time required to obtain such goods from the United States, 

 etc. Report No. 11,862. 



