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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



November 1, 1920 



Brandt northern district manayor, with headquarters at Chicago. 

 He will have charge of sales in eastern Montana, North and 

 South Dakota, \\ isconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana, and 

 Minnesota. 



The National Association of Waste Material Dealers, Inc., 

 will hold its ne.\t quarterly meeting at Chicago, December 8 

 and 9. The secretary is arranging for a special car from New 

 York and meml}ers planning to attend the meeting are urged 

 to reserve accommodations early. 



The Prudential Tire & Rubber Co., 813 Hartford Building, 

 Chicago, Illinois, has recently purchased the plant and equip- 

 ment of The Great Republic Tire & Rubber Manufacturing 

 Co. located at Mc.\lester, Oklahoma, and will operate this 

 modern factory at capacity. W. H. Owens, who was presi- 

 dent and general manager of The Great Republic Tire & 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., has been retained by the Prudential 

 as vice-president and operating manager of the Oklahoma plant 



Organized less than a year ago, the Prudential Tire & Rubber 

 Co. has acquired three plants, the Boone tire plants at Chip- 

 pewa Falls, Wisconsin, and Sycamore, Illinois, and the Great 

 Republic plant here mentioned, and has also purchased a large 

 tract at Erie, Pennsylvania, where they will build a modern 

 factory early in the spring. Fred .\. Seiberling, formerly of the 

 Newcastle Rubber Co., is president of the Prudential, and asso- 

 ciated with him is his brother, .A.. G. Seiberling, vice-president 

 of the Haynes .\utomobile Co. 



THE RUBBER TRADE ON THE PACIFIC COAST 

 By Our Regular Correspondent 



' I 'HE F.\CTCRiES on the Facitic Coast that make tires and other 

 ■^ rubber goods are busier than ever. Two of the larger mills, 

 the Pioneer Rubber Works, San Francisco, and the Goodyear 

 Tire & Rubber Company of California, Los Angeles, are steadily 

 adding to their working force and expanding the scope of their 

 operations. .A very optimistic view of trade for many months 

 to come is taken by rubber manufacturers and selling agencies 

 on the entire western coast. Three factors referred to as promot- 

 ing the generally hopeful spirit are : the unusually successful 

 season experienced by the thousands of big fruit raisers, who are 

 counted upon as liberal customers by tire makers and dealers : the 

 rise in railroad freight rates, which is perceptibly aiding truck- 

 portation ; and the recent reduction in price uf some of the well- 

 known makes of automobiles. Tire repairmen also feel very con- 

 fident that the factors noted will stimulate their business, and 

 better sales of tread gum and other repair stock are reported 

 by mills and supply houses. 



LOS ANGELES NOTES 



Rubber ll^urcd prominently at the National Tractor Show 

 at Verdugo Woodlands, near Los .\ngcles, recently. -Among 

 the notable exhibits were belting for tractors, gasoline hose, 

 steam hose, hose for spray rigs, packing for gas engines, for 

 steam and cold water, and automobile radiator connections. 

 The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. of California, made the 

 principal display in these lines. The show was the largest of 

 its kind ever staged in the West. 100,000 square feet of space 

 being used for over 400 different exhibits. 



Flans have been perfected whereby Los Angeles banks will 

 lend cotton growers $7,500,000 for picking and ginning the 1920 

 crop on warehouse receipts, instead of personal credits, which 

 will greatly relieve growers who have been unable to finance 

 their crops beyond the harvest period. The sum of $1,000,000 

 was made available on October 15. 



Business is reported by the several branches of the United 

 States Rubber Co. on the coast to be away ahead of last year, 

 and additions are being constantly made to the sales forces in the 

 Pacific slope cities. The various branch managers are confident 

 of a large increase in business for 1921. 



Koy R. Meads, president and general manager of the Pacific 

 Rubber Co., Los .Angeles, has gone to Racine, Wisconsin, for a 

 conference with the Horseshoe Tire Co., which concern his com- 

 pany represents on the Pacific Coast. 



C. L. Reely, advertising and salesmanager of the Oldficld Tire 

 Co., Cleveland, Ohio, has been visiting Hess & Sackett, Inc., Los 

 .Angeles distributers of Barney Oldfield's products. 



Over 100 newspaper editors and publishers of Southern Cali- 

 fornia were recent guests of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 

 of California, and the scribes were much impressed with the mag- 

 nitude of the plant in Los Angeles, the machinery used in tire- 

 making, and the cotton mill, where cotton spinning and weaving 

 are for the first time conducted on a large scale on the Coast. The 

 Goodyear company has 2,200 men at work anl the tire output 

 has risen to 2,300 a day, with 2,.500 tubes da ly as well as a lot 

 of automobile accessories. September sales were reported the 

 largest in the company's history. .An enterprise "on the side" is 

 tlie Goodyear dirigible passenger-carrying line between Los -An- 

 geles and Santa Catalina Island, a 39-mile trip made daily by the 

 Pony Blimp in sixty minutes. 



-\d()lf Schleicher, president of the Samson Tire & Rubber Cor- 

 poration, Los -Angeles, recently spent t\\e weeks studying the big 

 tire factories of the Middle West. The Samson company claims 

 the honor of having produced the first cord tires on the Coast. 



SAN BIEGO 



The new warehouse of the Spreckcls "Savage'' Tire Co., 

 San Diego, is nearly ready for use. The building is 670 feet 

 long and its walls and roof are wholly zinc-covered. It will 

 have ten loading doors connecting with a spur of railroad track. 

 The "Savage'' factory reports business as excellent, and the 

 company is now considering plans for largely increasing the 

 output. 



SAN FRANCISCO AND SACRAMENTO NOTES 



The Plant Rubber & .Asbestos Works, Inc.. 537 Brannan 

 street, San Francisco, California, has taken over the factory and 

 business formerly operated by the Merle Magnesia Manufac)- 

 turing Co. Magnesia and magnesia pipe and boiler covering are 

 i)eing produced at present and the company plans to offer car- 

 bonate of magnesia to the rubber trade in a short time. Flans 

 have already been drawn for an extension to the plant to pro- 

 vide additional space. The officers of the Plant organization 

 are : Sydney L. Plant, president and manager ; Charles A. 

 Wright, vice-president ; Elliott H. Pierce, secretary ; George J. 

 Sivers, treasurer. The company also distributes the products 

 of the Boston Belting Co., Boston, Massachusetts. 



The Cleveland Rubber Mold Foundry & Equipment Co., 

 Cleveland, Ohio, is planning to erect a branch plant on the 

 Pacific Coast, in or near Sacramento, California. 



-A novel display at the recent state fair in Sacramento, Cali- 

 fornia, was the power conservation exhibit of the California 

 Electrical & Mechanical Engineering Co., in which was demon- 

 strated the correct use of rubber belting in operating pumps, 

 cream separators, washing machines, and other farm machinery 

 by power. -A unique feature was a threshing machine operated 

 by a 150-foot, 8-inch, 5-ply endless belt, which continuously 

 crushed brick-bats as easily as it threshed wheat. 



W. S. Gelette, sales manager for the Rubber Products Co., 

 Barberton, Ohio, who visited the Coast recently, has appointed 

 V. W. Cunningham branch manager for San Francisco, suc- 

 ceeding Stewart Slosson. 



The Howe Rubber Co., factory branch for Howe tires and 

 tubes, has moved from 1214 Sutter street to larger quarters at 

 824 Ellis street, San Francisco. 



SOUTHWESTERN NOTES 



Long-Staple cotton growers in California and .Arizona are 

 worried at the slow market for the commodity and the fact that 

 Egypt is looking to the United Slates as an outlet for thousands 



