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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



TuLY 1, 1921 



employed by the Goodrich company in 1887. The first-named of 

 the two is now manager of one of the plant departments. The 

 third brother, Ira. has been with the company for twenty-five 

 years. These men have scon many changes in their particular 

 industry, while their united record, in years, represents almost 

 a century of service. 



Among the resignations from the Goodricli company is that 

 of E. P. Rowen, formerly manager of Diamond tire sales, and 

 also that of M. E. Fassnacht. formerly service manager. 



E. C. Tibbitts, who for twent>-four years has been connected 

 with Goodrich advertising, has accepted a position with the \Vm. 

 H. Rankin Co., Chicago, Illinois, as central western manager. 

 Mr. Tibbitts will have i>ersonal charge of the Goodrich account 

 as handled by the Rankin company, and will have headquarters in 

 Akron. 



F. O. Slutz, formerly manager of railroad sales, has been trans- 

 ferred to the tire department and will report to H. C. .Miller, 

 director of tire sales. 



UASON ISStJES FAVORABLE REPOET 



The Mason Tire & Rubber Co., Kent. Ohio, a short distance 

 from Akron, has issued a series of reports regarding its business 

 which have the most optimistic tone of any statements given out 

 in .^kron for several months. While the company did more than 

 $7,000,000 worth of business last year, expectations based upon 

 the present output of the plant, together with its output history 

 thus far this year, leads officials of the company to believe that 

 business this year will be in excess of $10,000,000. The balance 

 sheet as of the first of May showed quick current assets of 

 $3,340,000 as against current liabilities of $433,000, being a better 

 than "four to one" condition. 



While production of cord tires during the first weeks in 

 June was larger than at any time in the history of the company, 

 it is expected that the final figures on June production will be at 

 least 100 per cent larger than production during the same month 

 last year, when business as a whole was at peak. Sales for May 

 of this year were in excess of those of May of last year. It is 

 believed that by the end of the present month the company will 

 have worked off the last pound of high-priced rubber and will 

 begin July on rubber which costs an average of 16 cents a pound. 

 Its fabric is manufactured in its own mills at Kent and conse- 

 quently the company was not caught with large fabric commit- 

 ments last year. 



The company has practically stopped the manufacture of fabric 

 tires except in Ford sizes, having turned attention primarily to 

 the manufacture of cords. The same action has been taken as 

 regards the manufacture of tubes. The company makes only a 

 jet black tube, having discontinued entirely the production of 

 grey and red tubes. At the present time arrangements are 

 being made to discontinue the manufacture of a plain solid tire 

 and to concentrate on cu.shion and slotted tyi)es of heavy duty 

 solid tires. 



The first part of July will probably see the absorption of the 

 Mason Plantations Co. by The Mason Tire & Rubber Co. com- 

 pleted. The stockholders of the plantations company were given 

 the privilege of converting their stock into rubber stock, and 

 although no announcement has yet been made it is generally 

 believed that the transfer suggestion has met with universal 

 favor among the stockholders. When the amalgamation has been 

 carried through, approximately $4,000,000 of liquid assets will be 

 added to the company. 



GOODYEAR ANNOUNCES NEW TIRE PRODUCTION SCHEDULE 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. announces that the new 

 production schedule will be 26,000 tires a day, and as soon as 

 man can be obtained, the factory will be placed on a basis of three 

 eight-hour shifts. This is due, not only to increases in dealers' 

 orders, which have continued to grow for the past three weeks, 

 but to unexpected increases in orders from automobile manu- 

 facturers. 



When it was announced that 1,500 men were wanted imme- 

 diately at the Goodyear factory it was believed to be impossible 

 to find so many experienced men in the city. Goodyear started 

 to rehire former employes the third week in June and the an- 

 nouncement that at least 1,500 more were needed came on June 

 23, following a conference between factory officials and E. G. 

 W'ilmcr, the new president. Mr. Wilmer startled those who did! 

 not already know of the increase in orders by stating that it 

 will soon be possible to go to 25.000 or 26,000 tires a day. 



Goodyear's rapid recuperation is primarily due to the fact 

 that during the worst days of the depression advertising was con- 

 tinued as before; and that the salesmen were recently placed 

 upon a new working basis whereby they cither produced results 

 or resigned. 



MILLER AUD FIRESTONE PLAN INCREASED PRODUCTION 



Although the same increases are not e-xpected from the other 

 compsp.ies it is known that Miller is contemplating an increase 

 and Firestone has placed the small-tire production department on 

 a basis of two nine-hour shifts. 



-Although it had been anticipated that automobile manufacturers' 

 commitments at the rubber plants would he decreased w-ith the 

 reported decrease in automobile sales, yet this has not developed 

 and in some instances facts have been just to the contrary. 

 This is reflected in the orders to the Firestone Tire & Rubber 

 Co.'s rim plant, which is now being operated at two-thirds 

 capacity with 350 men. The plant makes more than 60 per cent 

 of the automobile rims of the country, and during the past week 

 the increased production at some of the automobile centers, espe- 

 cially at Flint, Michigan, has been definite!}' reflected at the 

 rim plant. 



AKRON NOTES 



.\ price reduction on all types of truck tires is announced by 

 The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., effective on June 20. These 

 reductions will complete the stabilization of tire prices through 

 tlie entire Goodyear line, following the reduction in price on all' 

 kinds of automobile casings and tubes announced last month. 

 There will be an average reduction of 23!/4 per cent on 6, 7, and' 

 8-inch cord pneumatic truck tires. The reduction on all Good- 

 year S.V. solid tires will average 12 per cent, and on all cushion 

 tires there will be an average reduction of 10 per cent. The 

 prices on pneumatic truck tires over eight inches, and on the 

 new All-Wcather tread solid tires have also been reduced to some 

 extent. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. board of control has been- 

 replaced by George E. Einbecker. of Milwaukee. Wisconsin, who 

 has assumed the oftice of comptroller under the new management. 

 In the reorganization Shelby A. Falor, four years a member of 

 the board of control, resigned and has become president of the 

 Universal Drug Co., of Akron. W. D. Shilts, formerly a mem- 

 ber of the board, has become assistant secretary of the company 

 and H. B. Hamlin and W. D. Oburn, other members of the board, 

 remain with the company. 



I'Vank R. Griffin has been appointed assistant to the manager 

 of the advertising department, in the division of domestic adver- 

 tising, of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 



Edward G. Wilmer, president of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber 

 Co., has leased the A. H. Marks homestead in .-\kron and wilt 

 live there for the summer with his New York business associates. 



R. E. Wollcott, assistant credit manager, and Charles H. 

 Waterman, purchasing agent, of The Miller Rubber Co., have 

 resigned. 



C. E. Wagner, export manager of The Miller Rubber Co., 

 attended the International Trade Conference at Mexico City, begin- 

 ning June 20, in the interests of his firm. He was also a delegate 

 of the export managers' group of the Cleveland Chamber of 

 Commerce, and of the Akron Chamber of Commerce. 



