January 1, 1920.J 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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William O'Neill, a member of the welfare department of The 

 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., and William Krocger, manager 

 of the Coventry Land & Improvement Co., a subsidiary com- 

 pany of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., have been elected 

 members of the Akron city council. 



The commercial representatives of England, France, Italy 

 and Belguim, who visited the United States and attended the 

 world trade convention held at Atlantic City, spent November 

 IS inspecting the rubber plants of Akron and were entertained 

 at the Portage Country Club in the evening. 



The Chamber of Commerce has prepared statistics concern- 

 ing the business of Akron which indicate that during the past 

 year the output of local industries amounted to $522,436,020, and 

 the pay-roll of the city to $117,974,890, and the capitalization to 

 $272,853,770. The production of the city at present is estimated 

 at approximately 200,000. 



The employes of the Akron rubber factories contributed the 

 major portion of the $1,500,000 placed in the peace chest which 

 has been organized to finance thirty-three welfare organizations 

 of the city. 



.SoiTHER.v Delegation of Automobile Dealers at Akron. 



Early in December a delegation of forty Chandler and Cleve- 

 land automobile dealers from Oklahoma, New Mexico, Pan- 

 handle Texas and Arkansas was entertained by The B. F. Good- 

 rich Co., and the manufacture of tires demonstrated from start 

 to finish. The trip was conducted by the Markham Motor Co., 

 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the party traveling in a special Pull- 

 man coach. Automobile, tire and accessory factories were also 

 visited in St. Louis, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Detroit and Chi- 

 cago. The dealers returned to their respective territories fired 

 by the optimism of the great automobile centers and better 

 equipped to demonstrate cars and talk tires convincingly and 

 profitably. 



At the recent annual meeting of the stockholders of the 

 Williams Foundry & Machine Co., Akron, Ohio, the following 

 ofiicers were elected : F. E. Halcomb, president ; S. F. Ziliox, 

 vice-president ; G. Carl Dietz, treasurer ; William J. Slater, sec- 

 retary and assistant treasurer; Charles Reymann, Charles Her- 

 berich and A. W. Burnett, additional directors. 



The company's plant is working to capacity on vulcanizers 

 and miscellaneous machinery for the building and repair of 

 tires. The demand for repair equipment is especially good at 

 this time. 



M. M. Whorley has been appointed assistant sales manager of 

 The Mason Tire & Rubber Co., Kent, Ohio. 



The Columbia Tire & Rubber Co., Columbiana, Ohio, will 

 build a new plant in Mansfield, to be known as Plant No. 1. 

 Stock to the extent of $500,000 has been issued and disposed of 



to provide funds for the purpose. The company's general offices 

 will be removed to the new building as soon as completed. 



The Henderson Tire & Rubber Co., Inc., Bucyrus, Ohio, is 

 moving to its new plant on West Goodale s^treet, Columbus, 

 where it expects to produce about 1,500 tires daily. C. O. Hen- 

 derson is president and treasurer Joseph Friedman, vice-presi- 

 dent; and George C. Riley, secretary. 



The Ultimate Tire & Rubber Co., Cleveland, Ohio, has bought a 

 site of 12.6 acres of land at Collamer and East lS2d street, touch- 

 ing the main line of the Nickel Plate railroad, where it will build 

 its plant. 



Ground has also been broken and construction begun on the 

 buildings for the Excel Rubber Co., at Wadsworth, near Akron. 

 The company recently organized with a capitalization of $600,- 

 (XX) of which only $100,000 is to be sold at this time, and that 

 sale restricted to the citizens of Wadsworth. 



R. C. Holman has been placed in charge of all blowing engines 

 of the Hooven, Owens, Rentschler Co., Hamilton, Ohio. 



The McLean Tire & Rubber Co., East Liverpool, Ohio, is 

 completing a factory addition, 100 by 150 feet, two stories in 

 height, of brick and steel construction, into which it expects to 

 move about February 1, when production will be increased to 

 average 1,000 tires daily. On December 1 the company began the 

 manufacture of McLean cord casings, which completes its line of 

 tires and tubes. 



The Knox Tire & Rubber Co., Mt. Vernon, Ohio, will build a 

 three-story factory building. 1(X) by 225 feet, to cost about 

 $170,000. 



The Ashland Tire & Rubber Co., Ashland. Ohio, will build a 

 new tire plant. 



MID-WESTERN NOTES. 



By a Special Correspondent. 



THE General Electric Co., Schenectady, New York, will build 

 a new factory at Decatur, Indiana, 260 by 360 feet, for which 

 site was recently purchased. 



The Sewell Cushion Wheel Co., Detroit, Michigan, has bought 

 lOK' acres of land at the corner of Harper avenue and the T)e- 

 troit Terminal Railway, where it will immediately erect dry 

 kilns and warehouses. Manufacturing for the present will con- 

 tinue at the company's building at Gratiot and Beaufait avenues. 



The Michelin Tire Co., Milltown, New Jersey, has opened fac- 

 tory branches at 514 Mulberry street, Des Moines, Iowa, and at 

 26 West Woodbridgc street, Detroit, Mich., both to be under the 

 supervision of R. B. Tracy, district manager. The State of Iowa, 

 eastern Michigan and northwestern Ohio territory will tie 

 covered. 



A. Plamondon Manufacturing Co., 12-24 North Clinton street, 

 Chicago, Illinois, is building a one-story machine shop and 

 foundry on its property at 53d street and Western avenue, to 

 cost aproximately $400,000. This company manufactures gearing 

 and friction clutches as well as special machinery for tlie rubber 

 trade. 



The Gillette Rubber Co., Eau Claire, Wisconsin, which bought 

 the business of the Chippewa Rubber Co., of the same city, some 

 months ago, is continuing to manufacture the same products, 

 namely, waterproof material for raincoats. 



In order to take care of the increasing demand for its malleable 

 iron chains for elevating, conveying and power transmission pur- 

 poses, the Link-Belt Co., Chica.go, Illinois, is completing its 

 Belmont foundry at Indianapolis, Indiana, as originally laid out 

 The new building will be about 400 by 70 feet, and the necessary 

 rolling mills, sand blast and other equipment will be installed as 

 soon as possible, also a furnace of 15 tons capacity. 



