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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



March 1, 1921 



The Badger Raincoat Co., Port Washington, Wisconsin, re- 

 ports business in a very good condition. Recently the company 

 shipped a carload of raincoats. 



C. W. Moon, formerly with the Detroit Steel Products Co., has 

 been appointed manager of the Detroit branch of the II. II. 

 Robertson Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 



The Miller Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has opened a direct 

 factory tire branch at 2220 Karnum street, Omaha, Nebraska, 

 with A. G. Wall as branch manager. 



Hillis F. Hackedorn, formerly manager of the Detroit office 

 of the H. H. Robertson Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, manufac- 

 turer of mineral rubber and hydrocarbons, has moved to Chicago, 

 where he will have charge of that company's central district ter- 

 ritory, including Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, 

 Iowa, Minnesota, Xorth and South Dakota, Nebraska. Kansas 

 and parts of Ohio, .\rkansas, Oklahoma and Ontario. 



The Jcffery Manufacturing Co., Columbus, Ohio, has removed 

 its Denver office from the First National Bank Building to 421 

 United States National Bank Building, Denver, Colorado. 



The KeHawKc Manufacturing Co., 1006 West Lake street. 

 Minneapolis, Minnesota, maker of the KeHawKe revolving tire 

 spreader, is officered by J. Earle Kemp, president ; D. W. Kemp, 

 vice-president ; P. E. Hawkinson, secretary. 



The Burdick Tire & Rubber Co., 10 South La Salle street, 

 Chicago, Illinois, is nfTering for sale to former stockholders a 

 part of its preferred stock issue amounting to approximately 

 $100,000. The company's new plant at Noblesville, Indiana, is 

 expected to be ready for operation early in the spring and will 

 manufacture Burdick "shingle" tires and automobile tubes. Officers 

 of the company are H. G. Steinbrenner, president ; F. E. Teachout, 

 vice-president and general manager; II. P. Steinbrenner, secre- 

 tary and treasurer. 



The stockholders of W. H. Salisbury & Co., Chicago, Illinois, 

 at their annual meeting Fel)ruary 8, reelected the following 

 officers and directors to serve another year : M. B. Salisbury, 

 president; H. H. Salisbury, vice-president; Richard H. Geier, 

 secretary; L. H. Winne, j. C. Kettner, T. R. Claffy and George 

 J. Holmes, directors. The company's new rubber mill in Chicago 

 is now fully equipped and ready to take on increased volume of 

 business in molded rubber goods, etc. The increase in the 

 business done by the company in February was marked and 

 would seem to indicate a revival of trade. 



THE RUBBER TRADE ON THE PACIFIC COAST 

 By Our Regular Correspondent 



As indicating uliat may 1)c expected in tire replacements for 

 1921, it is stated that the automobile registrations in seven 

 Pacific states show an increase for 1920 over 1919 of 26.6 per 

 cent. The totals are: For 1919, 822,061 ; for 1920, 1,032,901. 



Improving business conditions are reported by many of the 

 leading rubber manufacturers and dealers on the Pacific slope. 

 The United States Rubber Co. states that February business in 

 its many lines has averaged well above that of the corresponding 

 period in 1920 and the outlook, jud.ging from orders and in- 

 quiries, is very encouraging for 1921. 



Tire manufacturers and dealers have been preparing to contest 

 ■a proposition made in the California state senate by Senator 

 W^alter Eden of Santa Ana for the imposition of a ta-x, graded 

 according to size, on automobile tires to provide additional funds 

 for the upkeep of the state highways. 



LOS ANGELES NOTES 



The E. M. Smith Co., 618 Clarence street, Los .\ngeles, has 

 shipped to Colombia, South .\nierica, the first instalment of a 

 carload of rubber and canvas belting to be used on oil-drilling 

 machinery in the newly opened fields in the interior. The goods 

 on reaching Cartagena will be transhipped by mule-back. 



