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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



Seitember 1, 1921 



Indications are, however, that prospects for the future are be- 

 ginning to look brighter. The work which the company is do- 

 ing at the present time is for the most part from the smaller 

 factories. 



The Akron Machine, Mold, Tool & Die Co., Akron, which has 

 been operating for the last year, because of its comparatively 

 small capacity has found sufficient business to operate day and 

 night for the larger part of the last two months. A large portion 

 of its work is for rubber companies near rather than in .-Kkron. 



The I. H. Dexter Co., Inc., Goshen, New York, has named the 

 Akron Standard Mold Co., Akron, Ohio, its exclusive rep- 

 resentative. This will necessitate the addition by the Akron com- 

 pany of the following products : bead wrapping, flap making and 

 curing machinery. Andrew J. Fleiter is vice-president and gen- 

 eral mana.ger and J. C. Clinefclter is sales manager of the Akron 

 Standard Mold Co. 



MISCELLANEOUS OHIO NOTES 



M. M. Whorley, who has been recently appointed sales manager 

 of The Columbus Tire & Rubber Co., Columbus, Ohio, has filled 

 various positions of responsibility in connection with the tire in- 

 dustry. Beginning in 1912 as a salesman for the Firestone com- 

 pany, he became manager of this company's Syracuse, New York, 

 branch, and later was appointed assistant sales manager of The 

 Mason Tire & Rubber Co. at Kent, Ohio. This position he held 

 until his present appointment with the Columbus company. It is 

 reported that this concern is daily producing 200 cord and fabric 

 tires and 400 tubes. 



On July 16 last The Ohio State Rubber Tire Co., Port Clinton, 

 Ohio, went into receivership in equity in the United States Dis- 

 trict Court. William J. Slater, of Akron, Ohio, was appointed 

 receiver. 



The Waukon Rubber Co., capitalized at $500,000, and recently 

 organized in Elyria, Ohio, will take over the assets and liabilities 

 of the Hill Rubber Heel Co. The new company will construct a 

 modern plant to manufacture air-cushion heels, automobile tubes 

 and dipped goods. Officers and directors of the new company are : 

 W. R. Huntington, president; O. S. DoUison, vice-president! J. \V. 

 Dcwhurst, secretary and general manager ; and J. A. Ebert, 

 treasurer. 



William .•\. Cuff, secretary of The Mason Tire & Rubber Co., 

 has been named a member of the board of trustees of the Kent 

 Nonual School, a state institution at Kent, Ohio. He has been 

 active in politics for many years. 



The Mason Tire & Rubber Co., of Kent, Ohio, reports that on 

 the basis of 24 hours a day operation, the plant is turning out 

 more than 2,000 tires a day, and that the new Ford size tire 

 selling for $13.50, which was recently placed upon the market, is 

 oversold for the remainder of the year. At the present time the 

 company reports sales increases of approximately 50 per cent 

 in value over the same time last year, while the sales in units will 

 run in many instances more than four to one as compared with 

 the saiue period last year. Production of truck tires, both pneu- 

 iriatic and solid, are reported as increasing steadily, and, owing to 

 the fact that consumers and dealers are buying only current re- 

 quirements, the officials of the company look for business to hold 

 up well throughout August and probably into September. The 

 company recently entered into the original equipment field. 



JUDGES APPOINTED FOR FIRESTONE SCHOLARSHIP 

 COMPETITION 



The best essays on "Good Roads and Highway Transport" 

 which have been submitted during the last six weeks by high 

 school pupils in the Harvey S. Firestone competition will be pre- 

 sented to the following judges for final decision: A. N. Johnson, 

 dean of the department of engineering, University of Maryland, 

 chairman ; Harford Powel, Jr., Editor of Collier's Weekly ; C. H. 

 Huston, assistant secretary of the Department of Commerce and 

 president of the Lee Highway Association. 



THE BUCKEYE RUBBER PRODUCTS CO. 



The Buckeye Rubber Products Co., an Ohio corporation or- 

 ganized for the manufacture of mechanical rubber goods, began 

 manufacturing operations last month, at its plant in Willoughby, 

 Ohio. 



Tlie main factory building is a one-story brick and steel struc- 

 ture, 180 by 350 feet, to which is joined a two-story building, 

 50 by 150 feet, containing offices, shipping room, time-keeper's 

 office, first-aid room and laboratory. The buildings were orig- 

 inally built for the Bcn-Hur Motor Co. but were not used for 

 industrial purposes other than a government experimental plant 

 for the development of poison gases during the war. 



The land and buildings were purchased by The Buckeye Rub- 

 ber Products Co. in January, 1920. and since then the plant has 

 been arranged to meet the requirements of mechanical goods 



New Pl.wt of The Buckeye Rubber Product^ Co., 

 Willoughby, Ohio 



manufacture. Equipment has been installed for the manufacture 

 of belting, matting, mats, molded goods, heels, friction tape, tubing, 

 sheet packing and solid truck tires. 



The Polack Tyre & Rubber Co. was acquired by the Buckeye 

 company last year and its manufacturing equipment transferred 

 to the Buckeye plant where Polack solid truck tires continue to 

 be made. 



The Buckeye Rubber Products Co. manufactures only the high- 

 est quality of rubber goods, and although a new-coiuer in the 

 rubber manufacturing field, the personnel, both executive and 

 manufacturing, comprises men of long and successful experience 

 in their respective departments. The officers are : Charles H. 

 Roth, president and general manager ; Webster Norris, vice-presi- 

 dent and technologist; James M. Mackay, secretary and sales 

 manager ; William E. Marks, treasurer ; Edwin L. Stimson, fac- 

 tory manager. 



WARN AGAINST A. E. F. TIRES 



Akron tire companies have issued warnings to their dealers 

 and to tire users generally to beware of American army tires 

 which have been brought back from Europe and which have been 

 placed on the American market. Because of exposure to weather 

 for a long time many of the tires have deteriorated and in many 

 instances the expected service can not be obtained from them. 

 The number of these kinds of tires now on the market is very 

 large, it is stated, although definite figures are not available. 



EGYPTIAN COTTON FAILS IN TEXAS 

 It has been found that Egyptian cotton cannot be satisfactorily 

 grown in Texas, according to a report recently made by the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, Washington. D. C. 

 Careful and long-continued experiments with Egyptian cotton 

 have proved that it is more susceptible to diseases and more 

 exposed to weevil injury than other varieties. Durango cotton, 

 however, appears to flourish in some parts of Texas, and attempts 

 to raise this would seem to promise better success than anv 

 further attempts to grow the first-mentioned variety. 



