March I.' 1921 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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tion of fountain pens. The company has expanded rapidly in its 

 seven years of existence from desk room and a 1914 production 

 of 10,000 pens to its present modern building with a capacity of 

 1. 000,000 pens. The new structure is designed to carry two 

 additional stories, which it is believed will be needed within a 

 short time. 



S. Jane Williams, of the llimd Ivublier Co. forces, VValertown, is 

 first vice-president of the New England Industrial Nurses' Asso- 

 ciation, an organization of 215 factory nucses with headquarters 

 at 3 Joy street, Boston, where monthly meetings are held to keep 

 members in touch with health work progress in other plants. 

 The association was organized in 1915. 



The American Tire Fabric Co., Newburyport, employing about 

 30O hands, shut down its mills for two weeks or more at tlie end 

 of the first week in February. 



The Panther Rubber Co., Stoughton, Massachusetts, announces 

 the apponitment of Dudley Freeman as general sales manager of 

 its combined plants, which include besides the Stoughton l)rancb, 

 the Panther Rubber Co., Limited, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, 

 the Panco Rubber Co., Chelsea, .Massacluisetts, and the Puritan 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., Trenton, New Jersey. Mr. Freeman 

 has been sales itianager for the Canadian branch and hns been 

 very successful. He is a native of New York City and has made 

 a specialty of marketing. He will make his home in Boston. The 

 Panther Rublier Co., manufactures the Panther tread and several 

 other brands of rubber heels, besides soles, soling mats, me- 

 chanical molded rubber goods, etc. 



The Cambridge Rubber Co., Cambridge, Massachusetts, is now 

 manufacturing a general line of rubber footwear in its recently 

 completed footwear factory. For several years the company 

 has been making a line of high-grade tennis shoes in addition to 

 its canvas and rubber outin* shoes, rubber clothing, fabrics, 

 molded goods and rubber heels for manufacturers. E. W. Dun- 

 bar, formerly superintendent of the Apsley Rubber Co., Hudson, 

 Massachusetts, and a specialist in footwear production, is now 

 factory manager of the Cambridge Rubber Co. Mr. Dunbar's 

 long experience has made him favorably known in the industry. 

 The name "Cameo" identifies the Cambridge Rubber Co.'s pro- 

 ducts and is a synonym for cpiality among distributers of rubber 

 merchandise everywhere. 



Warren MacPherson, president of the Cambridge Rubher Co., 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts, is on his way to the Northweit and the 



manager, has been advanced to sales manager. Other appoint- 

 ments include K. S. Chamberlain as manager of export sales and 

 C. H. Gage and L. N. Southmayd as assistant sales managers. 



PHENOMENAL GROWTH OF THE MEADE RUBBER CO. 



The Meade Rubber Co. has recently completed a large three- 

 story addition to its plant at Stoughton, Massachusetts, which 

 increases its floor space from 26,000 square feet to 54,000 s<piare 



feet, more than doubling 

 capacity. The new fac- 

 tory addition is equipped 

 with the latest type of 

 machinery and has been 

 running virtually full 

 time through the present 

 lull in business, manu- 

 facturing rubber heels, 

 proofing, hospital sheet- 

 ing, and rubber special- 

 ties for the shoe trade. 



James Meade, presi- 

 dent of The Meade Rub- 

 ber Co., is well known as 

 a proofing expert and in- 

 ventor of machines and 

 processes peculiar to ad- 

 hesive fabrics, including 

 a multiple spreading and 

 ijiiubling apparatus, a 

 process of making double 

 texture fabrics, and a 

 method of ])rei)aring and 

 applying adhesive coats 

 without solvents. Mr. 

 Meade was formerly superintendem and vice-president of the 

 Plymouth Rubber Co., but after that company's plant 

 was renn ved to Canton, .Massachusetts, he returned to Stoughton. 

 In July, 1916, he established The Meade Rubber Co., 

 which has been very successful and of phenomenal growth. 

 F"or many months the company was working day and night to 

 keep abreast of orders, whicli congestion resulted in the erection 

 of the addition to its plaiU. 



The Boston oflfice of The Meade Rubber Co., located at 111 

 Lincoln street, is under the managership of Charles C. Dailey, 



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Pl.ant of TiiK Mii.AnE Rubber Co., Stoughton, Massachusetts 



Pacific Coast, where he will call on the company's distributers. 

 F. H. .\yers, for the past four years sales inanager for The 

 Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee I'alls, Massachusetts, has been pro- 

 moted to director of sales; William Wield, former assistant sales 



for over ten years manager of the fabric department of the 

 Seamans & Cobb Co., Boston. The New York office is located 

 at 45 East 17th street, and is in charge of E. J. Hooper, formerly 

 manager of the New York office of the Plymouth Rublier Co. 



