October 1, 1911.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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lowing officers elected: W. W. Wuchter, president ami general 

 manager; Joseph Dangel, vice-president; C. O. Banghnian, secre- 

 tary; R. A. May, treasurer. " 



The company increased its capital stock from $400,000 to 

 $800,000, all of which money is to be invested in the business. 

 The company has not been able to supply the demand for tires. 

 An automatic sprinkling system has recently been installed as 

 well as a new telephone system. The office has been enlarged 

 and rearranged, making the rooms more convenient. 



The solid tire business continues steady through the four 

 seasons and the company is making a special efifort to equip all 

 kinds of fire apparatus and all types of commercial cars. 



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The American Tire and Rubber Co.. of Akron, Ohio, organized 

 under the laws of Ohio, October, 1910, has a capital stock of 

 $200,000, all common. $100,000 of which has already been paid 

 and another $100,000 is being issued for working capital. The 



American Tire .vxd Rubber Co., Akrox, Ohio. 



officers of the company are as follows : Adam Duncan, presi- 

 dent and treasurer ; Gilbert C. Waltz, vice-president ; F. L. 

 Kryder, secretary. The directors are: Adam Duncan, Gilbert 

 C. Waltz, E. L. Kryder, Harvey Musser, Gustavus Seiberling, 

 C. M. Wertz, Frank Miller, F. E. Rowe and L. C. Henderson. 

 The company owns the above factory and site of three acres 

 located along the B. & O. and Northern Ohio Railroads, within 

 a half mile of the center of Akron. The factory building is com- 

 pleted and machinery and equipment are now being installed. 

 The factory is practically fireproof and covers about 25,000 square 

 feet floor space. They will manufacture a complete line of inner 

 tubes, repair stock and casings. Later they expect to exploit 

 patents w-hich they now hold for demountable and solid tires and 

 may also reclaim rubber under a special process of their own. 

 The officers expect to have the company in full operation within 

 sixty days. 



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The board of directors of The Portage Rubber Co., at its 

 regular quarterly meeting voted to purchase new equipment for 

 tire making. They expect to increase their capacity to 100 tires 

 per day. They will install a sprinkling system as well as a new- 

 pumping plant. The quarterly dividend was declared at this 

 meeting and O. S. Welty of Canal Dover was elected a director. 



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The present condition of the rubber trade in the Akron fac- 

 tories has shown an increase in business over other years, and 

 the fall trade especially has continued strong, the Diamond, 

 Goodyear, Firestone, Swinehart and B. F. Goodrich running day 

 and night, and the other factories are busy. Mr. E. C. Tibbetts 

 of the B. F. Goodrich plant accounts for this long sales season 

 by the fact "the owners of cars, even the small ones, are making 

 them do more work than formerly. The runabouts are touring 



the country more than before, and our business men are using 

 their machines all through the year ; also the aggregate number 

 of cars in use is greater year by year, each of which has its 

 effect on the volume and continuity of the tire business." 



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J. F. Singleton, advertising manager of The Firestone Tire 

 and Rubber Co., has just returned from a trip through Europe. 

 He says that there are few cars in Europe compared with the 

 number in tlie United States, and the European cars are chiefly 

 of expensive design, few low-priced cars being found. On the 

 other hand, the motor truck business in Europe has far out- 

 stripped the motor truck business in this country and the trucks 

 are mostly equipped with tires of French or German manu- 

 facture. The roads in Europe are, as a general rule, in good 

 condition and the taxi-cab service there costs about one-fifth of 

 what it costs here. He says that the best way to see Europe at 

 tlie least expense is by touring in an automobile, as the roads 

 are good, a person can see places of interest at his leisure, and 

 can put up at many of the first-class smaller hotels which are 

 good and not expensive. Mr. Singleton says that the advertis- 

 ing possibilities in Europe are great and that the lack of adver- 

 tising along rubber lines at present gives a great field in that 

 direction. 



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Mr. Ji Im C. Gibson has ceased to take an active part in the 

 management of The Roj'al Rubber Co., and at present is handling 

 and manufacturing a line of soft rubber goods. 



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The Faultless Rubber Co. of Ashland, Ohio, during the last 

 year have increased the size of their plant, adding a large three- 

 story addition. 



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Mr. 11. W. French will move his office from 410 Flatiron 

 Building to Rooms 713 and 714, Second National Bank Building. 

 He has furnished a commodious suite of rooms w-ith an elaborate 

 sample room in which he will keep all known samples of rul)ber 

 now on the market. 



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James A. Thompson, formerly with The Hartford Ruliber 

 Works Co., has charge of the Philadelphia branch of The Swine- 

 hart Tire and Rubber Co., and J. J. O'Connor has the agency for 

 their tires in Bridgeport, Conn. 



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The Moore .Vrcbitectural and Engineering Co. have organized 

 with Mr. F. R. Moore, president and general manager ; C. S. 

 Heller, vice-president; M. C. Peck, secretary and C. E. Fasnight, 

 treasurer. Mr. Moore has for the last six or eight months been 

 operating a reclaiming plant. The apparatus is new and of his 

 owMi design and the process is entirely new. The time covering 

 the entire process is less than twelve hours. The apparatus is 

 8 horsepower and for agitation purposes he claims it will do the 

 work of a 35-50 horsepower motor, used under present methods. 

 He claims that his process will devulcanize all grades of rubber 

 in less time and at less expense than the old processes. 



The subject of rubber paving for streets was referred to by 

 several of the speakers at the recent Rubber Exhibition in Lon- 

 don, as likely to have an ultimate effect on the demand for 

 rubber. Rubber pavement is not new in London. When the 

 St. Pancras Hotel was built in 1876, it was necessary to provide 

 a roadway under it leading to the busy St. Pancras railway 

 station. To prevent annoyance to hotel guests, this roadway 

 was paved with rubber, and it lasted for thirty years before any 

 renewal was necessary. Under similar conditions, a roadway 

 was laid under the Euston Hotel, in 1881, to the Euston station, 

 and after twenty-one years' use it was found that only at the 

 points of greatest wear had the original thickness of 2 inches 

 been reduced to lJ4 inches. In both instances the traffic on the 

 roadway was constant and heavy. 



