THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February 1, 1920. 



The National Automobile Shows. 



THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL NATIONAL AUTOMOItlLE SHOW, Under 

 the auspices of the National Automobile Chamber of Com- 

 merce, was held in New York City, January 3 to 10. Passen- 

 ger cars were exhibited at the Grand Cenlral Palace and trucks at 

 the New York 8th Coast Artillery Armory. At this year's show 

 there were listed in the catalog 84 makers of passenger cars, 74 

 of trucks, and 284 manufacturers of accessories. Unquestion- 

 ably the exhibition was the largest and most successful so far held. 



A notable feature of the 

 show was the increased 

 use over last year of disk 

 and steel wheels on boih 

 passenger cars and trucks 

 The superiority of sucb 

 wheels over those built of 

 wood has been fully dem- 

 onstrated by transport 

 experience during the war 

 and apparently will be 

 more widely adopted each 

 year, especially for the 

 heavier cars and trucks, 

 as is said to be the gen- 

 eral rule on cars of Euro- 

 pean manufacture. 



ACCESSORIES AT THE 

 PASSENGER CAR SHOW. 



Of special interest 

 among the accessory ex- 

 hibits the following may 

 be mentioned : 



Auto Pedal Pad Co. 

 Molded rubber foot pads 

 for pedal operation. 



Automatic Safety' Tire 

 Valve Corp. The Lox-on 

 air chuck, a device for use 

 in making a secure air 

 connection with the valve 

 for inflation of the tire. 



Breeze Manufacturing 

 Co. Flexible metallic tubing. 



L. C. Chase & Co. Automoljile topping, robes, mohair vel- 

 vets, etc. 



CoFFlELD Tire Proteltor Co. A crescent-shaped endless 

 pure gum protector to be placed between the lube and the tire 

 tread. The effect is to deflect nails from penetrating the tube 

 by means of a yielding thick mass of well-cured rubber. 



Compression Tube & Tire Corp. A specially molded high- 

 grade inner tube so shaped as to hold air after puncture by rea- 

 son of the compressive strain exerted on the tread and side 

 wall portions of the tube by the inflation pressure. 



Eastern Rubber Co. Magic Mend, a self-curing plastic rub- 

 ber composition adapted to close permanently small punctures in 

 inner tubes, water bottles or similar soft rubber articles. 



EssENKAY Products Co. Tire-filling solid composition as a 

 substitute for air-inflated inner tubes. 



Essex Rubber Co. High quality red inner tubes and molded 

 accessories. 



General Electric Co. Fabroil gears. These consist of a cot- 

 ton filler compressed under hydraulic pressure of several tons 



per square inch of side surface and held in compression by steel 

 shrouds or side plates and threaded studs passing entirely 

 through. Mazda lamps, and the Tungar apparatus for recharg- 

 ing batteries. 



Keystone Rlbuer Mfg. Co. Tire accessories, cement, patches 

 and inner tubes. 



Morse Chaix Co. Silent chain for transmitting power from 



gear to gea 



Metal Wheel Equipment for Solid and Pneumatic Tirks 

 Fe.\ture of the Show. 



It end drives in a variety of applications. 



L. J. MuTTY Co. Dridek 



automobile topping; single 



and double-texture rubber 



waterproofed cloths. 



Geo. H. Reves Manu- 

 facturing Co.. Auto pedal 

 pads. 



A. Schrader's Son, Inc. 

 Tire \ alves, pressure gages 

 and special connections. 



C. A. Shaler Co. Elec- 

 trically operated apparatus 

 for sectional repair vul- 

 can'zing. 



Story Rubber Corp 

 llonner inner tubes, hav- 

 ing one ply fabric on 

 thickened rubber tread, 

 the surface of which sup- 

 ports compression under 

 pressure and prevents 

 leaks. 



Titefi.ex Metal Hose 

 Corp. Flexible metal tub- 

 ing without sliding joints 

 for carbureter, exhaust, 

 muffler and conduit con- 

 nections. 



Westinghouse Electric 

 & Manufacturing Co. 

 Rectigon battery chargers, 

 Mazda lamps, air com- 

 pressors and portable elec- 

 tric instruments. 

 ACCESSORIES AT THE TRUCK SHOW. 

 Jaxon Steel Products Co. A full floating wheel wherein the 

 axle is carried by a disk supported on six pure rubber molded 

 wheels which absorb the road shocks encountered by the sur- 

 rounding steel rim solid tire. 



Lambert Trublpruf Tire Co. A laminated solid tire built up 

 with double plies of pictioned duck alternating with thick lay- 

 ers of rublier composition. The latter being pierced crosswise 

 of the treadway by large holes in the two lower layers and 

 staggered upper with lower, thus making a non-puncturable 

 resilient whole. 



Sewell Cushion Wheel Co. A composite wood and rubber 

 wheel tired with an ordinary solid rubber tire. The construc- 

 tion includes a compressable bridge-like molded strip of resilient 

 rubber held between the parts of a double felloe, faced each side 

 by a molded ring of rubber held in place by bolted-on rings. 



Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Co. Exhibited their tire-applying 

 press, adapted for heavy hydraulic duty in moimting and de- 

 mounting solid rubber tires. 



