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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



September 1, 1921 



LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY 



Fred S. Wilson, vice-president and Pacitic Coast manager for 

 the Thermoid Rubber Co., Trenton, New Jersey, is now located 

 at 238 Marsh Strong Building, Los Angeles, California. 



The Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Co., Dayton. Ohio, has in- 

 creased the sales force of its Los Angeles branch, and has recently 

 appointed W. E. McCarthy as branch manager. Mr. McCarthy 

 was previously sales manager for the Owen Tire & Rublicr Co. 



The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co.'s Los Angeles branch is now in 

 its new quarters in the L'nion Terminal Building. Seventh and 

 .■\lameda streets. A considerable increase in warehouse room, 

 better trucking accommodation, and a Southern Pacific Railway 

 spur are some of the advantages gained by the new location. The 

 branch will deal solely with the jobbing and wholesale trade. 



The rubber industry was well represented at the Industrial and 

 Trade Exposition held during the week of .\ugust IS to 20, inclu- 

 sive, at the new L'nion Terminal Building, to mark Los Angeles' 

 promotion to tenth place in the nation's list of industrial centers. 

 Six acres of warehouse space were devoted to the exhibits, of 

 which the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of California had 

 <.-ne of the most striking. A moving picture illustrated the process 

 of tire making, and the Goodyear Textile Mills Co. made an ex- 

 hibit of tire fabrics. Vice-president A. F. Osterloh of the Good- 

 year company was chairman of the manufacturers' committee of 

 the Chamber of Commerce which sponsored the big show. 



The California Cord Tire Co., 831 West Eighth street, Los 

 Angeles, confines itself to marketing one tire, the California cord, 

 size 30 by 3'A. retailing at $20, which is made for the company by 

 the Mid-Continent Tire Manufacturing Co., Wichita, Kansas. 

 The California company is figuring on having its own plant on the 

 Coast in the near future, 



Paper mill owners^ who formerly sent their big rolls East to be 

 rubber covered, are now sending them to the Pacific Coast. The 

 West American Rubber Co., 400 Xorth .\venue 19, Los Angeles, 

 has just covered its seventh roU, one of 4,000 pounds, and will 

 shortly take on a heavier one. Some of the rolls weigh 6.000 

 pounds. The company has been doing very well with oil-pump 

 valves and various mechanicals, and has also been making, among 

 other specialties, many large rubber fishes for the motion picture 

 industry. 



SAN FRANCISCO AND VICINITY 



Pawling & Harnischfeger Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, reports 

 that its San Francisco ofiice address has been recently changed 

 from the Monadnock Building to 32 Beale street. R. M. Taylor, 

 district manager for the Pacific Coast, has his headquarters at the 

 new address. J. McFcrran Taylor is a new member of the Pacific 

 Coast sales force. 



A branch house and warehouse has been opened at both Los 

 Angeles and San Francisco by the Howe Rubber Co., Inc., Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, both under the management of C. A. Mullen. 



Gilbert E. Foy, a former salesman, has been appointed manager 

 of the San Francisco branch of The Spreckels "Savage'' Tire Co., 

 San Diego, California. 



The Pioneer Rubber Mills, Pittsburg, California, and with main 

 offices at 68-70 Sacramento street, San Francisco, is now operating 

 at full capacity its recently completed unit solely devoted to the 

 production of molded garden hose. The building is 85 by 240 

 feet, and is equipped to turn out 37,500 feet of hose daily. The 

 old molding process has been discarded and a new hydraulic press 

 has been installed that assures a practically unblemished product 

 for every 500 feet cured in the big machine. The company has 

 300 men at work, and all its departments are working to full ca- 

 pacity. 



The United States Rubber Co.'s San Francisco branch has re- 

 ceived very encouraging reports from distributers, and hose and 



tires have been running particularly strong. The general average 

 of .sales is very much better than a year ago. 



The Wellman-Scaver-Morgan Co. has made many sales of ma- 

 chinery recently to rubber mills in the coast district, and the offi- 

 cials report prospects as excellent. 



The Coast Tire & Rubber Co., which recently finished the first 

 unit of its plant at East 12th street and 48th avenue, Oakland, 

 California, besides a large output of tubes and tlaps, is making 

 140 tires daily, mostly cords, ranging from 30 by 3J/' to 40 by 8. 

 When the daily output reaches 500 the management intends to 

 begin the building of the second unit of the plant. 



SOUTHWESTERN NOTES 



The plant of the Arizona Asbestos Association at Chrysostil, 

 Arizona, which supplied considerable material to rubber manufac- 

 turers specializing in brake linings, has been closed, owing to a 

 considerable falling off in orders. Very few asbestos mines in 

 Gila county are reported to be busy, the impression being that 

 buyers have accumulated more than enough to satisfy their needs 

 for a long while. 



Plans are being considered by Arizona and California cotton 

 growers for sending their large surplus of "white gold," for which 

 they had expected a much larger demand from the rubber tire 

 and textile manufacturers, to the idle mills in Czecho-Slovakia. 

 The finished product would then be marketed in England and the 

 proceeds, less cost of weaving, etc. would accrue to the southwest- 

 ern cotton raisers. The plan was recently outlined by Charles F. 

 Wood, vice-president of the Warrant Warehouse Co., Birming- 

 ham, .Alabama, to a group of planters and bankers in Los .Angeles. 



.\n excellent exhibit of guayule, chicle, and castilloa gums was 

 made by the Government of Mexico at the recent Industrial and 

 Trade E.xposition in Los Angeles, and a strong appeal was made 

 for investment in rubber growing and manufacturing in the 

 southern republic. 



Arrangements have been completed by the Dayton Rubber Man- 

 ufacturing Co., Dayton, Ohio, for warehouse accommodations in 

 Dallas, Texas, where a full stock of tires will be carried. C. K. 

 Callaway, formerly with the Brunswick Tire & Rubber Co., Chi- 

 cago, Illinois, is in charge of the Dallas branch. 



Ford Dix II, representing the Howe Rubber Co., Inc.. Cleve- 

 land. Ohio, is now covering Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. 



NORTHWESTERN NOTES 



The Olympic Tire & Rubber Co. announces a change of ad- 

 dress from 217 Lyon Building, Seattle, to the plant at Kent. Wash- 

 ington. B. G. Nelson is president of the company. 



UNITED STATES TIRE CO. DEVELOPS NEW TIRE 



Car designers are finding it desirable to build cars closer to the 

 ground, thus getting a lower center of gravity with increased 

 ability to stay on the road at all speeds. Following this innova- 

 tion the United States Tire Co. has developed a 31 by 4 straight- 

 side Royal cord tire, a size heretofore unknown among cord tires. 

 The tire is to be mounted on a 30 by 3'/2-inch straight-side rim. 

 having the standard 3V2-inch straight-side cross-sectional contour. 

 The rim will be the same as the 32 by 3^-inch straight-side rim 

 except that it will lie 23 inches in diameter instead of 25 inclies. 



This tire is in no way a substitute for the 31 by 4 clincher tire, 

 nor can it lie mounted on a 30 bv 3^-inch clincher rim. It is of 

 interest as being an extension of the straight-side principle into 

 those sizes of tires which heretofore have been almost exclusively 

 of the clincher bead type. By changing clincher rims to straight- 

 side, cars can be equipped with 4-inch cord tires, and this is often 

 necessary when there is particularly heavy service. Many rim 

 and wheel manufacturers are now preparing to furnish 30 by S'/i 

 straight-side equipment to interchange with their standard 30 by 

 S'A clincher demountable rims. 



