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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1914. 



THE NEW MULCONROY FACTORY. 



The ilulconroy Co., of I'liiladclpliia, has recently erected a 

 new factory at Fifty-fourth and JefTferson streets in that city 

 for ihif manufacture of its specialties, including its flexible 



PL.^NT OF THE MuLCONROY Co., PhIL.\DELPHI.\. 



metallic hose, couplings, nipples and "/-League" rubber boots 

 with sewed on leather soles. This illustration gives a very 

 good idea of the new factory. 



THE WADLEIGH CO., LTD., OF SINGAPORE. 



I he January number of The 1nui.\ Rubber World contained 

 a brief story covering the plans of Mr. W. L. Wadleigh, formerly 

 of Boston, who was about to start at that time for Singapore, 

 where he hoped to make connections by which he could act as 

 representative in New York of the eastern planters and sell 

 their rubber direct to American manufacturers. He sailed for 

 Singapore early in January, arriving there about the middle of 

 b'ebruary, and he has now returned to this country after having 

 successfully accomplished all that he planned to do. He has 

 established a company at 4 Robinson Road, Singapore, under the 

 name of Wadleigh Co., Ltd., and has also become associated with 

 Dunbar & Co., at 290 Broadway, New York. Through these two 

 connections he will buy rubber from the planters for direct ship- 

 ment to New York or will act as a commission merchant to sell 

 their rubber to the American manufacturer. 



.As mentioned in some detail in the January issue, Mr. Wadleigh 

 has had twenty-five years' experience as a commission merchant 

 (chiefly in Boston) and is well acquainted not only with all the 

 large buyers of rubber in the United States but with the re- 

 quirements generally of the manufacturing trade. 



ME. T. W. MILLER HAS AN AUTO. ACCIDENT. 



Mr. Thomas W. Miller, president of the Faultless Rubber 

 Co., of Ashland, Ohio, while on his way with a party of 

 friends m an auto, recently, for a short vacation at Mount 

 Clemens, Michigan, met with a painful accident. As the car 

 was going through a tunnel under the railroad track at Chi- 

 cago Junction it skidded on the pavement where a q.uantity 

 of oil had dripped from the engines above and struck the curb 

 with such force as to overturn it. Mr. Miller's collar bone 

 was broken and some of the ligaments at the shoulder were 

 painfully torn. It is not expected, however, that the accident will 

 result in any permanent injury. 



RUBBER MILLS CLOSE DOWN FOR SUMMER REPAIRS. 



The factory of the Candee Rubber Co., at New Haven, 

 closed on July 18 for the customary midsummer machinery 

 repairs. The factory expects to open again on August 10. 



The factories of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., at Essex Fells 

 and Edgeworth, Massachusetts, closed on July 25 for annual 

 summer stock taking. Both of these mills will also re-open on 

 August 10. • • . 



SALE OF THE WALPOLE COMPANY AGAIN POSTPONED. 



The sale of property of the Walpole Tire it Rubber Co., 

 at Walpole, Massachusetts, scheduled for July 8, has again 

 been postponed until August 12. The postponement was due 

 to an arrangement between the reorganization and the stock- 

 holders' committees, the representative of the latter committee 

 informing the court that a plan was on foot whereby the 

 committee would buy in the property, thus protecting both the 

 creditors and the stockholders. 



The receivers of the Walpole company have recently filed 

 their second report, which shows aggregate sales for the first 

 five months of the present year to have amounted to $708,486, 

 on which the profits were $112,359 gross, $83,801 net. This 

 report shows the surplus of the Walpole Rubber Co., Ltd., 

 of Granby, Quebec, to be $27,323, the assets of that company 

 amounting to $406,442, and places the surplus of the Walpole 

 ■ Shoe Sujjply Co., whose assets are given as $342,074, at $34,688. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Farrel Foundry & Machine Co., of Ansonia, Connecticut, 

 manufacturers of ruliber mill macliincry, is planning an addition 

 to its plant. 



While alterations arc in progress at the plant uf the Sterling 

 Gum Co., in Long Island City, New York, the headquarters 

 of the company will be located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where 

 a large factory building has been leased for this purpose. The 

 additions and alterations planned will increase the capacity of 

 the plant to about five times its present output. 



The name of the Detroit Pneumatic Tire Co. has been changed 

 to the Wilson Tire & Rubber Co. 



The contract for pneumatic tires and tubes to be used on 

 motor vehicles operated by the Highway Department of the 

 State of Pennsylvania has been awarded to the Pennsylvania 

 Rubber Co.. of Jeannette. while the contract for solid tires for 

 use in the same department has been placed with the Gibney 

 Tire & Rubber Co., of Conshohocken. 



The officers of the S. & M. Tire & Rubber Co., of Coshocton, 

 Ohio, and the members of the Board of Trade of that city, ■ 

 are reported to have reached an agreement whereby the com- 

 pany becomes the property of the local stockholders. The plant 

 of this company is now completed and most of the machinery 

 installed, but operations have been delayed owing to difficulties 

 in financing. 



Work has been started on a new factory building 220.x5O 

 feet in area for occupancy by the McNaull Auto Tire Co., at 

 Toledo, Ohio. 



The King Rubber Co., incorporated March 31 last under the 

 laws of Massachusetts with a capital stock of $50,000. to manu- 

 facture articles made wholly or in part of rubber, gutta percha, 

 etc., has leased the extensive manufacturing property, fully 

 equipped with rubber machinery, owned by the Hyde Park 

 Rubber Co. and located at 915 Hyde Park avenue. Clarendon 

 Hills, a suburb of Boston. This plant is being remodeled for 

 immediate occupancy. 



The Cambridge Rubber Co., of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 

 has been petitioned into bankruptcy at the instance of three 

 creditors, the largest of whose claims amounts to $11,500, and 

 represents two promissory notes. 



A receiver was appointed on July 8 for the O.xford Rubber 

 Co.. of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the petition of Isaac 

 McPherson, of Bridgeton, New Jersey, surety on a contested 

 note for $4,100 held by the Cumberland National Bank of 

 Bridgeton. The assets of the Oxford company are said to be in 

 excess of its liabilities, which are estimated at $48,000. 



The best of rubber bands can be made by cutting up dis- 

 carded inner tubes of tires. 