-•Ml departments are being operated well up to capacity at the 

 West .\merican Rubl)er Works, 400 .Avenue 19, Los .\ngeles. The 

 concern supplies considerable rubber goods for the oil fields of 

 the Coast and Southwest, and also manufactures inany patented 

 specialties. 



"A notable increase in orders," is the report made by Roy R. 

 Meads, president and general manager of the Pacific Rubl>er Co., 

 one of the largest tire distributers in Los .Angeles, and which 

 has several branches on the Pacific Coast. 



A. F. Osterloh, vice-president and general manager of the Good- 

 year Tire & Rubber Company of California, has been appointed 

 by Sylvester L. Weaver, president of the Los .'\ngeles Chamber 

 of Commerce, chairman of its Committee on Manufacturing. 

 During his short residence in the California metropolis, Mr. 

 Osterloh has taken an exceptionally active interest in the civic 

 and commercial welfare of the city. 



With the installation of delayed electric eciuipment. the new 

 plant of the West Coast Asbestos Co. at Downey, a suburb of 

 Los Angeles, was scheduled to start operations March 1. The 

 concern, which will employ 100 men, reports large advance orders 

 for asbestos brakes, clutch-blocks, facings, linings, and disks, 

 belts, gaskets, and other asbestos textile goods. A large part of 

 the orders is for export. 



The Process Rubber Co., 5918 Hollywood Boulevard, Holly- 

 wood, Los .A.ngeles, of which H. A. Schnelbach is manager, is a 

 new concern which specializes in processing new and old tires 

 with laboratory treatment of carcass and tread. 



In a model adobe home at Larchmont avenue and Third street, 

 Los Angeles, built and equipped at a cost of $85,000, one of the 

 novelties is a kitchen floor covered with rubber tiling laid in con- 

 tinuous strips ; also a sink drain board similarly covered. The 

 tiling was made by the W^est .\merican Rubber Works, of Los 

 Angeles. 



West Coast distributers of Brunswick tires report to the Pa- 

 cific headquarters of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. in Los 

 Angeles that February sales are well abreast of those of last 

 year, and that the outlook for 1921 business is very promising. 



The. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. of California has estab- 

 lished a legal first aid department for its employes which is in 

 charge of Walter I. Lyon, formerly deputy prosecuting attorney 

 at Youngstown, Ohio. 



J. A. .\nkrom, of Los Angeles, who owns a large plantation 

 adjacent to the Davao gulf in the Philippine Islands, and has 

 been actively engaged in trade there for twenty-two years, is ar- 

 ranging with Los Angeles capitalists for extensive developments, 

 largely in rubber growing, in the islands. Mr. Ankrom's plan 

 contemplates a land grant from the Philippine Government similar 

 to that obtained by the Southern Pacific Railway Co. and other 

 such concerns in the United States, to alternate sections, and in 

 which both Filipino and .American capital would be employed 



The Climax Rubber Co., Columbus, Ohio, has had a repre- 

 sentative, Frank B. Thompson, looking over the Southern Cali- 

 fornia territory with a view to establishing a Pacific Coast fac- 

 tory branch, probably in Los Angeles. 



The National .\irlcss Tire Co., Los Angeles, has bought a site 

 for a factory in Norwalk, Los Angeles County, and will soon 

 begin building. The Norwalk stockholders recently held a meet- 

 ing and dinner, the presiding officer being A. D. Bradbeer, of 

 Norwalk. The speakers were: C. H. Braden, secretary and man- 

 ager; Reverend Horace E. Partridge, F. R. Bryant, O. A. Lane, 

 jiresident; C. F. Evans, treasurer, and Mayor O. C. Jones, of 

 Buckeye Lake, Ohio. • 



The C. H. Rapp Tire Co., one of the largest concerns in its 

 line in Los Angeles, has left its old stand at Broadway and Tenth 

 street and joined the fast-growing automobile and tire colony 

 centering about Pico and Figiieroa streets. 



