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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October 1. 1920. 



and all the luimos built arc owned and occupied by Mason em- 

 ployes. The houses are of the most modern type with every 

 convenience. Besides detached houses the Mason Housing Co. 

 has recently overseen the construction of a large 23 apartment 

 terrace located near the te.xtile plant, which will be completed 

 early in the fall. 



C. W. McCone has been appointed consulting engineer for the 

 Columbia Tire & Rubber Company's plant at Mansfield, Ohio. 

 Mr. McCone was formerly with The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron. 



The Greenwich Rubber Co., Greenwich, Ohio, maintains a 

 sales office at 27 High street, Akron. This company was in- 

 corporated October 29, 1919, under the laws of Ohio, with $250,- 

 000 capital, to manufacture Greenwich green tubes, men's and 

 women's belts, and imitation leather. The officers of the com- 

 pany are: C. E. Foutts, president; \V. I. Foutts, vice-president; 

 H. H. Taylor, secretary and treasurer. F. M. Ncwall is general 

 sales manager, and G. E. Whalon, superintendent. \V. \V Fire- 

 stone is one of the directors. 



The Hercules Rubber Corporation. Cincinnati, Ohio, manu 

 facturcr of the "Hercules Airless Punctureless'' inner tube men- 

 tioned elsewhere in this issue, was incorporated May 27, 1919, 

 with a capital of $1,000,000, to manufacture, compound, sell and 

 purchase rubber products, make tires and tubes, etc. Its present 

 officers are : Edward H. L. Haefner, president ; Theodore Heck, 

 first vice-president ; Gordon L. Heck, second vice-president ; 

 Charles H. Adams, secretary; Elmer W. Vossler, treasurer. 



CLEVELAND NOTES 



The McElrath Tire & Rubber Co., Cleveland. Ohio, has made 

 application to increase its capital stock from $515,000 to $3,500,000. 

 The Synthetic Products Co., Cleveland, Ohio, dealer in raw 

 materials for the rubber trade, is prepared to supply standard 

 mineral rubbers in pulverized form to its customers and to 

 give unprejudiced technical advice as to the best hydro carbon 

 to use for. a particular purpose. 



The Associated Engineers Co., Cleveland, Ohio, announces the 

 opening of a new consulting department intended to serve tire 

 and rubber manufacturers having limited engineering organiza- 

 tions, or those who feel the need of 

 supplementing the work of their own 

 staff with that of specialists of wide ac- 

 quaintance with current practice. 



The new department will be under 

 the direction of Oliver Grosvenor who 

 brings to the company the results of 

 many years' experience as a rubber 

 technologist and engineer. He is a 

 graduate in chemical engineering of the 

 University of Michigan and has served 

 in the capacity of technologist and en- 

 gineer with the United States Rubber 

 Co., general laboratories. New York 

 City; Morgan & Wright, Detroit, Michi- 

 gan ; Mechanical Rubber Co., Cleveland, Ohio, and the Miller 

 Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. Mr. Grosvenor is the inventor of a 

 method of curing cord tires and of several devices for use in 

 tire manufacture. 



Widely circulated reports that the I'cdcral Reserve Board had 

 classed automobiles with "non-essentials" and ordered member 

 banks to restrict the financing of automobile accounts were 

 emphatically denied by Governor William P. G. Harding at the 

 meeting in Cleveland of credit and advertising sections of the 

 Motor and Accessory Manufacturers Association. 



"Nothing has been done by the Federal Reserve Board," said 

 Governor Harding, "that reflects in any manner upon one of 

 the greatest industries in the coimtry. It would be a serious 

 thing for any body of men to attack or attempt to destroy a 



business as lirmly rooted and having as many elements of 

 essentiality as the automotive industry. So far as the Federal 

 Reserve Board is concerned, no such attempts have been or will 

 be made." 



Oliver Grosvenor 



BUCXEYE RUBBEJl PRODUCTS ABSORBS POLACK TYRE 



The Buckeye Rubber Products Co., Willoughby, Ohio, in- 

 corporated last November, has purchased the entire business of 

 the Polack Tyre & Rubber Co., New York and Bridgeport, 

 Connecticut. 



The Polack Tyre & Rubber Co. manufactured exclusively 

 Polack solid truck tires which have been favorably known to 

 truck users since 1899. The manufacture of Polack tires will 

 be continued at the factory in Bridgeport until arrangements 

 are completed to move the equipment to the Buckeye plant at 

 Willoughby, Ohio, where good progress is being made in the 

 installation of equipment for the manufacture of heavy mechani- 

 cal rubber goods and molded specialties in addition to solid 

 tires. 



Charles H. Roth, formerly of the Federal Tire & Rubber 

 Co. and sales manager for The Mason Tire & Rubber Co., is 

 president and general manager. The officers and directors of 

 the company were formerly with The United States Rubber 

 Co., The Racine Rubber Co. and other well-known companies 

 in the rubber industry. 



Edwin L. Stimson is general superintendent of the Buckeye 

 plant, coming to the company from the United States Rubber 

 Co., where he spent over 20 years — 11 of them as general 

 superintendent. 



COLUMBIA TIRE & RUBBER CO.'S NEW PLANT 



The Columbia Tire & Rubber Co., Columbiana, Ohio, has grown' 

 beyond the capacity of its building in that city, and recently re- 

 capitalized and increased its capital stock to build a plant at 

 Mansfield, Ohio, for the construction of cord tires exclusively. 



The Mansfield plant is constructed according to the newest and 

 most approved design for factories of its type. It is built "U" 

 shaped with open court in the center covered by a dormer roof, 

 this lofty space being used as a mill and calender room. A 

 IS-ton traveling crane here installed handles all heavy material 

 from this department to any one of the three adjacent floors 

 without resorting to the use of the elevator, which will be used 

 only in emergency. The plant is so designed that raw material 

 entering the storeroom on the first floor will pass through the 

 manufacturing process without confusion or crossed operation. 

 Throughout the plant especial attention has been given to health- 

 ful working conditions. This is especially noticeable in the curing 

 department, which in many factories is unbearably hot for the 

 workers. This unpleasant feature has been overcome in the 

 Mansfield plant. The power plant is equipped with the latest 

 steam and electric devices to secure economy, and is so arranged 



