October 1, 1920.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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that the engineer in charge has a view of the entire mechanism 

 from any point in the plant. 



The new building is located on the main line of the Baltimore 

 & Ohio railroad and has access by industrial switching arrange- 

 ment to the main lines of the Erie and Pennsylvania railroads, 

 thus giving three main arteries for the shipment of its product. 

 The Columbia Tire & Rubber Co. expects to move its general 

 offices from Columbiana to Mansfield as soon as the new plant 

 starts operations, which will be about November 1. The plant 

 at Columbiana has been in existence for five years and will now 

 be known as Plant No. 2, while the Mansfield plant will be Plant 



THt Lui.L.\iui.\ Tike & Rubber Co.'s Plant No. I, 

 Mansfield, Ohio 



No. 1. The Columbiana plant has been building 700 tires and 

 1,000 tubes daily. The new plant will add 500 to 1,000 cord tires 

 and 3,000 tubes to the company's daily production. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN THE MID-WEST 



SEPTEMBEK MEETING OF MID-WEST RUBBER MANTJFACTUHEES' 

 ASSOCIATION 



THE September meeting of the Mid-West Rubber Manufac- 

 turers' Association, held at the Chicago Athletic Association 

 September 14, was attended by 42 members. From the standpoint 

 of discussion it was one of the most interesting meetings held by 

 this association. 



The feeling expressed by most of the tire manufacturers wa.s 

 that the worst had already been experienced in the depression in 

 the tire business, that conditions had already improved somewhat 

 and that they would gradually improve u.itil the first of the coming 

 year when normal business was again looked for. President 

 Christie called for expressions of opinion from tire manufacturers 

 representing all parts of the country, and all of them in general 

 agreed with this view. The opinion was also expressed that real 

 salesmanship was again to play a part in the tire business and 

 that hard work would be the solution of selling problems. The 



Group of Rubber Men at the Miii-VVest Outing, held at 

 Cedar Point During August 



opinion was also expressed that tire prices were soon due for a 

 radical revision downward, although there was considerable dif- 

 ference of opinion on this point, as some manufacturers felt that 



the manufacturing trade at large would not reduce prices on ac- 

 count of their raw material having been purchased at such high 

 price levels. 



New associate members were elected as follows : The Electric 

 Motor & Repair Co., Akron, Ohio, and The India Rubber World, 

 New York City. 



MIDWESTERN NOTES 



The annual convention of the National Association of Pur- 

 chasing Agents will be held at Chicago, October 11-13. A con- 

 ference of the Standardization Committee of the Association, of 

 which C. H. Money of the Federal Rubber Co., Cudahy, Wiscon- 

 sin, is a regional chairman, will meet the day preceding the 

 opening of the convention to pass finally upon the recommenda- 

 tion to be made to the association regarding a standardized 

 invoice form. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 258 Milwaukee street, Mil- 

 waukee, Wisconsin, is authorized to do business in that state 

 as a branch of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, 

 apitalized at $200,000,000. J. C. Sears is manager of the Mil- 

 waukee branch. 



Briggs & Stratton Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, manufacturers. 

 nf the Briggs & Stratton motor-wheel for attachment to bicy- 

 cles, etc., has issued $300,000 additional 8 per cent preferred cu- 

 mulative participating stock par value $100 per share, free from 

 normal Federal tax and entirely free from the state income 

 tax. 



Elton S. Boerstler, consultins,- rubber engineer, Denver, Colo- 

 rado, was born at Loyal Oak, Ohio, March 27, 1889. Upon 

 graduatiiig from the Barberton High School in 1908, he entered 

 the Ohio State University, from which 

 in 1912 he received a degree of bachelor 

 of science in chemical engineering. 



Immediately he joined the technical 

 staff of The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, 

 Ohio, and was presently in charge of the 

 chemical and physical testing laboratories 

 under the supervision of Dr. William C. 

 i ""fcc ""Wy Geer. From 1914 to 1917 he was asso- 



^^^ ^^^^^k. ciatcd with Edwin C. Shaw, works man- 



^^^^ I ^^^ ager, in solving efficiency problems, then 

 1^^^^^^-^ ^^^1 followed a year in the cord tire manu- 

 facturing and experimental departments. 

 In May, 1918, he resigned to become 

 technical engineer in charge of compounding and development 

 work of the boot and shoe plant of the Firestone Tire & Rub- 

 ber Co., Akron, Ohio. The following year, while sojourning 

 in Colorado, he saw an opportunity there for the services of a 

 lonsulting rubber engineer and opened an office in Denver, 

 where he is now associated with rubber experts from Akron. 



He is a member of the American Qiemical Society, Alpha Chi 

 .'-igma Fraternity, and was a member of the University Club 

 while ill Akron. 



The Ocotillo Products Co. has its main office at 1016 

 Merchants' Bank Building, Indianapolis, Indiana, and, besides 

 D. M. Bcchtel, president, is officered by William M. Jones, vice- 

 iiresident; Charles J. Murjihy, secretary-treasurer; and James 

 R. Fleming, counsel. 



The .\merican Auto Top Co.. Inc., Delphi. Indiana, has 

 hecn incorporated, with a capital of $200,000, to manufacture 

 glass-enclosed, demountable winter tops for automobiles. The 

 officers are: F. C. Martin, president and manager: J. C. Smock, 

 vice-president; II. B, Wilson, treasurer; W. O. Hefleng, secre- 

 tary The factory, which is equipped with modern machinery, 

 has a capacity of about 5,000 tops a year. 



Curtis Gray of Muskegon, Michigan, originally appointed re- 

 ceiver for the Palmer Tire & Rubber Co. of St. Joseph, was 



]'-i-T(jn S. Boerstler 



