THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



The 15. & W. Rubber Co., Akron, lias completed its main build- 

 ing. 60 by 240 feet, two stories in height. The machinery for 

 the mechanical department is installed and in operation and that 

 for the tire department is being histalled. It is hoped that the 

 tire department will be in operation by April 1, with a daily 

 production of 150 tires. H. A. Backderf is president of the com- 

 pany. 



CLEVELAND NOTES. 



The Cleveland Osborn Manufacturing Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 

 has changed its name to The Osborn Manufacturing Co., Inc. 



The Tyler-Patterson Co., 404 Superior Building, Cleveland, 

 Ohio, has been formed by Edgar J. Tyler, until recently vice- 

 president and director of Ralph L. Fuller & Co., Inc., and C. B. 

 Patterson, formerly in i-harge of the rubber materials division 

 of the Fuller company. The new concern will act as manufac- 

 turers' agents, brokers and dealers in raw materials for the rub- 

 ber industry and others. 



The Uncle Sam Tire Co. has changed its name to The Hub- 

 bell Tire & Rubber Co., with offices at 6S4S Carnegie avenue, 

 Cleveland, Ohio. It manufactures tires and tire machinery and 

 will install equipment for the manufacture of its own patented 

 tire molds and vulcanizers. The authorized capital has been 

 increased from $200,000 to $1,200,000. 



MISCELLANEOUS OHIO NOTES. 



The Mason Tire & Rubber Co., Kent, Ohio, at its annual 

 stockholders' meeting, elected the following directors for the 

 fiscal year 1920: O. M. Mason, John H. Diehl, R. M. MacKin- 

 non, D. M. Mason, E. G. Tillotson and W. R. Green. These in 

 turn, at the first directors' meeting, elected the following officers : 

 O. M. Mason, president; John H. Diehl, first vice-president; 

 R. W. MacKinnon, second vice-president ; D. M. Mason, treas- 

 urer, and William A. Cluff, secretary. W. J, Rennick and H. W. 

 Sidnell were also appointed assistant treasurer and assistant sec- 

 retary, respectively. 



The Marion Tire & Rubber Co.. Marion, Ohio, was reor- 

 ganized at the beginning of 1920, and its capital increased to 

 $750,000. The new officers are nearly all Akron men. The presi- 

 dent is A. F. Ayers ; vice-president, W. E. Cameron ; secretary, 

 G. W. McLaughlin; treasurer, S. F. Zilliox. The other directors 

 are R. C. Ellsworth and W. A. Patterson, of Akron; C. W. 

 Mapes, J W. Jacoby and R. D. Belden. of Marion, and W. H. 

 Holreistott, of New York. W. A. Patterson was made factory 

 manager. The capacity of the Marion plant at present is 1,500 

 tubes and 400 tires per day, but it is planned to double this 

 production as soon as possible. 



The Ashland Tire & Rubber Co., Ashland, Ohio, expects to 

 complete the first unit of its factory in February. It is 225 feet 

 long and 100 wide, with 45,000 square feet of floor space, and is 

 built of reinforced concrete. The main building, power house, 

 and two smaller buildings will cost approximately $150,000. The 

 machinery has been ordered and a two months' supply of crude 

 rubber purchased. The company will manufacture cord and 

 fabric tires. 



Export arrangements have been made with A. Metzner, of 

 Cleveland, whereby George \V. Bond will represent the Ashland 

 company on his present trip abroad. He will visit England, 

 Czecho-Slovakia, Germany and Austria, and other Central Euro- 

 pean nations. 



The Ashland Tire & Rubber Co. was incorporated in June, 

 1919, with $500,000 capital stock, of which it has sold more than 

 $350,000 to date. The officers of the company are: J. Fickel, 

 president ; G. C. Weyher, vice-president, and A. A. Fickel, secre- 

 tary and treasurer. The president and H. C. Bate, one of the 

 directors, left in January on a three weeks' business trip to Cuba 

 to make a careful study of that market for automobile and truck 

 tires. 



The India Tire & Rubber Co., Mogadore, Ohio, has just com- 

 pleted the new building south of its initial structure, besides 

 improving the older building. At the annual meeting on January 

 19, stockholders were asked to ratify an increase in the capital 

 stock from $1,500,000 to $5,000,000, this increase having been 

 acted on favorably by the board of directors to take care of 

 increasing business. 



Plans for increasing the capital of the Interlocking Cord Tire 

 & Belt Co., of Mogadore, was decided upon at a stockholders' 

 meeting, held recently, but no definite announcement has been 

 made as to the amount. The company is made up of 125 Akron 

 business men. For the past year it has manufactured 30 by 3. 

 tires, but arrangements are now being made to include other 

 sizes. The purpose of the new capital is said to be to bring the 

 capacity of the factory to 1,000 tires per day. 



The McGraw Tire & Rubber Co. at the annual meeting of stock- 

 holders held at East Palestine, Ohio,' on January 12, 1920, elected 

 officers for the ensuing year : E. C. McGraw, president ; John 

 Morgan and R. W. McGraw, vice-presidents; John Morgan, 

 treasurer ; L. M. Kyes, secretary ; H. C. Johnston, assist- 

 ant secretary. Directors : E. C. McGraw, John Morgan. R. 

 W. McGraw, L. M. Kyes, George Flaccus, J. C. Chamberlin. 

 S. L. McCune, William Leary, A. W. Henn and H. M. Bacon. 



During 1919 the business each month showed substantial in- 

 creases over the previous year's record. In 1920 new branches 

 will be added to the fourteen already established. The officers 

 deny emphatically the rumors of the sale or tuerger of the com- 



F. E. Kaeppel, recently associated with the Mechanical Rubber 

 Co., Chicago, Illinois, and formerly with the Federal Rubber 

 Co., Cudahy, Wisconsin, has been appointed general sales man- 

 ager of the newly organized Ohio State Rubber Tire Co., Port 

 Clinton, Ohio, which builds tires and tubes for the jobbing trade- 

 exclusively. Mr. Kaeppel will have sole charge of the company's 

 sales throughout the United States. 



TRAILERS TO CUT THE COST OF MOTOR HAtJLAGE. 



More than half a billion dollars a year is being spent unneces- 

 sarily in the United States for road haulage by motor truck. 

 Some 600,000 trucks throughout the country are rendering an 

 annual service of about 7.950,000,000 ton miles at a cost not 

 far from $1,828,500,000. This is based on an average operating 

 cost of 23 cents per ton-mile. 



Tables of operating costs of trailers and semi-trailers show the 

 cost to vary from about three and one-half cents to six and 

 one-half cents per ton-mile, according to type and size of trailer. 

 This indicates five cents as an average, but to be conservative, 

 an average of ten cents per ton-mile is taken as the basic cost 

 of haulage with trailers and semi-trailers. 



If every motor truck were to draw one trailer or semi-trailer 

 of the same load capacity as the truck, half the total tonnage 

 would be carried on the trailers at a saving of 13 cents per ton- 

 mile or a total of $516,750,000 annually in the nation's motor 

 haulage bill. This is the solution if the cost of motor haulage 

 at distances greater than fifty miles is to be reduced materially 

 and put on a competitive basis. 



Incidentally 600,000 trailers would call for 1,200,000 to 2,400.000 

 tires for original equipment and from 300,000 to 600.000 spare 

 tires besides. 



"Crude Rubber and Compounding Ingredients" and "Rub-- 

 BER Machinery /' by Henry C. Pearson, should' be in the library 

 of every progressive rubber man. 



