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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



June 1, 1921 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN NEW JERSEY 

 Bj Our Rf^ulur Correspoiuleiil 



TKENTON NOTES 



A i.i. tire and tube manufacturers in Trenton have placed in 

 ■*»■ effect a reduction on all tire products that varies at different 

 plants and runs from 17 to 25 per cent, according to the grade 

 of tires made. 



The Thernioid Rubber Co. announces a reduction of 16 to 28 

 per cent, the former applying to cord and the latter to fabric 

 tires. This places Trcnton-made tires and tubes on a pre-war 

 basis and will eventually result in increased business at the .fac- 

 tories. 



.•\t the office of the United & Globe Rubber Co. it was said 

 that the reduction in the prices of tires was made after the cut 

 put into effect by the larger companies in the West and else- 

 where. Summed up, the reduction in Trenton averages about 20 

 per cent. The reduction became effective the first week in May. 

 The entire situation has taken on a peculiar turn. The industry 

 began to improve after the big slump of last winter and prospects 

 were excellent for a big summer trade, when business began to 

 drop off in certain sections of the country. .\11 it needs is stormy 

 weather to hurt the tire industry. While orders were coming 

 in for many tires there was a long and severe storm in the West 

 which had a telling effect upon the tire industry. Tire sales- 

 men covering the territory along the Atlantic Seaboard, however, 

 report business good. 



The Thermoid Rubber Co. announces that orders have 

 dropped off during the past few weeks, and the cause was un- 

 doubtedly the western storms. It is expected that business will 

 pick up again shortly. About 350 men are at work. The Zee 

 Zee Rubber Co. reports a revival in business and is now placing 

 more men at work. The company's salesmen announce an in- 

 crease in orders from all sections. The Bergougnan Rubber Cor- 

 poration is now running 75 per cent capacity. Warren A. Clapp, 

 treasurer of the company, says that the concern has experienced 

 a steady improvement during the past few weeks. At the plant 

 of the Empire Rubber & Tire Corporation business is picking up 

 and a busy summer is anticipated. 



The Ajax Rubber Co. is looking far ahead and making plans 

 for anticipated revival in business. Operations base been cur- 

 tailed to permit the installation of new machinery and improved 

 equipment. Present plans contemplate a renewal of activities on 

 a larger scale within a few weeks. The Essex Rubber Co. is 

 operating on a full basis, while the Whitehead Brothers' Rubber 

 Co. is operating but three days a week. Some of the depart- 

 ments of the Vulcanized Rubber Co. are working on part time 

 only, with others on full time. 



John S'. Broughton, president of the United & Globe Rubber 

 Co., has received a contract for 38,000 feet of fire hose for the 

 Fire Department of the City of Philadelphia. The hose de- 

 partment of the company is now running at 100 per cent capacity. 

 One of the busiest rubber concerns in the East is the Acme 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., whose plant is running full time, 

 fifty-five hours per week, in addition to a night force working 

 fifty hours per week. This is the only concern in Trenton 

 operating on full time and with a night crew. Business at the 

 plant has increased to such an extent that the company recently 

 completed a one-story addition, 90 by 300 feet, devoted exclusively 

 to the manufacture of molded hose. 



F. T. Austin and K. A. Ward have opened a tire establish- 

 ment at 402 Market street, Camden, New Jersey, to equip auto- 

 mobiles in emergency cases, to aid motorists who have tire trouble 

 along the road and who do not want to take the trouble to re- 

 pair their tires. Mr. .Austin has been engaged in the tire business 

 for many years, and Mr. Ward was fonnerly supervisor of 

 branches of the .^jax Rubber Co. 



Owing to increased business tlie Trenton Zinc & Chemical 

 Co., manufacturers of zinc oxide, will shortly erect additions to 



the plant at Trenton. The company last year produced 2,000,000 

 pounds of zinc oxide and contemplates turning out 12,(XX),000 

 pounds when the plant is enlarged. It has contracts for the out- 

 put of the mines in Salem, Kentucky, and is operating 100 per 

 cent capacity. 



John O. Higelow, trustee in bankruptcy for the Trenton Rubber 

 Co., manufacturer of automobile tires, has filed an intermediate 

 report in the United States District Court, showing that the 

 company has earned profits of $6,545.32 by a partial operation 

 of the plant. Judge Lynch has confirmed the report of the 

 trustee. 



The Times Square Auto Supply Co., with headquarters in 

 Chicago, Illinois, has taken over tlic business of the Automotive 

 Accessories Co., 128 East Hanover street, Trenton. The company 

 has made a number of improvements to the store and has added 

 bicycle tires to the tire department. 



William H. Johnson & Son, who have been conducting a 

 tire vulcanizing establishment at Broad Street Park, Trenton, 

 have opened a business at 407 South Broad street. 



Oiarles H. West has removed his tire establishment from 

 135 East Hanover street to larger quarters at 116 South Mont- 

 gomery street, Trenton, where he is handling Bergougnan tires 

 and tubes. 



MISCELLANEOUS NEW JERSEY NOTES 



The tire business of A. H. Brown & Sons, Red Bank, New 

 Jersey, has been purchased by George H. Brush, Inc., tire dealer, 

 of 30 Central avenue, Newark. The Brown concern is the oldest 

 tire company in Red Bank. 



George F. Armstrong, president of The Armstrong Rubber 

 Co., Inc., Garfield, New Jersey, and New York, New York, states 

 that the factory is running on a twenty-four hour basis, at max- 

 imum capacity, and that the increased labor efficiency and reason- 

 able attitude of rubber workers will be great factors in meeting 

 the demand for tires and tubes during the coming season. 



AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING MATERIALS 



The provisional program has been issued for the twenty-fourth 

 annual meeting of the American Society for Testing Materials to 

 be held at Asbury Park, New Jersey, June 20 to 24, 1921. Among 

 the reports to be presented at this meeting, of special interest to 

 rubber manufacturers, are those by Committee D-11 on Rubber 

 Products, and by Committee D-13 on Textiles. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN RHODE ISLAND 

 By Our Regular Correspondent 



WHILE the National India Rubber Co. at Bristol and the 

 Alice Mill of the Woonsocket Rubber Co. at Woonsocket, 

 resimied operations May 9 on a limited and curtailed schedule, 

 there is comparatively little change in the industrial situation 

 among the manufacturing rubber plants of Rhode Island from 

 what there was a month ago. A general spirit of caution and 

 conservatism is apparent and with few orders coming to book 

 there is a decided uncertainty as to how long even the limited 

 schedule now in force may continue. 



At the plant of the Davol Rubber Co. there is considerable 

 more regularity from the fact that its staple lines are in general 

 demand at all seasons of the year, especially its druggists' and 

 medicinal supplies. The large five-story brick building that 

 forms a portion of the Davol estate has been entirely vacated 

 by former tenants in various lines of manufacturing business, and 

 the entire building is being altered and prepared for purposes of 

 the Davol company. It is understood that among the first de- 

 partments that will be removed thereto will be the storage and 

 shipping sections, which will afford greatly increased facilities 

 at the factory plant for manufacturing purposes. The building 

 is at the southwest corner of 'Point and Richmond streets, al- 

 most opposite the Point street frontage of the factory plant, and 



