Jfi.Y 1, 1921 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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milled and compounded at the Howe rubber works in Xew 

 Brunswick, New Jersey. The factory is particularly well- 

 ventilated and well-lighted. Riverside was selected because of 

 its particularly non-humid climate as compared with other 

 southern cities near the Coast. The rubber on the molds dries 

 well and (|uickly in the warm, dry air ; and only once, one day 

 last summer, when the temperature was 112 degrees F., did the 

 workmen have any troulile with the dippings, and then a large 

 amount of finished stock stuck together and was ruined. 



THE RUBBER TRADE ON THE PACIFIC COAST 

 I5y Our Ref!ular Correspondent 



Mii)-YE.\R conditions in the rubber trade generally on the 

 Pacific Coast are very encouraging, according to many rep- 

 resentative manufacturers and dealers. Tires are going well, due 

 not only to very favorable climatic conditions, an improved tone 

 in all commercial circles, an increasing influx of tourists bringing 

 their own cars, highway improvement on a continually broadening 

 scale, and last, but not least, more aggressive salesmanship. 



Mid-western and eastern tire makers are paying more attention 

 than ever to the coastal territory and are establishing new agen- 

 cies or strengthening old ones at strategic points near the Pacific 

 and in the big hinterland. 



Much relief was felt by the dealers in mechanical rubber goods 

 at the recent settlement of the prolonged trouble in the building 

 trades in San Francisco, where the strikers accepted without re- 

 serve a wage cut averaging lYz per cent. Not only will this mean 

 much directly to rubber men in the Bay City, but indirectly, it 

 is figured, the efTect will be very salutary in other big industrial 

 centers on the Coast, w'hich are invariably affected by the strong 

 union labor movements of San Francisco. 



Rubber footwear is going strong, wholesale dealers say, and 

 their main anxiety is to get supplies. Their season runs to 

 September 1. Rubber clothing has been in good demand in the 

 northern district, and bathing goods have been selling particularly 

 well in the southern section. Druggists' sundries find a steady 

 sale ; various extension plans of hydro-electric and public utility 

 companies have revived dealings noticeably in insulated w ire ; 

 and trade in reclaimed rubl)er shows a steady trend with slightly 

 better prices. 



SAN FRANCISCO NOTES 



Hirsch-Blum Co., 1135 Van Ness avenue, San Francisco, has 

 been appointed northern California distributer of Kenyon cord 

 tires and tubes. 



James D. Horan, manager of the Los .Angeles l)ranch, was 

 a recent guest of the Pioneer Rubber Mills management in San 

 Francisco. The Pioneer mills, which are in Pittsburg, Califor- 

 nia, continue to be one of the busiest rubber concerns on the 

 Coast and overtime is the rule rather than the exception in sev- 

 eral departments. A particularly good demand is reported for 

 mechanicals, due to much activity in building lines in various 

 Pacific states. 



Joseph Tansc}', of the Tansey-Crowe Co., 1233 Van Xess ave- 

 nue, San Francisco, vulcanizer and distributer of Pennsylvania 

 vacuum cup tires, has recently been attending a conference of 

 dealers at the factory at Jeannette, Pennsylvania. 



.Automobile registration for the state of California for Feb- 

 ruary, March, .^pril and May, 1921, shows a total of 540,339 

 passenger cars, 30,757 trucks, 2.456 trailers, and 14,427 motor- 

 cycles. Figures for the same months in 1920 were 421,982, 29,- 

 326, 1,099, and 16,243. This state, like many other sections 

 of the country, therefore had a loss in motorcycles, but had a 

 big gain in other vehicles. Superintendent of the State Motor 

 \'ehicle Department, Charles J. Chenu, estimates that California 

 will have 675,000 motor vehicles registered by the end of the year. 



LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY 



"Buy a spare" is the slogan which the allied California auto- 

 mobile trades associations intend to use to influence the sale of 

 possibly 300,000 more tires in the State. .According to a recent 

 checking up of cities in the southern part of the State, less than 

 46 per cent of the automobiles carry a spare tire and even a 

 smaller percentage have fitments for carrying a "spare." 



.As there are nearly 600,000 motor cars in California, the tire 

 dealers reckon on about 300,000 possible purchasers of "spares." 

 Should but one-third the amount be purchased, it is remarked 

 that this would be a gain to the rubber trade worth working 

 for and worthy of the emulation of tire makers and dealers 

 throughout the other forty-seven states. 



Some concerns handling rubber and rubberized goods are doing 

 extra well. Weinstock & Nichols, Los Angeles agents for the 

 Gould storage battery which utilizes not only hard rubber cells 

 liut also rubber-armored (impregnated) wooden separators, re- 

 port last -April business four and a half times that of a year 

 ago and May's total nearly as large as April. 



The Maxon Tire Co., Los Angeles County agent for Thermoid 

 tires, is extending its operations, having leased another store at 

 Tenth and South Main streets, Los .Angeles. 



-A. E. Bush has been appointed manager of the Tire Company 

 of California, specializing on Kelly-Springfield tires, at 1201 South 

 Hill street, Los Angeles. 



The Keaton Tire & Rubber Co., 1337 South Flower street, 

 Los Angeles, is distributing to dealers a book and chart on rim 

 equipment that is unique and useful. 



.A. F. Osterloh, vice-president and general manager of the 

 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of California, is chairman 

 of the manufacturing committee of the Chamber of Commerce 

 of Los Angeles, which committee, comprising eighteen represen- 

 tative business men of the city, is making elaborate preparations 

 for a Buyers' Week to be held from August 8 to 13, inclusive. 

 The Union Terminal Co. has ofifered the use of 200,000 square 

 feet of floor space free in its new building, on East Seventh 

 street. The committee hopes to have nearly $100,000 available 

 for advertising and for entertaining possible buyers of rubber 

 and many other Los Angeles products. 



G. S. Richardson has been licensed in Santa Ana, California, 

 to use the name and method of the Process Rubber Co., 5918 

 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, in infusing new life into tires 

 and tubes, a process described at length in The Indi.\ Rubber 

 World, June 1, 1921. 



The Elaterite Varnish & Rul)ber Co., SSfh and Alameda streets, 

 Los Angeles, was chartered July 7, 1919, with capital stock con- 

 sisting of 2,500,000 shares of stock at $1 par value. Donald H. 

 MacDonald is secretary. 



The big brick factory of the United States Compression Inner 

 Tube Co., at Burbank, California, is being hurried to com- 

 pletion, and operations, the directors believe, will be started early 

 in the autumn. The company intends to use this plant to supply 

 the Pacific Coast trade, as its Tulsa, Oklahoma, factory serves 

 the Mid- West, and its Kittanning, Pennsylvania, factory supplies 

 the company's puncture-proof inner tubes and casings to Eastern 

 buyers. 



Tire dealers on the Coast remarked a perceptible increase in 

 sales following the recent cut in the price of gasoline from 27 

 to 25 cents. 



W. V. Goar has been appointed to succeed H. C. Edelman, 

 resigned, as manager in charge of sales at the Los Angeles 

 branch of the Pennsylvania Rubber Co., Jeannette, Pennsylvania, 

 with headquarters at 950 South Main street, Los Angeles. He 

 formerly represented the Pemisylvania company in Seattle. 



