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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Febru.i 



several coats. A little experimenting will give you expertness 

 in the sun cure. — The Editor.) 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



n'-p niNGs That Interest Firestone Sii.\reiiolders" is the 



1 title of a handsome 16-page brochure, bound in boards, 

 which outlines the rubber situation and the lire demand in 

 America and presents the outstanding features of the accom- 

 plishments, future plans, plant enlargements, and organization 

 of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. 



The Apsley Rubber Co. and the Middlesex Rubber Co., both 

 of Hudson, Massachusetts, have issued their price lists of rubber 

 boots and shoes for the season of 1920. These cover the well- 

 known Apsley, Roch-Hill, Granger, Harvard, Deliverer, Hudson, 

 Marlboro and Middlesex brands. As in the lists of other firms, 

 prices average IS to 20 per cent above those of last season, the 

 advances being due chiefly to the higher costs of cotton textiles 

 and labor. 



The Beacon Tire Co., Inc., Beacon, New York, ase issuing 

 monthly a four-page trade folder, 9 by 12 inches, printed in 

 red and black, entitled "The Beacon Light." 



The Westinchouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. has 

 issued an illustrated pamphlet, "Westinghouse Opportunities 

 for Technical Graduates," which gives in detail the educational 

 .system devised by the company for training the graduates of tech- 

 nical schools in the various kinds of work it requires of them. 

 It gives a list of 99 .American and 14 foreign universities and 

 technical schools which have contributed 5,000 graduates to 

 its force. 



The Gilbert & B.\rker Manufacturing Co., Springfield, 

 Massachusetts, has issued a new and handsomely illustrated 28- 

 page catalog of its oil storage systems, including tanks and 

 measuring pumps. The outfits illustrated and described are in 

 general use in factories, power plants and garages where lubri- 

 cating oils and gasoline are handled. 



"Ashland Chords" is the title of one of the latest house 

 organs, "The Keynote of Ashland Tire and Rubber Company 

 Harmony," as it is designated in the sub-title by its publisher. 

 The Ashland Tire & Rubber Co., Ashland, Ohio. The first 

 number, dated January, 1920, contains an account of the com- 

 pany's organization and progress in building, plans for selling 

 and export, lists of officers and branch offices, the company's 

 trade mark and a picture of the factory as it will look on com- 

 pletion. 



HOLIDAY GREETINGS. 



ONCE more has The India Rubber WoiaD received from the 

 rubber and allied trades the cordial expressions of good 

 will and appreciation, with kind wishes for the New Year. This 

 publication takes this opportunity to return its thanks and to 

 assure these friends that it heartily reciprocates their good 

 wishes for progress and prosperity in this new year, which seems 

 so full of promise for the rubber trade above all. 



CALENDARS. 



A beautiful and artistic water-color of a restful country scene 

 adorns the calendar sent by Tyson Brothers, Inc., of Wood- 

 bridge, New Jersey, manufacturers of rubber substitutes and 

 chemicals. 



.'\nothcr vivid war scene, "The flag that has never known 

 defeat," representing boys in khaki going over the top, marks 

 the calendar issued this year by Elmer E. Bast, Chicago, Illinois, 

 manager of the Acme Belting Co., and of the United and Globe 

 Rubber Co., Trenton, New Jersey. 



Undoubtedly American is the strong face of Sachem Monati- 



quot on the handsome calendar of the Monatiquot Rubber 

 Works Co., of South Braintree, Massachusetts, for which we 

 are indebted to Merton A. Turner. 



From Manchester in England and the Rubber Regenerating 

 Company at Trafford Park comes a fine reproduction of Sey- 

 mour Lucas's painting, "A Whip for Van Tramp," showing the 

 seventeenth century improvements in naval architecture. 



A restful view of woods and river in color, "The Land of 

 Dreams," adorns the calendar of F. E. Woodward & Sons, 

 Lachine, Province of Quebec. 



The J. H. Stcdman Company, scrap rubber, of South Brain- 

 tree, Massachusetts, revives pleasant memories of New England 

 by decorating its calendar with a fine photograph of the "Old 

 Town Mill" at North Scituate. 



A handsome photograph of some of their buildings illustrates 

 the large, decorative calendar of the Pierce Co., East Rochester, 

 New York. 



Large and instructive photographs of the remarkable work 

 turned out by the Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 

 builders of rubber and other machinery, marks the clear and 

 practical calendar it issues. 



Lockwood, Greene & Co., Boston, Massachusetts, illustrated 

 their 1920 calendar with views of many buildings and other 

 concrete constructions erected by the engineering firm through- 

 out the country. 



Pictures of the many diversified products of the General 

 Electric Co., Schenectady, New York, from an electrified railroad 

 to a new lamp bulb, illustrate the large and useful calendar 

 which the company issues. 



The Armstrong Rubber Co., Garfield, New Jersey, takes its 

 super-size tire as model for both the shape and size of its striking 

 calendar. 



An elegant, enamelled, metallic frame backed with enameloid 

 gives the .American Zinc, Lead & Smelting Co.'s AZO cal- 

 endar the appearance of permanence. The unusually helpful 

 calendar for 1920, fastened by an ingenious zinc screw arrange- 

 ment, can come ofif and make room for 1921 when the time 

 comes. 



An attractive young person brightens the calendar of the L. J. 

 Mutty Co., Boston, Massachusetts, manufacturer of automobile 

 top fabrics. 



From F. R. Henderson & Co., Inc., New York City, in paper 

 of crude rubber, comes a handsome, leather-covered, adjustable 

 desk calendar. 



George Borgfeldt & Co., New York City, importers, send a 

 calendar of celluloid with convenient scales. 



The H. F. Taintor Manufacturing Co., New York City, dealer 

 in whiting, sends a card calendar. 



The New Jersey Rubber Co., Lambertville, New Jersey, man- 

 ufacturers of reclaimed rubber, again send us their very con- 

 venient desk calendar. 



.\ pretty girl at the wheel of a motor car attracts the eye 

 to the calendar issued by the Katzenbach & Bullock Co., New 

 York City, manufacturer of chemicals and colors. 

 SOUVENIRS. 



The Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., East Pitts- 

 burgh, Pennsylvania, through William H. Easton, sends a 

 leatherbound, gilt-edged diary, containing useful tables and 

 maps. 



The Birmingham Iron Foundry, Derby, Connecticut, issues a 

 leather-bound pocket memorandum book, provided with helpful 

 tables. 



The Morse Chain Company, Ithaca, New York, sends a 

 leather-bound pocket diary with interesting information regard- 

 ing its products. 



John Royle & Sons, Paterson, New Jersey, makers of rubber 

 and other machinery, send again their little leather-bound diary, 

 with its many helpful tables and unusually convenient little maps. 



