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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



May 1, 1921 



growing depletion of accumulated tire stocks in the South- 

 west. 



W. V. Gear, who occupied a similar position in Seattle for 

 the Pennsylvania Rubber Co., Jcannette, Pennsylvania, has 

 been promoted to take charge of sales at the Los Angeles 

 branch, 950 South Main street, succeeding H. C. Edelman, 

 resigned. F. J. Ritchie is office manager. The branch will 

 specialize in vacuum non-skid tires. 



Brimfield & Ashton, formerly of Egg Harbor City, New 

 Jersey, have bought the business of the Voight Rubber Co., 

 722 East Colorado street, Pasadena, and under the name of 

 the .^shton Rubber Co. will specialize in Fisk tires and 

 tubes. 



"A decidedly improving tendency in trade," is reported by 

 .\elson & Price, 1056 South Olive street, one of the lar^^est tire 

 distributers in Los .\ngeles. Mr. Price is president of the 

 Los Angeles Tire Dealers' Association. 



F. C. Rowland. 6680 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, 

 one of the pioneer tire dealers in that section of Los .^ngeles, 

 has taken the agency for Hartford tires. 



The Westport Tire Co., large dealers in tires and tubes, 

 has removed from San Francisco to Los .Angeles. 



C. R. Prentice, formerly secretary of the West American Rub- 

 ber Co., has started the Cushion Pedal Co., and will deal in rub- 

 ber automatic accessories. 



Guasti, House & Giulii have been appointed sole truck tire' dis- 

 tributers for Los Angeles, including Hcllj-wood, by the Kelly- 

 Springfield Tire Co. 



Thermoid tires and tubes will be distributed by the Maxon Tire 

 Co. in its new quarters at Main and South Tenth streets, Los 

 Angeles. 



The Mechanical Rubber Co., 5411 South Hoover street, Los 

 -Angeles, specializes in patented novelties and experimental work, 

 making rubber heels and soles, plumbers' supplies, and various 

 kinds of mechanical rubber goods. The active factors are Thomas 

 J. Hill, president ; T. Kirk Hill, secretary, and W. P. Heickert. 



Lee tires will be handled in Los Angeles by E. Bruce Conlee 

 in cooperation with Chanslor & Lyon, which firm has had the 

 agency for several years. 



A new monthly shipping service between' Los Angeles and the 

 Orient, touching at Singapore and Javanese ports, has just been 

 started. 



The Elaterite Varnish & Rubber Co., 5Sth and .Manieda streets. 

 Los Angeles, maker of elaterite mineral rubber, which is sold 

 to rubber manufacturers in the East and Mid-West, is a Cali- 

 fornia corporation with $2,500,000 capital. C. H. Judd is 

 president: John B. Brokaw, vice-president; and D. H. McDonald, 

 secretary and general manager. 



Fay A. Bates, a Los Angeles tire worker in the Goodyear plant, 

 recently broke all records, it is claimed, for finishing tires, having 

 completed 112 double-molded clincher tires in eight hours. 



Operations have begun in the new plant of the West Coast 

 Asbestos Co. at Downey, California, that was started last fall. 

 Associated with the original promoters, E. M. and W. G. Smith, 

 rubber manufacturers of Los .\ngeles, is the United States .As- 

 bestos Co. of Manheim, Pennsylvania, one of the largest pro- 

 ducers of asbestos goods in .America. The capital stock will be 

 increased to $600,000 and the originally planned output doubled. 

 Asbestos-rubber belting, high-pressure parking, brake linings, gas- 

 kets, valve-stem packings, etc., will be manufactured. The spin- 

 ning and weaving mill will consume 8,000 pounds of asbestos yarn 

 daily, the raw material being brought from Canada. .Arizona, and 

 Southern California. It is said to be the only asbestos mill west 

 of Chicago. 



F. C. Harris, formerly of the San Francisco branch of the 



Kelly-Springrtcld Tire Co., has been appointed manager of the 

 Los Angeles branch, succeeding G. J. Brooks, who has been put 

 in charge of the San Francisco branch. 



It is rumored that a large Ohio rubber concern will soon estab- 

 lish a factory on an 88-acre tract adjoining the Southern Pacific 

 Railway between Glcndale and Burbank. It is stated that a tire 

 factory will be erected first, then a rubber reclaiming plant, and 

 finally a fabric mill. 



NOETHWESTEHN NOTES 



O. O. Gooch, for seven years a representative of the 

 United States Rubber Co. in Portland, Oregon, has been 

 appointed sales manager for the Oregon territory by the 

 Hcfwell-Swift Tire Co., makers of Mystic tires. 



To serve its steadily growing trade, the Puritan Rubber Co., of 

 Vakima, Washington, is planning to establish a chain of eight 

 factorv units on the Pacific Coast. 



CANADIAN NOTES 



•T^HE ANNu.\L FINANCIAL ST.\TE.MENT of the .\mes llolden 

 •1 McCready Co., Limited, for the year 1920, includes tire sales 

 of $224,313; felt sales $151,194, and shoe sales $6,514,552. Sales of 

 shoes for the previous year were $6,658,263. The figures showed 

 a deficit of $46,542 on tires, $7,227 on felts, and $639,836 on shoes. 

 The felt plant was not in operation until August last, although 

 sufficient orders were on the books to keep the plant in full opera- 

 tion up to that time. Orders filled during the last months of the 

 year showed insufficient profit to provide for a surplus, as stated. 

 The report states that the mild winter was not conducive to good 

 buying, but that the demand was showing up well. 



After all deductions, the net loss in 1920, and three quarter!) 

 preferred dividends, the deficit for the year totaled $639,836, 

 against a surplus of $176,150 in the previous statement, and 

 $323,322 in 1918-1919. The position as to -working capital was 

 reduced to $551,513, a decline in the year of approximately two 

 millions. Inventories were lowered by upwards of $600,000 at 

 the end of 1920, aggregating $3,396,824, as against over $4,000,000 

 in 1919. 



The earnings of the Canadian Westinghouse Company, Limited, 

 for the last year totaled $1,251,080, and the net profits $916,080, as 

 shown in the report presented at the annual meeting held March 

 29, 1921. at Hamilton. Ontario. 



During the year the outstanding capital stock was increased 

 from $6,229,400 to $7,417,900 by the issuance of 11.885 new shares. 



The Gregory Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd., Vancouver. British 

 Columbia, incorporated under the laws of that province with a 

 capital of $1,500,000 to manufacture tires, tubes and accessories, 

 has now commenced manufacturing, the capacity to be five 

 hundred tires and 1,000 tubes a day. Morton Gregory, a chemist 

 of considerable experience, is president and managing director ; 

 -\. B. Weeks is vice-president ; S. A. Madge is treasurer, and 

 Frank Parsons is secretary. R. O. Kellogg, superintendent, was 

 formerly superintendent of the American Tire & Rubber Co.; 

 F. B. Roesel is foreman of the tire construction department ; 

 Martin Nelson, foreman of the mill and calender department, 

 and W. T. Simpson, foreman of the tube and accessory depart- 

 ment. The main building is of reinforced concrete construction, 

 "0 by 180 feet, two stories and basement. Modern machinery to 

 the value of about $150,000 has been installed. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. of Canada. Limited, has 

 asked permission of the Ontario legislature to permit reorganiza- 

 tion of the Canadian company by reducing the capital stock of the 

 company from $100 to $10 per share and to permit the issuance 

 of prior preference stock to take care of various liabilities. Note 

 holders, whose claims aggregate $1,219,920, are to receive three- 

 year eight-per cent notes. Rubber commitment creditors are to 



