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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July 1, 1914. 



clasp, is a radical departure from previous designs. The new 

 buckles can be used on clothing with equal advantage. 



At a recent meeting of the stockholders of the Revere Rub- 

 ber Co., held at the offices of the corporation in this city, 

 it was voted to increase the capital stock from $4,000,000 to 

 $5,000,000, and notice to that eiTect has been I'lled at the 

 oflice of the Secretary of State for Rhode Lsland. This 

 notification is signed by Elisha H. Williams, president, and 

 W. H. Gleason, secretary. Under the new capitalization the 

 corporation will have $3,000,000 preferred and $2,000,000 com- 

 mon stock, the increased capital being in the former, which 

 previous to the vote of the stockholders was only $2,000,000. 

 The new issue will therefore be $1,000,000 preferred. 



Three tire manufacturers from Hanover, Germany, in this 

 country on a general inspection tour of tire plants, recently 

 visited the factory of the Revere Rubber Co. in this city, and 

 made a complete inspection of the plant. They were the 

 guests of Gimt-ral Manager Harlow Waitc. 

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Col. Samuel 1'. Colt, of Bristol, president of the United 



States Rubber Co., left on Memorial Day for his annual June 



trip to Camp Colt, at the foot of Mount Katahdin in Maine, 



accompanied as usual by several guests. In the party were 



Mr. and Mrs. Edwin .\. Barrows, Rev. George L. Locke, D.D., 



of Bristol ; Dr. Calvin S. May, Miss Frances Winaus, Miss 



Samuels and Nathaniel Myers, of New York; Miss Ruth 



Anthony, of Boston; Miss Beatrice Colt, Mrs. William Beres- 



ford, Walter S. Ballou and Col. and Mrs. Harold J. Gross, 



of this city. 



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H. F. Bittaker & Co., 52 Aborn street. Providence, have 

 recently taken the local agency for "Englebert Tyres" which are 

 made in Belgium. 



The local service and sales station for the Kelly tire, 

 Ronald S. Longley, manager, has been removed to 357 

 P'ountain street. 



The Union Paint & Varnish Co., 51 Exchange place, this 

 city, has taken the local agency for Tyrian tires, manufactured 

 by the Tyer Rubber Co., of .\ndover, Massachusetts. 



THE RUBBER TRADE ON THE PACIFIC COAST. 



liy Our Regular Corrcsl'ondcnt. 

 A NEW company, to be known as the Stott-Strugnell Co., has 

 •'*• been formed in San Francisco, with headquarters on Geary 

 street near Polk, composed of Whitney Stott and H. W. Strug- 

 nell. both of whom are well known in the automobile industry 

 of the coast. This company will act as Northern California 

 distributors of Batavia tires, the product of the Batavia Rubber 

 Co., of Batavia, New York. 



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B. H. Pratt. Pacific Coast manager of the Fisk Rubber Co., 

 of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, in commenting recently on 

 the number of automobile clubs, etc.. planning trips to California 

 during the progress of the Panama-Pacific Exposition and on 

 the extent and growth of the automobile and associated in- 

 dustries generally, had some interesting things to say of the 

 occupation of chauffeur which the automobile has created. Mr. 

 Pratt states that far from being on the plane of the coachman 

 of yesterday, the chauffeur of today is not a driver of a con- 

 veyance but a private engineer, and to be successful he nmst have 

 a mechanical knowledge even in advance of the railroad en- 

 gineer; must be equipped with a practical knowledge of tire 

 construction and repairs ; must be a student, keeping abreast of 

 the times in automobile construction and interested in advance- 

 ments to come ; as well as sober, industrious and temperate. 

 In fact, he states, "Instead of serving in a menial position, the 

 professional chauffeur is following an occupation that is, and 

 will be hereafter, considered most honorable." 



One of the first big steamers to pass through the Panama 

 Canal is to bring a full shipload of tires from the factory in 

 Massachusetts to the Los Angeles branch of this concern, Mr. 

 C. O. DuMars, branch manager, having been advised of the 

 chartering of a vessel for that purpose. To give an idea of 

 what a shipload of tires means it might be said that the number 

 of casings in the cargo would fill ten freight cars, constituting a 

 train load. These tires will come direct to the new city harl)or 

 at San Pedro, for distribution from Los Angeles to all the 

 coast agencies of the Fisk company, 



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One company which has been seriously alTecleil liv the war in 

 Mexico is the Savage Tire Co., of San Diego, most of whose 

 crude rubber supplies and compounding chemicals are shipped 

 to California from the east over the Teluiantcpcc National Rail- 

 road across Mexico to Salina Cruz and thence by steamer up the 

 coast. The seizure by the Constitutionalists of one of the passes 

 through which this railroad runs has closed this part of the road 

 to freight traffic, making it necessary for the Savage company to 

 have its supplies forwarded by a 48-day route leading through the 

 Straits of Magellan. 



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The Pacific Rubber & Tire Manufacturing Co. has recently been 

 organized in Seattle, Washington, with a capital stock of $25,000, 

 all paid in, to manufacture automobile tires and tubes. The 

 stockholders and trustees of the new concern are B. L. Gates, 

 C. A. Kilbourne, H. C. Ewing, Judge Arthur B. Griffin and E. L. 

 Webster. The site of the plant — which it is said will employ 

 more than 150 men at the start and turn out 150 tires a day — 

 has not been definitely decided upon, but it will probably be either 

 on the west shore of Lake Washington or in the Duwaniish River 

 valley, both of which sections are under consideration. The ex- 

 pectations are that the erection of the factory will be completed 

 by the time the machinery is ready for installation. This ma- 

 chinery, the manufacture of which will re(|uire four months' time, 

 is said to have already been ordered. 



This company will inaugurate the following rather unique sell- 

 ing plan : Gold certificates, profit-sharing and bearing interest, 

 in denominations of $50 and $100, will be sold to customers — the 

 $50 ones to those using the smaller size tires and the $100 variety 

 to those using tires of the larger size — the holders of certificates 



being entitled to purchase tires at wholesale prices, 



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F, B, Kendall has been appointed manager of the Seattle branch 



of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co, 



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The item which appeared in the June number of The Indi.'V 

 RfBBER World, page 489. mentioning a new local sales branch 

 in San Diego just opened by the B. F. Goodrich Co., was 

 incorrect. The Goodrich concern has had a stock depot 

 at this point for the past two years, which is still being operated 

 and which the company intends to continue to operate as in 



the past. 



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.'\n cnterprisiu.g concern and one which is nicetin.g with success 

 is the Imperial Valley Trading Co., of which G. Charles Builen 

 is president and manager, and which operates a line of motor 

 trucks between the fruit and vegetable growing districts of the 

 Imperial Valley and San Diego. This trip is made in eleven 

 hours, or about one-fifth the time required by horse-drawn 

 vehicles, fruit picked in the afternoon being delivered in San 

 Diego the next morning. The company now has 13 Morelaud 

 trucks in operation, has ordered two additional trucks and ex- 

 pects within a few months to have ten others engaged in the 

 service. .Ml the trucks so far in operation by this company are 

 equipped with L^nited States tires. 



The Tire Shop, at Stockton, California, which commenced 

 business in January of this year, as agents for Michelin and 

 Diamond tires, is doing a very satisfactory business. 



