THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[DECEMBtR 1, 1919. 



PRESIDENT OF THE F. E. PARTRIDGE RUBBER CO. 



FREDERICK E. Partridge, president of the F. E. Partridge 

 Rubber Co., Limited, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, was born 

 in Bowdoinham, Maine, in 1873, and entered the rubber industry 

 ai the aye of 21 as a workman in the factory of the Maynard 



Shoe Co., Claremont, 



New Hampshire, manu- 

 facturer of tennis shoes. 

 His aptitude for the 

 huinicss secured for him 

 • irl promotion to the 

 on of foreman and 

 of '.uperintendent. 

 \ears later he be- 

 night superintend- 

 at the Boston 

 en Hose & Rubber 

 Cambridge, Massa- 

 ^tl^, which position 

 I 1 csigncd four years 

 1 itir, and after a short 

 I nn as general super- 

 intnidcnt of the Com- 

 Ijination Rubber Co., 

 Rloomfield, New Jersey, 

 a call came to him to 

 serve as superintendent 

 for the Canadian Rubber 

 Co., Montreal, Canada, 

 of which concern he la- 

 ter was made manager, and still later, was elected vice-president. 

 Making a success of other people's business induced him to 

 strike out for himself in 1915. Organizing a company under 

 his own name, he rented a small factory at Guelph, Ontario, 

 which has been constantly added to and enlarged until it will 

 soon accommodate a working force of 500 people in its big, 

 modern five-story building, the daily output of which is 475 

 tires, 600 inner tubes, 500 water bottles and 1,000 tobacco 

 pouches. 



Mr. Partridge is also the leading spirit in the Northern Rub- 

 ber Co., Limited, Guelph, Ontario, an entirely separate concern 

 which will soon commence the manufacture of the "Partridge" 

 brand of rubber footwear. 



F. E. Partridge. 



CANADIAN NOTES. 



THE Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. of Canada, Limited, 

 has been formed in Canada, capitalized at $5,000,000, and 

 a factory will be built at Hamilton, Ontario, where 135 acres 

 of land have been bought. On one-half of this plot a housing 

 plan for employes, similar to Firestone Park, Akron, Ohio, 

 U. S. A., will be carried out, the other half being occupied by 

 modern factory buildings constructed on the unit plan. 



In addition to the products now made by the Firestone com- 

 pany in Akron, the Canadian organization will manufacture 

 mechanical goods, including belling, and a boot and shoe de- 

 partment will probably be established. A plant for the manu- 

 facture of steel rims will also be built soon. The new company, 

 created primarily to meet the Canadian demand for Firestone 

 products, will also share in the company's export business, par- 

 ticularly that in the British Empire. 



The K. & S. Canadian Tire & Rubber Co., Limited, 527 Yonge 

 street. Toronto, Ontario, is building a modern plant. 



In Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario, as in many other in- 

 dustrial centers, the demand for dwelling houses exceeds the 

 supply. The Dominion Rubber System finds that it is handi- 



capped in obtaining the additional permanent help it needs be- 

 cause of the difficulty of housing them. Kitchener was un- 

 willing to take the responsibility of building homes under the 

 Ontario Government Housing Act, which provides for the loan- 

 ing to municipalities, or to housing companies operating under 

 municipal commissions. However, when the Dominion System 

 oflfered to guarantee the city against loss, the city agreed to 

 legalize the enterprise by appointing a municipal housing com- 

 mission. The adjoining city of Waterloo asked to be put on 

 the same basis as Kitchener, and under this agreement 200 

 houses will be erected in Kitchener and 100 in Waterloo, mainly 

 for workers in the Dominion rubber plants in the larger city. 



PACIFIC COAST NOTES. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



LOS ANGELES NOTES. 



JO. Ward, Los Angeles district manager of The Miller Rubber 

 • Co., reports that the growth of business in his dis- 

 trict has made necessary the construction of a new two- 

 story building on Hope street, the former quarters having 

 been entirely outgrown. 



Douglas Fairbanks, the well-known motion picture actor 

 of Los .-Xngeles, has ordered the first set of pneumatic tires 

 to be manufactured at the new plant of the Goodyear Tire 

 & Rubber Co. of California now undev construction in that 

 city. 



The Carlisle Tire & Rubber Co., Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 

 has appointed the Cooper & Kehler Co., Los Angeles, 

 manager of its new branch in that city. 



The Mohawk Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, will open its new 

 branch at 18th and Flower streets, Los Angeles, January 1, 

 1920. 



SAN FaANOISCO NOTES. , 



The Braender Tire & Rubber Co., Rutherford, New Jer- 

 sey, has opened a Pacific Coast branch at 133 Eighth street, 

 San Francisco. 



The Mohawk Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has a Pacific 

 Coast branch at 1436 Van Ness avenue, San Francisco. 

 noethwesteen notes. 



.\ sales conference of all the Goodrich representatives 

 of the northern Pacific Coast territory was recently held 

 in Seattle, Washington, and over SO salesmen were in at- 

 tendance. This is one of the largest and most important 

 territories in the Goodrich organization including the states 

 of Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Alaska and the 

 province of British Columbia, upwards of 282.161 automo- 

 biles being owned within its borders. W. D. Albright, 

 northwestern manager of the Goodrich company, called the 

 conference and presided at the meetings, during which many 

 important matters relating to trade in the district were dis- 

 cussed. The rubber salesmen were given a banquet at the 

 Butler grill together with a smoker and entertainment which 

 concluded the conference. 



The Seattle Automobile Tire Co., one of the largest in- 

 dividual tire retailing firms in the West, with stores in all 

 the principal cities on the Coast, has contracted for the 

 handling of the Ajax and Fisk tires. 



C. L. Brockway has been named to manage the tire de- 

 partment of the United Motors Co., of Seattle, and will have 

 charge of the distribution of Thermoid tires in the entire 

 northwest section of the state of Washington. Mr. Brock- 

 way has been engaged in the tire business for six years, 

 coming to Seatle from Sioux City, Iowa, last December. 



The Batavia rubber auctions, which have not been held 

 for some years, were resumed in October, 1919, by the Batavia 

 Rubber Association. 



