October 1, 1919.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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Kelly-Springtield Tire Co., Miller Rubber Co., Pennsylvania 

 Rubber Co., Sterling Tire Corp., United States Rubber Co., 

 Ajax Rubber Co., Inc., Empire Rubber & Tire Co., Federal Rub- 

 ber Co., Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., The Goodyear Tire & 

 Rubber Co., The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co. 



THE EDITOR'S BOOK TABLE. 



DETERMI.\.\TION OF FREE CARBON IN' RCUBER COODS. BY 

 .\. H. Smith and S. \V. Epstein, assistant chemists, has been i.uhlished 

 as Technologic Paper No. 136 of the Bureau of Standards. 



'T'HE details of the method described in the above pamphlet 

 ■I- were published in The Indi.\ Rubber World, January 1, 

 1919, page 197. 



"STUBBS BUYERS- DIRECTORY FOR THE WHOLES.XLE DRUG, 

 Chemical and .\IIied Trades"; 388 pages, 6 by 9 inches. Alfred Stubbs, 

 .New York. 



The 1919 edition of this standard work is "a classified list of 

 manufacturers, importers and first hand wholesalers" and lists 

 such materials as anilines, chemicals, dyestuffs, drugs, gums, oils, 

 essential oils, and crude and raw materials, for manufactures in 

 important industrial chemical lines, including rubber manufac- 



DYKE'S .AUTOMOBILE .AND G.ASOLINE ENGINE ENCYCLOPEDIA. 

 By A. L. Dyke, E.E. Tenth edition. A. L. Dyke. St. Louis. Missouri. 

 (Cloth, large octavo, 940 pages, profusely illustrated.) 

 The tenth edition of this voluminous work on the construc- 

 tion, operation and repair of automotive vehicles and gasoline 

 engines of all sorts has made its appearance thoroughly brought 

 up to date and containing, in addition to the sections on .auto- 

 mobiles, trucks and motorcycles, much new material on trac- 

 tors and airplanes. Two sections, comprising 27 pages, are de- 

 voted to tires and tire accessories of all sorts, the use, care 

 and repair of tires, rims, air pumps, compressors, etc. Hun- 

 dreds of half-tones, diagrams, charts, inserts, a comprehensive 

 inde.x and numerous supplements illustrate the text, and alto- 

 gether the volume provides a remarkable compendium of ready 

 reference for the motorist, cyclist and aviator. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



<<pNEUMATic Tire V.alve Wrinkles" is the title of a 43-page 

 * cloth-bound book, vest-pocket size, published by A. 

 Schrader's Son, Inc., Brooklyn, New York. Although compiled 

 primarily for the use of the various branches of the United States 

 Army and Navy, it is of value to every motorist and cyclist, 

 acquainting him in a concise manner with all that it is necessary 

 for him to know about tire valves, various allied accessories and 

 their care, proper tire inflation, ascertaining air pressure, etc. 



"The Story of the Tire" is the title of a very interesting 

 and instructive 67-page illustrated booklet published for distribu- 

 tion by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Beginning with the 

 many uses of rubber and the discovery of vulcanization by 

 Charles Goodyear, it recounts the growth of the Goodyear 

 business, describes the great manufacturing plant at .\kron, Ohio, 

 the rubber plantations in Sumatra, the cotton plantations in 

 Arizona and the fabric mills in Connecticut. How rubber is 

 grown and prepared for market, and how it is used in the 

 manufacture of tires of various sorts are concisely detailed. 

 .Altogether it is an exceptional piece of trade publicity. 

 * * * 



Black & Decker, Baltimore, Maryland, have issued a 

 handsome 32-page catalog of their Lectroflaters, electric air com- 

 pressors, portable electric drills and electric valve grinders. The 

 Lectroflaters are made in numerous forms for private and 

 garage use, ranging from small hand and wall devices to station- 

 ary and portable tank outfits. The air compressors are for 

 pneumatic truck-tire inflation and operating pneumatic tools, etc. 



Department of Commerce Bulletins, Miscellaneous Series 

 No. 81. "Selling in Foreign Markets," by Guy Edward Snider. 

 In a volume of 637 pages the^Bureau of Foreign and Domestic 

 Commerce and the Federal Boar'JSor Vocational Education have 

 combined to provide the American business world with informa- 

 tion that may enable it to enter foreign markets with some 

 chances for success. The information covers export sales prob- 

 lems, the export middleman, traveling salesmen, correspondence, 

 catalogs, and advertising. There is a chapter on credits and one 

 on delivery, packing, etc., making the book as a whole well 

 worth reading by all who are planning to do business with 

 foreigners. 



The "Bulletin dc I'Assucialion des Plantcurs dc Caoutchouc," 

 published at .Antwerp, Belgium, comes to life again after a 

 silence of five years during the German invasion. It announces 

 that it must double its price and that it will deal with all tropical 

 products as well as with rubber. These products will be taken 

 into its rubber museum also, which luckily escaped the notice of 

 ihe invaders and is nearly intact. Among other interesting arti- 

 cles, some of which are finely illustrated, is one on the rules of 

 the -Antwerp rubber futures market. The artistic colored cover 

 shows a Malayan tapping a rubber tree. 



"The Trans-Pacific," a financial and econo.mic magazine 

 of international service, published at Tokio, Japan, is a new 

 publication which has just come to hand. It is a large, well- 

 printed magazine having for its object to bring into closer busi- 

 ness relations the activities and enterprises of the United States 

 with those of the Far East and -Australasia. A number of prom- 

 ment industries of China, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, and 

 Siberia are described, with ample illustrations in this number. 



The editorial staff and contributors include several prominent 

 business writers and officials in the liastern countries. The 

 main portion of the magazine is printed in English, but there is 

 a Japanese section in charge of an editor of an influential maga- 

 zine in Japan, and a Chinese section edited by a student of 

 economic aflPairs in China and other Far Eastern countries. The 

 magazine starts out with the promise of being both interesting 

 and useful to .American houses catering to foreign trade. 



-A New Tire Journal. Under the excellent name, "Tires 

 and Accessories" (Edward Lyman Bell, Inc., 373 Fourth avenue, 

 New York City), a new journal makes its bow to the trade. It is 

 evident from its leading articles, its wealth of trade news and its 

 excellently arranged Table of Comparative Tire and Tube Prices 

 that it aims to interest and assist distributors. The field is big 

 and fertile and the initial nuinber one of much promise. May suc- 

 cess and its accessories attend it. 



MEETING OF THE SCRAP RUBBER DIVISION OF THE NATIONAL 

 ASSOCIATION OF WASTE MATERIAL DEALERS. 



The meeting of the Scrap Rubber Division of the National 

 .Association of Waste Material Dealers was held at the Hotel 

 .Astor, New York City, on September 16. David Feinberg pre- 

 sided in the absence of Chairman Muehlstein. 



.A committee appointed to confer with the Rubber Reclaim- 

 ers' Division of the Rubber .Association of .America with refer- 

 ence to the payment of interest on overdue accounts made its 

 report. It has sent a letter to the Rubber Reclaimers' Division 

 proposing that 6 per cent interest be allowed for any overdue 

 period. 



Charles E. Miller, .Anderson Rubber Works, Anderson, 

 Indiana, is building a three-story and basement addition of brick 

 and concrete, 108 by 108 feet, to be used largely in the manu- 

 facture of tires, vulcanizers and other rubber-working ma- 

 chinery. 



