July 1, 1914.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



543 



Operations at the factory of the B. F. Goodrich Co. are now 

 at a niaxinuini, as is always the case during the automobiling 

 season, when most cars are in use. At the present rate of pro- 

 duction — 10,000 tires a day — continued for a year, the output 

 would exceed the aim of the company, which is 2,000,000 tires a 

 year, hut this rate of course will not be kept up. The entire 

 mechanical department is also running at full capacity, and the 

 daily production is said to include about 17 miles of rubber hose 

 and 7 miles of belting. 



The White Anchor Relief .Association of tlie B. 1". Goodrich 

 Co. will proliably be united with the Diamond Relief Association, 

 which is connected with the Diamond branch of the Goodrich 

 plant. 



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The Goodyear Tire & Rublier Co. is making continuous ex- 

 periments with various balloon fabrics. This company has in- 

 stalled a new large press in its belting department. The capacity 

 of this department is about twenty thousand feet per day. The 

 demand for balata belting is heavy. 



A motorcycle trip around the globe, having as its purpose the 

 furtliering of the interests of the negro race, has been planned 

 by J. H. Cooper, of Akron. This trip will include London, 

 Paris, Berlin, Rome, Cairo, Africa, South America and Australia, 

 and every part of the outfit required has been selected witli 

 extreme care. Goodyear tires and tubes form a part of the 



equipment. 



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The machine here illustrated is the Adamson straining or re- 

 fining machine. It is designed with special drive in order to 

 bring the machine as closely to the floor as possible, and avoids 

 the necessity of a pit ; and being motor driven a self-contained 

 unit may be placed at any convenient location without special 



Ad.\mson's Str..\inixg or Refining M.\chine. 



foundations. These machines, which are built in a variety of 

 sizes, and equipped with the most approved and substantial 

 bearings, have come to be standard among rubber reclaimers. 

 The Adamson Machine Co., engineers, designers and builders, 

 are the nianuf;icturers. 



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Students taking the factory co-operative engineering course in 

 the University of Akron instead of getting a summer vacation 

 are to commence work July 1 in the rubber and other factories 

 of the city. They will spend two weeks alternately in the 

 factory and class-room, and are to receive pay for their work 



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The Quality Tire & Rubber Co., capitalized at $150,000, or- 

 ganized under the Ohio laws for manufacturing automobile tires 

 and tubes, is equipping a new plant at Hartville, Ohio, located 

 on the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad, about twelve miles north 

 of Canton. The officers of the company are : F. A. Schumacher, 



Hartville. Ohio, president; C. F. Munk, Louisville, Ohio, vice- 

 president ; E. D. Smith, Akron, secretary and treasurer ; E. E. 

 Smith, Akron, general manager ; E. H. Trump, Akron, general 



superintendent. 



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The Star Rubber Co. has recently increased its capitalization 

 from $250,000 to $350,000. 



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The National Association of Stationary Engineers held its 

 state convention in .'\kron, June 17, 18 and 19. Various papers 

 were read and discussed. The delegates made an inspection of 

 Goodrich and Goodyear plants, and the X. O. T. Gorge power 

 house and dam. Various rubber companies exhibited a full 

 line of mechanical goods. The following were among the ex- 

 hi1)itors: H. W. Johns-.Manville Co., Home Rubber Co., The 

 B. F. Goodrich Co. and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 



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The Portage Rubber Co. is increasing greatly its line of me- 

 chanical goods, and also adding a large number of employes. 



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Mr. F. E. Holcomb, manager of the Kelly-Springfield plant in 



.Akron, is confined to his home with inflammatory rheumatism. 



1 his company expects to occupy its Akron office some time in 



July. 



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Mr. Anthon Berg, expert on balata belting and asbestos pack- 

 ing, left for his home in Norway on June 30. 



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In a fire that destroyed the Government Powder House at 

 Panama City on the night of June 5 the automobile of the fire 

 chief of that city, which had been left standing about ISO feet 

 from the powder house, was completely destroyed, one of the 

 front wheels lieing blown free from the car. This was later found 

 more than 100 feet distant, and, to the amazement of everyone, 

 the tire — a Firestone Xon-Skid — was absolutely uninjured. Mr. 

 Arosemena. the fire chief, is said to have expressed himself as 

 quite satisfied with this test. 



THE GROWING POPULARITY OF TIRE HOSPITALS. 



By Our Cincitiiiati Correspondent. 



THE "tire hospitals" which are growing very rapidly in num- 

 ber—at least through the Middle West— have given a great 

 impetus to the high grade tire trade. Formerly many auto own- 

 ers were disposed to adhere to the cheaper grade of tires, on the 



The Inner Tl'be Needs Rep.-mrs. 



theory that it didn't make very much difference what the tire 

 cost it was bound to get stone-bruised and the more expensive 



