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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October 1, 1920. 



appointed trustee of the bankrupt concern at the first meeting 

 of the creditors of the company. 



The Ford Motor Co.. Detroit, Michigan, are now making all 

 the hard rubber parts used on Ford cars from a compound known 

 as Fordite. 



Harry Kessinger Co., Joplin, Missouri, importing and manu- 

 facturing chemist aiid manufacturer of toy balloons, has re- 

 moved from Si.Kth and Kentucky avenue to Main street at 12th. 



The Marion Insulated Wire & Rubber Co., Marion, Indiana, 

 is erecting a three-siory-and-basement plant addition, 35 by 

 60 feet, to accommodate additional equipment recently purchased. 

 The officers of the company are: Robert J. Spencer, Sr., presi- 

 dent: C. A. Michaels, vice-president: Robert J. Spencer, Jr., 

 treasurer, and L. .\. Lillard, secretary. J. F. .'Vuten is general 

 manager. This company manufactures rubber-covered wires 

 and cables and maintains a Chicago office and warehouse at 541 

 West Washington Boulevard, Chicago. Illinois. 



THE RUBBER TRADE ON THE PACIFIC COAST 



By Our Regular Correspondent 



DECIDEDLY IMPROVED coN'DiTEO.vs in the rubber trade, particularly 

 in the automobile tire line, are reported by general sales 

 agents who have recently toured the section betwen the Rocky 

 Mountains and the Pacific Coast. After three successive years 

 of pour crop conditions, farmers have been successful this year. 

 and their good fortune will be shared by automobile tire dealers 

 and manufacturers. A slight business depression in Portland, 

 Seattle, and Spokane districts, due largely to gasoline shortage, 

 has now been quite cleared up; apd tire dealers anticipate a 

 great rush of tourists to the Coast this fall, which will mean 

 a large demand for tires. All the Pacific tire branches arc 

 very optimistic over the trade outlook. 



LOS ANGELES NOTES 



The pony blimp of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of 

 California made two notable trips recently. It delivered to 

 Douglas Fairbanks at Beverly Hills the first four cord tires 

 made at the new Los .Angeles factory, and also conveyed Mr. 

 and Mrs. Philip Wrigley twenty-five miles overseas from Cata- 

 lina Island to Los Angeles. Mr. Wrigley is the son of William 

 W^rigley, Jr., the chewing gum magnate and chief owner of 

 the island. The Goodyear cord tire production is now over 

 200 a day and will be soon increased. 



Football and basket-ball teams have been picked by the em- 

 ployes of the big Goodyear works in Los .Angeles, and intensive 

 training was begun last month on the new athletic field north 

 of the factory. 



Becau.se of the increased volume of business in aeronautics 

 and the need of increased supervision in the work, the Goodyear 

 Tire & Rul)ber Company of California has established an aero- 

 nautics department with P. K. Coe as manager. Simultaneously a 

 government sales department has been established and will also 

 be under Mr. Coe's supervision. The new manager of Good- 

 year's Pacific Coast aeronautic activities has had a wide ex- 

 perience in similar lines with the .Akron organization. In addi- 

 tion he was in the navy aviation service during the war and 

 holds a pilot's certificate from the .\ero Club of America. Since 

 his arrival in Los .Angeles in .April, he has staged many unique 

 exhibition flights and has greatly stimulated aviation along the 

 Pacific Coast. 



The Lap-Lock Tire Co., with an authorized capital of $1,- 

 000,000, has been incorporated in Los .Angeles by H. L. Averill, 

 Dr. Ross Moore, H. O. .Averill, Harry J. McLean and L. A. 

 Cadwalader. The concern plans to build a factory soon in the 

 San IPedro harbor section of Los Angeles and to make rubber 

 tires and tubes. Later it expects also to manufacture other 

 «ror>Hc ni rubber and gutta percha. The company's temporary 



office is that of its attorney, Mr. McLean, 602 Merchants' Na- 

 tional Bank Building, Los Angeles. 



What is regarded as a long step taken toward making Los 

 .Angeles a great concentration center for cotton is the city's 

 compliance with the Federal Government's requirement that a 

 bond be furnished for the privilege of issuing standardized 

 municipal warehouse cotton receipts Not only arc local bankers 

 thus relieved of the responsibility of supplying funds for the 

 cotton trade on an ordinary mercantile credit basis, but, by the 

 use of bank acceptances under a Federal guarantee that the 

 goods are securely in bond, the credit facilities available for 

 cotton marketing become country-wide rather than local. This 

 is an advantage, it is pointed out, to growers, merchants, ex- 

 porters and mill men, and will particularly encourage planters 

 of the staple to extend the scope of their operations. 



An index of the extent of tlie rubber tire sales and needs in 

 California is afforded by the latest registration figures issued 

 by the motor vehicle department, showing 450,155 passenger 

 cars, 31,195 trucks and 17,750 motorcycles listed. 



E. S. Foljambe, widely known throughout the automotive in- 

 dustry, has joined the forces of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber 

 Company of California, Los Angeles, 

 as a special representative of the motor 

 truck tire department. He will devote 

 liimself to educational speech making 

 ill "motorize the farm campaigns" and 

 to special sales promotion work. Mr. 

 Foljambe was recently directing edi- 

 /■"•fin*^ ' . tor of the Chelton publications, in- 



^^L ^'*s». / eluding the Automobile Trade Journal 



^^^k . ^^^^ and the Comnwrcial Car Journal. A 

 ^^^^^#L^^^H member of the Society of .Automotive 

 |^^^^Bfl|nt ^^^1 Engineers since inception, he be- 



came vice-president and a member of 

 the council in 1916, and also holds 

 many honorary memberships in various automobile and trade 

 associations. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of California has 

 just opened at its new factory in Los .Angeles a free school 

 of tire repairing, in charge of J. R. Wells, manager of the 

 repair materials department, and G. H. Irwin, chief instructor. 

 .A complete practical three weeks' course with shop work, 

 lectures and instruction in business methods will be given. 

 .Any Far Westerner is eligible to enter the school, which is 

 modeled somewhat after the big Goodyear tire repair school 

 in Akron. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of California has 

 increased the working force at its Los Angeles plant to 

 over 2,500, working si.x days a week and twenty-four hours a 

 day in three shifts, and production now runs over 1,500 tires 

 and 2,500 tubes a day. Officials say that by January 1, the 

 plant will be turning out 3,000 tires and 5,000 tubes daily. 

 Construction work on the mills is nearly complete, and the 

 company expects to have installed within a very short time 

 all the machinery ordered from the East. The general offices, 

 which had been for the past ten months on the eighth floor 

 of the Washington Building, Third and South Spring streets, 

 have been moved to the new factory, where the third floor 

 of the warehouse building had been set apart for the corps 

 of 750 workers. 



The George W. Eno Rubber Co., of 1026 South Los .Angeles 

 street, Los .Angeles, is now making red inner tubes in all 

 sizes. The company also makes continuous liners known as 

 Eno Inso tires, and Eno E.xso tires to completely cover casings 

 by being vulcanized over treads and sidewalls. The Eno Exso 

 tire-vulcanizing machine is also distributed by the company for 

 applying the "cover-all" to worn casings. 



