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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August i, 1910. 



AFFAIRS OF THE G & J TIRE CO. 



THE interests ft The G & J Tire Co. and the Indianapolis 

 Rubber Co. have been merged, and articles of incorpora- 

 tion have been granted under the laws of Indiana for the 

 formation "t" a new company, b> be known as the G & J Tire Co. 

 of Indiana. The history of the companies here named forms an 

 interesting chapter in the development of the tire industry in 

 i ica. 

 Tin [ndianap lis Rubber Co., incorporated December 5. 1892, 



President Dowse. 



with $25,000 capital, was one of the first companies formed for 

 making tires as its principal output, and. at once attained suc- 

 cess, growing with the rapid increase in the demand for cycle 

 tires. The first president of the company, the late H. E. Gallo- 

 way, was also manager of the Indiana Bicycle Co. (Indianapolis), 

 and close relations existed between the two concerns until after 

 the death of Mr. Galloway, when the Indiana Bicycle Co. be- 

 came independent and began the manufacture of "G & J" tires 

 under royalty. When the American Bicycle Co. was organized 

 in 1899, among the properties taken over were those of the 

 Indianapolis Rubber Co. and the Indiana Bicycle Co. Shortly 

 afterward the American Bicycle Co. disposed of all its tire 

 manufacturing interests, and the tire making at the two plants 

 in question was merged in the factory of the Indianapolis Rub- 

 ber Co., which passed under the control of the Rubber Goods 

 Manufacturing Co. 

 The G & J Tire Co. was incorporated, in Xew Jersey, Novem- 



ber 17, 1899, with $1,000,000 capital, as a subsidiary company 

 of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. Its object, first, was 

 to act as a holding company for the G & J patents, covering the 

 American type of "clincher" tire for cycles and motor cars and, 

 secondly, to make and sell tires under its own name. The 

 leading makers of tires were licensed by the G & J company, 

 and the tires sold by this company were made at the factory 

 of the Indianapolis Rubber Co. For some years past the official 

 list of the G & J company has been identical with that of the 

 Indianapolis Rubber Co. 



There will be no liquidation of the 

 original G & J Tire Co. and the Indian- 

 apolis Rubber Co. The G & J Tire Co. 

 of Indiana assume all liabilities of the 

 Indianapolis Rubber Co. The G & J 

 Tire Co. — of New Jersey — as a patent 

 h lding corporation, will continue to 

 exist. 



During the past two years additions 

 have been made to the Indianapolis 

 plant, in the way of building extensions 

 and machinery equipment, of practically 

 $500,000, and the output of the plant has 

 increased over 700 per cent, during three 

 years. The G & J company are unique 

 in the respect that their factory is de- 

 voted exclusively to the manufacture of 

 pneumatic tires. 



The management of the G & J Tire 

 Co. is in the hands of Mr. Byron C. 

 Dowse, as president, and Mr. Richard 

 Ward, as secretary and treasurer. Mr. 

 Dowse became connected with the com- 

 pany in December, 1899. In time he be- 

 came manager of their Chicago branch, 

 and on the resignation of Mr. J. D. 

 Anderson, now president of the Hartford Rubber Works Co., 

 in October, 1907, Mr. Dowse was elected president of the 

 G & J Company. Mr. Ward has been an employe of the Rub- 

 ber Goods Manufacturing Co. for about fourteen years, having 

 served in different capacities with several of the subsidiary 

 companies before identifying himself with the G. & J. Tire Co. at 

 Indianapolis. 



Secretary Ward 



DOLLAR RUBBER AGAIN. 



ries of The G & J Tire Co. 



WHEN rubber is low in price mankind believes always that 

 it will go lower. When it rs high people are sure that it 

 is going higher. And this in spite of all statistical history. Of 

 course the exception proves the rule, and a very breezy excep- 

 tion in the form of a wealthy manufacturer thus expressed him- 

 self recently : 



"So they look for $3 rubber, and may be $4 rubber, do 

 they, almost all of them? The great majority sadly predict 

 continued high prices? I'm glad they do, for majorities are 

 usually wrong. Personally I am just as sure of seeing dollar 

 rubber again as I am sure that I have ever seen it. All of 

 this tine Para that has gone into automobile tires forms a 

 huge sinking fund for us. When we begin to spend it, crude 

 rubber will accumulate; for awhile big operators and wealthy 

 manufacturers will stock up at high prices, but they will soon 

 tire of that, and then prices will tumble. Few appreciate 

 what plantation rubber will do for us in the next five years. 

 Where we get 4,000 tons now, we will be receiving 40,000 

 or 50,000 tons. Then, too, I see the beginning of a greatly 

 stimulated production of wild rubber. The drop won't come 

 in a minute, but it will come, and dollar rubber sometime in 

 the future is a certainty." 



