January 1, 1921 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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The Chicago meeting of the S. A. E., to be held at the Hotel 

 Morrison, February 2, 1921, will be devoted chiefly to truck 

 design, followed by a dinner in the evening. 



The Columbus meeting, to be held at the Hotel Deshler, Febru- 

 ary 10, 1921, will be devoted to farm power engineering and 

 tractor design, with a dinner in the evening. 



TIRE AND RIM DIVISION OF THE S. A. E. 



On Novcmbor 22, the Tire and Rim and the Truck Divisions of 

 the Society of Automotive Engineers held a joint meeting in 

 Cleveland at which there was discussed the advisability of revising 

 the present S. A. E. standard for pneumatic tires for passenger 

 cars and motor trucks so as to include, with the exception of the 

 30 by 3J4 and 31 by 4-inch clincher tires, only straight-side tires 

 having 24-inch rim-seat diameters in the 31 by 314, 32 by 4, 33 by 

 45^, 34 by 5, 36 by 6, 38 by 7, 40 by 8, 42 by 9, and 44 by 10-inch 

 sizes. The possibility and desirability of obtaining interchange- 

 ability of the 6, 7 and 8-inch pneumatic tire rims was also 

 discussed. 



PERSONAL MENTION 

 Owing to impaired health, Van H. Cartmell has retired as 

 president of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., New York City, and 

 Frederick A. Seaman, formerly secretary of the company, has 

 been elected his successor. Arthur Sachs, of Goldman, Sachs 

 & Co., has been elected a director. 



Joseph C. Weston has been elected president and general man- 

 ager of the Ajax Rubber Co., Inc., New York City. Mr. Weston 

 went to the Ajax company as vice-president about a year and 

 a half ago from the United States Rubber Co., \vith which or- 

 ganization and its subsidiaries he was connected in executive 

 capacities for more than twenty years. Horace DeLisser, chair- 

 man of the board of directors, had recently been filling the active 

 presidency as well. 



Charles Lyman Rand, secretary and chief chemist of the 

 Mitchell-Rand Manufacturing Co., New York City, manufacturer 

 of electrical insulation specialties, has relinquished his duties as 

 factory superintendent to devote his entire time to important 

 research work in the chemical and allied fields for his company. 

 He will be succeeded as factory superintendent by Joseph T. 

 Lawrence, chemical engineer, formerly associated with E. I. du 

 Pont de Nemours & Co. 



W. V. Logan, formerly manager of pneumatic truck tire sales 

 for the United States Tire Co., New York City, has been ap- 

 pointed manager of distributers' sales, with full charge of the 

 sale of distributer brands. Mr. Logan, who served as lieutenant 

 in the flying corps of the Navy during the war, is a native of 

 Missouri and is well known in tire circles in St. Louis and 

 throughout the country. 



The United States Tire Co., New York City, has appointed 

 C. K. Whidden, formerly manager of solid tire sales, to be 

 manager of truck tire sales, with full charge of the sales of 

 both solid and pneumatic truck tires. The rapid development 

 of truckportation makes Mr. Whidden's new position one of 

 especial importance. 



Thomas G. Richards, president and majority stockholder of the 

 Quabaug Rubber Co., North Brookfield, Massachusetts, has re- 

 signed his office and the management of the company. Mr. 

 Richards founded the B. & R. Rubber Co. fourteen years ago 

 and later reorganized it as the Quabaug Rubber Co. in which 

 he was active as president and works manager. He retires to 

 enjoy a period of well-earned rest and will doubtless in the near 

 future reenter the rubber trade in a managerial capacity. 



Thomas M. Rector, has been appointed director of the de- 

 partment of industrial chemistry of The Pease Laboratories, Inc., 

 successor to the Lederle Laboratories, 39 West 38th street, New 



York City. He was formerly in charge of the division of food 

 technology of the Institute of Industrial Research, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Anthon Berg of Christiana, Norway, who is well known in the 

 United States as an expert in balata belting and asbestos sheet 

 packing manufacture, returned to Norway last month after a brief 

 visit to Akron, Ohio. Mr. Berg is in charge of the erection of a 

 belting and packing plant for De-Erste Nederlandsche Balata 

 Drijfriemenfabriek, Delft, Holland. 



JOHN B. TUTTLE, CONSULTING CHEMIST 



JOHN B. TuTTLE, Consulting chemist, was born in Philadelphia, 

 Pennsylvania, May 25, 1882, and received his education in 

 the public schools and University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 

 1908 with the degree 

 of Bachelor of Sci- 

 ence. On leaving 

 college he joined the 

 staff of the Bureau 

 of Standards, Wash- 

 ington, District of 

 Columbia, at first 

 working on printing 

 inks, oils and gums. 

 Three years later he 

 took up rubber 

 chemistry and was 

 in charge of that de- 

 partment up to 1918, 

 when he resigned to 

 engage in chemical 

 research work for 

 the Firestone Tire & 

 Rubber Co., Akron, 

 Ohio. In 1919 he 

 was made chief 

 chemist of the Fire- 

 stone Plant No. 2, 

 but recently resigned 



John B. Tuttle 



that position to go into business for himself in New York City. 



Mr. Tuttle is an authority on rubber chemistry and is the 

 author of a number of technical articles on this subject. 



In 1911 he was appointed on the United States Navy Depart- 

 ment Committee on Rubber Goods Specifications and in the same 

 year made a member of the Joint Rubber Insulation Committee. 

 He also served on the specifications committees of the National 

 Fire Protective Association and the Society of Automotive Engi- 

 neers for gasoline hose, gasoline hose for airplanes, rubber goods 

 and balloon fabrics. 



He is secretary of the Rubber Section of the American Chemical 

 Society which he reorganized in 1916, and a member of the 

 Chemists' Club of New York and the Cosmos Club of Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



A BOOM IN RUBBER HEELS AND COMPOSITION SOLES 



One of the results to which the low price of crude rubber has 

 contributed in large measure is a boom in rubber heels and fiber 

 soles. For a time it looked as though the peak of popularity 

 in rubber-soled leather footwear had passed. The present season, 

 however, has witnessed a renewed demand for these goods, and 

 judging from the announcements of shoe manufacturers featur- 

 ing rubber heels and composite soles for both men and women, 

 all indications point to their use during the coming year on a 

 larger scale than ever. Some of the earlier productions did not 

 stand the test of wear nor hold nailing and stitching well, but 

 experience has led to better methods and compounds, and at 



