November 1, 1911.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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the boots, shoes and clothing line,-. All it will take, he says, will 

 be a little more rain occasionally to keep a good business going in 

 those particular lines. 



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Chanslor & Lyon, of this city, have recently acquired the coast 

 agency for the Kelly Racine tire. 



James F. Childs, representative of the American Hard Rubber 

 Co., is expected here on his annual trip about the first of No- 

 vember. 



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Nat. Dodge, of the Western Belting and Supply Co., is now 

 visiting in San Francisco. He comes from the New York office. 



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The Panama Rubber Co. has sold out to the Plant Rubber and 

 Supply Co., and its manufacturing plant has been moved from 

 First street to the establishment of the latter firm on Beale street. 



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The Gorham Engineering Co. has been awarded the contract 

 for supplying the fire apparatus for the city of Palo ."Mto. 



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The F. A. Cigol Rubber Co. has placed its agency on the coast 

 with Wm. Getty, in the Sheldon Building. 



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The National Pacific Rubber Co. has been incorporated in Los 

 Angeles with a capital stock of $200,000, three subscribers being 

 J. R. Nash, H. L. Dietcher and E. B. Hottler. 



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Louis H. Scherer has sold a half interest in the Pneumatic 

 Rubber Re-Thread Tire Co. The company is not incorporated. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



nPHE North British Rubber Company, Limited, Castle Mills, 

 •^ Edinburgh, has prepared a little booklet entitled "Scientific 

 Rubber Manufacture," which gives in considerable detail and 

 with various photographic illustrations a description of the scien- 

 tific manner in which the work at that factory is conducted. 

 This booklet is apropos of a new laboratory and experimental 

 department which the company has recently built and equipped. 

 The work in this new laboratory, which is the third that the 

 company has installed during the last ten years, is divided into 

 several departments as follows : Research chemical laboratory, 

 routine chemical laboratory, physical, electrical, experimental, 

 and mechanical laboratories. The research chemical laboratory, 

 as its name indicates, is devoted to experimental work in chem- 

 istry. In the routine chemical laboratory the supplies of the 

 factory — crude rubber, chemicals, etc, are tested. In the physi- 

 cal Laboratory the specific gravity of finished goods is carefully 

 investigated and especially in goods used in aeronautics — bal- 

 loon and aeroplane fabrics — with special reference to their im- 

 permeability to hydrogen. In the electrical laboratory tests are 

 made on rubber gloves and vulcanite goods to see what resis- 

 tance they have to electric currents. The experimental depart- 

 ment is in reality a complete rubber mill on a small scale with 

 mixers, grinders, etc. In the mechanical laboratory tests are 

 made as to the tensile strength of fabrics used in the factory. 

 It is altogether an interesting little booklet, especially to rubber 

 manufacturers. [4 x 6J^ inches. 16 pages.] 



The Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has just 

 issued a finely printed octavo catalogue, 20 pages and cover, 

 descriptive of the rims it makes. This company believes that 

 it is an unwise policy to pass the making of rims over to out- 

 side manufacturers, and that it is much more conducive to good 

 results to have the rims made by those who make the tires, in 

 order that the two may develop together and the best com- 

 bination be effected. This little catalogue illustrates aiid de- 



scribes the Standard Clincher Rim; the Quick-Detachable 

 Clincher Demountable Rim ; the Dual Quick-Detachable Clincher 

 Demountable Rim; the Quick Removable Rims for side wire 

 motor tires, and the Channel Rims. Diagrams are given that 

 make it very easy to locate the difl'erent parts that constitute 

 these various rims. 



Lewis & Peat, London, England, have recently sent out a pam- 

 phlet of some thirty pages, entitled "International Rubber Ex- 

 hibition, Agricultural Hall, London, 1911; A Short Criticism on 

 the Exhibits from Ceylon, Southern India, Malaya, Dutch East 

 Indies, Uganda and East Africa." They preface their criticism 

 by congratulating the planters who exhibited in the recent ex- 

 hibition on the excellent quality and condition of their samples, 

 which showed a marked improvement in their preparation over 

 those displayed at the exhibition three years ago, the bulk of the 

 samples of Hevea being in blanket crepe form. In the opinion of 

 the authors, the two best forms of preparation of rubber for the 

 market and the form in which the rubber is most saleable are 

 blanket crepe and smoked sheet, and most of the exhibits from 

 the Ceylon and Malay estates were in one of these two forms. 

 There were only a few samples of Hevca shown in the Uganda 

 section, but these were enough to show that this species of rub- 

 ber can be successfully cultivated in that country, as the quality 

 was excellent and the rubber strong and marked by all the char- 

 acteristics of the Hevea grown in the Far East. Of the Ceara 

 rubber from East Africa, there were many excellent samples, but 

 all, in the opinion of the authors, had one fault, namely, too much 

 resin. 



Volume 1, No. 1, of "The Goodrich,'' a monthly magazine, 

 published by The B. SP. Goodrich Co., has recently come from 

 the press. This magazine is intended for the automobile and 

 commercial truck manufacturers and dealers and also for the 

 users of commercial vehicles. The object of the publication, 

 in addition to further acquainting the public with the merits 

 of the Goodrich products, is to bring together the manufac- 

 turer, dealer and user of automobiles and commercial vehicles 

 in mutual cooperation. Its columns are open to all discussions 

 that would be helpful to the people interested in this subject, 

 and to the exchange of ideas. 



This initial number, which is profusely illustrated, is devoted 

 quite naturally to showing — succinctly — the wonderful growth of 

 The B. F. Goodrich Co., which started in Akron — the first of 

 the rubber companies to locate in that city — in 1871, in a modest 

 little mill that could be now easily tucked away in one of the 

 rooms of the present plant which covers over 32 acres. Those 

 were the days of small beginnings, for in 1880, nine years after 

 the founding of the business, it only employed 55 men. It now 

 has 5,000 errployes, which is a quarter of the total number of 

 rubber workers now located in Akron — very properly called 

 the "Rubber City" of America. 



The United States Tire Company has distributed its October 

 number of the publication entiled "U. S. for US." As stated on 

 the cover of this publication, it is intended for exclusive circula-: 

 tion among the employes of that company, and for that reason is 

 written in a very familiar vein. It gives, however, much whole- 

 some advice on the methods of achieving success in general, and 

 particularly success in marketing United States tires. The author 

 quotes from Emerson and draws his illustrations from the Old 

 Testament, thereby displaying a commendable range of reading; 



A RUBBER STOCKING WORTH $1,600. 



A Chicago jeweler, who recently arrived in New York on one 

 of the Holland-.-^merican boats, wore a rubber stocking which 

 proved to be worth $1,500. This high appraisal was not due 

 altogether to the quality of the fine Up-river Para used in its 

 construction, but was attributable rather to the fact that the cus- 

 toms inspectors discovered $1,500 worth of unset diamonds care- 

 fully stowed away within the stocking. This shows that hardly 

 a day goes by that some new use is not discovered for rubber. 



