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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Janu.\ry 1, 1920. 



The Montana Cord Tire Co., Inc., 409 Central avenue. Great 

 Falls, Montana, manufacturer of Montana cord and fabric tires, 

 was incorporated in diat state on May 28, 1919, with a capitaliza- 

 tion of $500,000. It-also intends to manufacture inner tubes and 

 rubber sundries,. The officers are: Clarence J. Drope, vice-presi- 

 dent; J. R. Swan, secretary and treasurer. The office of pres- 

 ident is vacant at present. The concern has bought a building 

 175 by 60 feet, near the Missouri river and two transcontinental 

 railroad lines, and expects to place its tires on the market about 

 May 1, 1920. The Montana tire is of heavy construction, hav- 

 ing three layers of cord laid diagonally and individually insulated, 

 with the intent to adapt it to the conditions of local roads. There 

 is also a special patented attachment to the bead of this tire. 

 . The International India Rubber Corp., South Bend, Indiana, has 

 broken ground for a factory addition for the installation of three 

 new mixing mills, one large-size calender, and three new vul- 

 canizers, which it is expected will bring tlie capacity up to 800 

 tires and tubes daily. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has begun the 

 construction of a new building at West 39th street and Win- 

 chester avenue, Chicago, to accommodate the Goodyear organiza- 

 tion in that city. The building will have four stories and base- 

 ment and be of reinforced concrete, containing 200,000 square feet 

 of floor space. A private track and tunnel will be built for in- 

 coming freight, giving access to the central freight station and ex- 

 press receiving room. 



THE PARKER TIRE & RUBBER CX). 



A distinctive feature of the new factory of the Parker Tire & 

 Rubber Co. at Indianapolis, Indiana, is that it is all white, in- 

 cluding the driveways, entrance posts and all the inside wood- 



w^ork. This is in accordance with the company's advertising 

 scheme which starts with a white strip on the tires it manufac- 

 tures and is continued in the pure white trucks and service and 

 pleasure cars. 



The Parker company claims to be the only one in the country 

 specializing absolutely in cord tires ; it makes no tubes or rubber 

 goods of any kind, no plain tread, rib tread or fabric tires. It 

 manufactures only the one non-skid design, which it calls a com- 

 bination non-skid and rib tread. The capacity of the factory is 

 50O cord tires a day. The tires are almost as large as the next 

 standard oversize and are therefore called super-size cord tires. 

 The company's plan is to extend its business, especially in the 

 south, having already been successful throughout the southwest 

 territory. 



ACCESSORY FIRM TO MAKE TIRES. 



Tile .\. J. .Stevens Rubber Co., Kansas City, Missouri, manu- 

 facturer of lire accessories and fabric products, has entered the 

 tire manufacturing field with the Stephens White Tread Tire, 

 guaranteed for 6,000 miles. Inner tubes are also being pro- 

 duced. The present capacity of the plant is 300 casings a day, 

 and this will be increased as new machinery is installed. 



The company began in 1916 with six employes, and has out- 

 grown two plants. Its production of blowout patches has 

 reached 3,000.000 annually, and of fan belts 2,000,000. The capi- 

 tal stock was recently increased to $1,500,000, and the expansion 

 into tire and tube making will increase tlie number of employes 

 to 500 or 600. 



>;dex to "Rubber M.\chinery" will be sent free 



UPON REQUEST. 



PACIFIC COAST NOTES. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



LOS ANGELES NOTES. 



CE. Henson, secretary to vice-president and general mana- 

 • ger A. F. Osterloh, of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 

 of California, has arrived in Los Angeles and assumed charge 

 of the local office. Mr. C. Henson, who is a native of Ohio, is well 

 acquainted with California, having spent five years in this state, 

 during which he served as secretary to the treasurer and the 

 board of trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University, secre- 

 tary to the vice-president of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, and 

 was also in the Goodyear office in San Francisco. 



J. J. Rafferty, director of the Philippine Bureau of Commerce 

 and Industry, was a recent visitor in Los Angeles, making the 

 rounds of business houses to urge the importance of recognizing 

 Manila as the American shipping base of the Orient. Mr. Raf- 

 ferty pointed out that the Philippines are now exporting to the 

 United States more than a dozen commodities, not the least of 

 which is rubber, of which there are over 2,000 acres under culti- 

 vation in the islands. 



Henry Joseph, field sales manager of the Re Miler Rubber 

 Co., Ashland, Ohio, has closed a deal in Los Angeles by which 

 the Western Auto Supply Agency will handle exclusively the 

 "Re Miler," a complete interliner. 



Fifteen carloads of Osier-Racine tires recently arrived in Los 

 Angeles to supply the demand for this particular make of tires 

 n Southern California. 



Considerable discussion has arisen lately in southern Cali- 

 fornia over the inflation scale adopted by the Tire and Rim 

 nivision of the Society of Automotive Engineers. The western 

 iheory seems to be that no standard inflation scale will fit all 

 nnditions — that the load carried in the rear is most important 

 I! determining the amount of air pressure, and that the road 

 nnditions alter every standard rule H. O. Alexander, special 

 representative of The Miller Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, with 

 headquarters in San Francisco, says: "According to the S. ■ A. 

 F. scale, a five-inch cord tire should carry a pressure of 80 

 pounds. LTndoubtedly that may be true from the standpoint 

 of an average pressure for maximum riding comfort, but on the 

 splendid roads of California those figures are by no means con- 

 ducive of maximum mileage. The S. A. E. scale is not definitely 

 applicable in all cases for the simple reason that every tire 

 should be inflated strictly according to the work it is doing." 



S. S. .Abrams, of Los Angeles, general manager of the Su- 

 perior Tires Corporation, has secured the local distributing 

 agency for Mohawk tires. 



Howard Reed, of Los Angeles, is successor to the retail busi- 

 ness of the Wade Tire & Rubber Co., distributers for the Canton 

 cord and the Knight & Blackstone fabric tires on the Pacific 

 Coast. 



J. V. Mowe, assistant general sales manager of the Kelly- 

 Springfield Tire Co., New York City, was a recent visitor in 



