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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



September I, 1921 



to be valued at $250,000, while liabilities, largely for raw material, 

 are estimated at $470,000. 



Encouraging reports from tlie Meade Rubber Co., Stoughton, 

 Massachusetts, state that the company's output is being materially 

 increased, which necessitated the installation of a 500 h.p. engine 

 and additional presses. Officials of the company claim that busi- 

 ness conditions seem to be improving, and that they are looking 

 forward to a good season. Rubber heels and rubberized fabrics 

 are the products manufactured. 



George B. Hendrick, publicity manager of The Fisk Kubl)er 

 Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, 



—I was recently appointed chairman of 



a committee organized to advertise 

 the Direct Mail and Advertising Asso- 

 ciation Convention and F.x])osition 

 which will be held at Springfield, 

 Massachusetts, October 25-28, inclusive. 

 Mr. Hendrick, who is president of the 

 Pulilicity Club of Springfield, has lieeii 

 in advertising and publicity work 

 tliroughout practically all his business 

 career, and was especially active during 



tlic war. He was appointed publicity 



George E. He.xdrick manager for The Fisk Rubber Co. 

 about si.x years ago, and has an ex- 

 celent record of achievement to his credit. 



With the production of nearly 10,000 casings and 13,000 tubes 

 daily. The Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, is operating at 90 

 per cent of its peak capacity. The August production schedule 

 called for 225,000 tires, an increase of 32 per cent over the July 

 output of 170,000 tires, which in tiuii represented an increase of 

 nearly 50 per cent over June. 



Operations will begin again in September at the plant of the 

 Monatiquot Rubber Works Co., South Braintree, Massachusetts. 

 Since the fire in February last, new and improved equipment has 

 been added and many changes made. Several new products of 

 interest to the trade are to be manufactured, and will continue to 

 sustain the good reputation this company's product has' already 

 made. The oflicers are: James H. Stedman, president and treas- 

 urer ; Merton .\. Turner, vice-president and sales manager ; and 

 Benjamin .Ayer, general factory manager. 



The board of directors of the Res-Pro Industries, Inc.. Boston. 

 Massachusetts, recently held an important meeting when plans for 

 the further financing of their organization were discussed. James 

 J. Clifford, president and director, has resigned, and Luther S. 

 Xewell, formerly general manager of the Anchor Webbing Co., 

 Pawtucket, Rhode Island, has been elected president. Recently 

 elected directors are : William H. Gidley, formerly treasurer and 

 general manager of Greene & Daniels Manufacturing Co., Paw- 

 tucket, Rhode Island; and Howard E. Burdick, of Woonsocket, 

 Rhode Island, president of the Burdick-Clarke Co., of Providence. 

 The company's offices will be removed from Boston to Canton, 

 Massachusetts, where the factory is located. 



The Converse Rubber Shoe Co., Maiden, resumed operations 

 August 8, following the customary two weeks' vacation shut- 

 down. Enough goods have been sold to keep the factory run- 

 ning at 80 per cent capacity until December 1. President Con- 

 verse states that the first quarter of the firm's fiscal year ended 

 July 1 was the best the company has ever had, and he has every 

 reason to believe the other nine months will be as good. The 

 coupon note issue of $285,000 maturing on .\ugust 1, was paid 

 on that date. 



Sales of the Ilond Rubber Co., Watertown. for the first six 

 months of this year were almost equal to those for the first 

 half of the year 1919, although some $5,000,000 behind the record- 

 breaking figures for the same period of 1920. The tire depart- 

 ment is running to full capacity and canvas footwear business 

 has been better than was anticipated. 



Harrison S. Royce has succeeflel M. G. Hopkins as purchas- 

 ing ?gcnt of the Boston Woven Flose & Ru'uber Co., Cambridge. 



The Genuine Rubber Co., Saugus, a Massachusetts corporacion 

 with a capital stock of $50,000, consisting of 2.000 shares of 

 $25 par value, was incorporated July 18 for the manufacture of 

 rubber heels and soles, automobile step plates and other rubber 

 specialties. Gustav E. Dahlen is president, Ernest L. Castls, 

 \icc-pres'dcnt and Paul V. Lindstrom, treasurer. The new firm 

 has leased part of the "Made-Leather" factory in Saugus and 

 has installed the necessary equipment. 



WORCESTER TIRE FABRIC CO.S NEW MILL 



Production has been started at the new mill of the Worcester 

 Tire Fabric Co., Worcester, the capacity of which is 4,000.000 

 pounds of fabric a year. The building is of steel and concrete 

 and has four manufacturing floors and one storage floor with a 

 total floor space of 50,000 square feet. 



All machinery is operated by individual motor drive requiring 

 a total of 600 horsepower. On the two upper floors are ring 

 twisters for the preparation of five-ply strand twist. On the 

 second floor are special Brownell gear-driven flier cord twisters 

 which combine the three strands into the finished cord. The re- 

 sult of this process is maximum strength without variance of 

 twist. On the first floor is the weaving room. It is equipped with 

 cord fabric looms with attachments and refinements of the com- 

 pany's own design and construction. 



The Worcester Tire Fabric Co., was incorporated in 1913 in 

 Massachusetts. C. R. Brownell and A. D. Sykes, both of \\'or- 

 cester, are president, and treasurer and manager respectively, 

 and H. J. Adams, Akron representative, is vice-president. The 

 board of directors is composed of the officers together with G. 

 L. Brownell, of Worcester. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN OHIO 



By Our Regular Correspondent 



AKRON TIRE PRODUCTION APPROACHING NORMAL 



WHILE the tire departments of the Akron rubber factories are 

 operating at better than 80 per cent of normal, making 75,- 

 000 tires a day, the other lines of rubber goods continue to show 

 improvement. Reports from the druggists' sundries departments 

 indicate that July showed 25 per cent increase in sales over the 

 previous month, due largely to sales of rubber bands, hot-water 

 bottles, and other sundries, which indicate that business in the 

 fall will be fairly good. The present is more or less between sea- 

 sons and the fact that increases are registered is looked upon 

 as an indication of a turn for the better. Mechanical goods sales 

 continue to show some increases. Cement and concrete manu- 

 facturers are operating at peak, and manufacturers of washing 

 machinery and sweepers are operating at normal. Sales indicate 

 that packers, paper manufacturers, sugar refiners and many other 

 lines of industry are purchasing rublier supplies for replacements 

 to put their plants into operation in the very near future. One 

 sales manager of mechanical goods believes that the tide has 

 definitely turned and a better tone is clearly marked in the present 

 situation. On the whole the mechanical goods departments await 

 the improvements in the steel industry and in the railroad sit- 

 uation. Footwear sales continue as well as can be expected at 

 this time of the year and indications are becoming clearer that a 

 seasonable fall will mean 100 per cent operation of these depart- 

 ments by the first of the coming year. The reclaiming of rub- 

 ber remains dormant because of the low price of crude rubber. 

 It is reported that practically every rublier company in .Akron, 

 with the exception of the large factories which were caught with 

 heavy commitments, are buying tire fabric and the larger com- 

 panies have ordered in large quantities shipment of material con- 

 tracted for. Lower prices are not looked for during the re- 

 mainder of the year, despite the large hold-over cotton crop in 

 the South. Buying of fabric throughout the country, as in .'\kron, 

 is confined to spot orders with demands for immediate delivery. 



