December 1, 1920 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



193 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN THE EAST AND SOUTH 

 By Our Regular Correspondent 



NEW YORK AND EASTERN NOTES 



THE Cutler-Ham.mer Manxfacturing Co., Mii.wArKEE. Wis- 

 consin, has recently acquired the property at 137th street and 

 Southern Boulevard, New York City, as an additional plant for the 

 manufacture of "Thermoplax' and "Pyroplax" molded electrical 

 insulation. The live-story building on this property has been com- 

 pletely equipped with presses for this work. When working at 

 capacity the new plant will have an output equal to the company's 

 insulation plant in Milwaukee, which has been running two shifts 

 day and night for the past three years. The New York plant 

 will take care of the company's eastern business and is in charge 

 of F. J. Boiler, formerly of the Milwaukee insulation department. 



George R. Sweeney, George W. Snififen, and Charles R. 

 Sweeney have formed a crude rubber brokerage partnership to 

 be known as Sweeney, Sniffen & Sweeney, with offices at 24 

 Stone street. New York City. 



Wallace L. Gough, india rubber, gutta percha and balata, has 

 reestablished his office at 12 State street. New York City. 



The Allen Machine Co., Erie, Pennsylvania, recently removed 

 its eastern and export department in New York City from 17 

 West 42d street to S Columbus Circle. M. A. Pearson is the 

 sales engineer in charge. 



Henry F. Lodge, the well known specialist in white barytes, 

 has become associated with the J. C. Finck Mineral Milling Co., 

 St. Louis, Missouri, and will be located with E. M. & F. Waldo, 

 eastern sales agents for the Finck company, whose offices are at 

 11 Broadway, New York City. 



Netherlands Corporation for Oversea Trade announces its 

 removal from 135 Front street to 44 Beaver street. New York 

 City. 



The .Alliance Tire Company has removed to larger quarters at 

 215 West End avenue, near 70th street. New York City. 



The forty-first annual meeting of the American Society of 

 Mechanical Engineers will be held December 7-10, 1920, at the 

 Engineering Societies Building, 29 West 39th street. New York 

 City. Transportation and its problems will be the keynote of 

 the meeting and there will be a discussion of important phases 

 by experts. 



The Tireheal Manufacturing Co., which was recently incorpo- 

 rated, has offices at 17 Battery Place, New York City. It manu- 

 factures 'Tireheal." a preparation used to heal punctures in auto- 

 mobile, motorcycle and bicycle tires. The officers are : V. S. 

 tiavito, president ; I". Troncoso, vice-president ; Javier Pina, treas- 

 urer, and David R. W. Arscott, secretary. 



The Powertown Tire Corporation, whose home office is at Buf- 

 falo, New York, has established a factory branch for the dis- 

 tribution of Powertown cord tires at 434 West Main street, 

 Waterbury, Connecticut. Spencer B. Bedell is manager of the 

 new branch. 



PENNSYLVANIA NOTES 



The Shenango Tire & Rubber Co. is erecting a plant 60 by 

 262]/i feet at Greenville, Pennsylvania, for the manufacture of 

 "Shcnco" quality test cord tires and tubes. The building will 

 be one- and two-story with basement, of concrete, brick and 

 steel fireproof construction and is intended to be one of the 

 most modem and efficient rubber plants in the country. The 

 total estimated cost, including machinery, will be $225,000. The 

 plant is expected to be ready for occupancy not later than May, 

 1921. and will have a capacity of five hundred tires and one 

 thousand tubes per day. Officers and directors of the company 

 are C. E. Shurtlifife, president and general manager; C. T. Kin- 



ney, vice-president ; W. N. Raach, secretary and treasurer ; H. J. 

 lIutT. and B. L. Eaton. 



The Wyoming Tire & Rubber Co., Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 

 has recently reorganized and has purchased the Perma-Loc Manu- 

 facturing Co. It is the company's intention to expand the busi- 

 ness of the Perma-Loc and it is now doubling its selling force. 



The Sure-Foot Heel & Rubber Co., Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 

 has been capitalized for $150,000, and incorporated under the laws 

 of Pennsylvania, to manufacture a detachable rubber heel invented 

 l)y S. F. Snyder, who is secretary and treasurer of the new cor- 

 poration. Other officers of the company are O. J. McNitt, presi- 

 dent ; H. T. Weaver, vice-president ; R. M. McKay, general 

 manager. The directors include, besides these officials, P. B. Rice, 

 W. E. Pitts and Henry Scharf, Sr. The company has a large 

 brownstone factory building situated beside the tracks of the 

 Philadelphia & Reading and Western Maryland railroads. Ma- 

 chinery has already been installed with a capacity of 200 gross 

 of heels per day, and the general manager reports a large demand. 



.Allen Tire & Rubber Co., 510 Hamilton street. -Mlentown, 

 Pennsylvania, reports that the first unit of its new plant at 

 Bachman Terrace has been completed and practically all the ma- 

 chinery installed. The second unit is under roof and will soon be 

 completed. 



The L'nited States Compression Inner Tube Co. Pittsburgh, 

 Pa., expects to have the first unit of its plant at Kittanning, 

 Pennsylvania, in operation about January 1, 1921. A large force 

 of men is at work installing the equipment which includes rubber 

 machinery of the latest type. The plant will be run by electrical 

 power, steam being used only to cure the rubber and heat the 

 plant in cold weather. The plant in Kittanning will be the largest 

 of the company's three plants when all the units are built and 

 will handle all business east of the Mississippi river. 



The United States Rubber Co. has moved its Philadelphia office, 

 sales, sample and stockrooms from its former location to 509 

 Market street, where several floors of that building are now 

 occupied. 



Plans are being prepared for a pumping station and rubber 

 cement building for the Traveler Rubber Co., Bethlehem, Penn- 

 sylvania. The company manufactures automobile tires, and re- 

 cently completed its main plant at a cost of about $150,000. 



SOUTHERN NOTES 



.\t a stockholders' meeting of The Dixie Rubber Co., 766 Ran- 

 dolph Building, Memphis, Tennessee, a new set of directors was 

 elected as follows: R. J. Williams, John H. McBee, Robert M. 

 Newton, A. B. Reese, R. E. L. Morgan, Dr. B. F. McNeal, C. B. 

 Box, Dr. R. B. Crisler and W. H. Powell. William J. Green, 

 who is assistant secretary-treasurer, reports the stockholders to 

 lie well pleased with the future prospects of the company. 



Claude Hartwell has been made special factory sales represen- 

 tative of the International India Rubber Corporation, South 

 Bend, Indiana, in charge of Indiana, Southern Ohio, Southern 

 Illinois, and the States of Kentucky and Tennessee. Mr. Hart- 

 well has a long and successful record as a tire salesman, and the 

 advantage of a close personal acquaintance with the majority of 

 tire buyers in the territory he is taking over. 



F. J. Sellers has been appointed sales representative of the 

 International India Rubber Corporation. South Bend, Indiana, 

 to cover North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, .Mabama, 

 Mississippi, and Louisiana. 



Louis dotting, general export manager of The Gordon Tire & 

 Rubber Co., Canton. Ohio, has left for a trip of several weeks 

 in Old Mexico and Cuba. Mr. Getting will establish a branch 

 of the company's export department in Mexico City, and vvill 

 return via Cuba where he will remain for some time to attend 

 to the company's increasing business in that island. 



