THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February 1, 1920. 



Cuiistructii)ii work is going lorward rapidly on the new build- 

 ing being erected for the Miller Rubber Co. of California at 1239 

 South Olive Street, Los Angeles. The building, owned by Jona- 

 than R. Scott, will cost $26,000. It is a two-story brick structure 

 especially designed for the local branch of the company. 



Harold Austin Freeman, a graduate of the University of South- 

 ern California, class of 1916, is to be in charge of the chemical 

 laboratory of the Goodyear plant at Los Angeles. 



\ew Year's greetings from Frank R. Carroll, head of The B. 

 F. Goodrich Co. interests in the Orient have been received in Los 

 Angeles, lie was formerly in charge of the Los Angeles branch, 

 but was assigned to Japan, where American tires are making 

 tremendous gains. 



VV. S. Thatcher, of the Los Angeles branch of the Brunswick- 

 Balke-Collender Co. tire department, has received word of the 

 expansion plans of the concern, by which the capacity of the 

 plant has been doubled. Samuel J. Turnes, general sales man- 

 ager in California, accompanied by E. Tatman, assistant sales 

 manager, recently paid a visit to Los Angeles. 



Louis Lichtenberger, president of the Lichtenberger-Ferguson 

 Co.. factory distributor of Norwalk tires in Los Angeles, says 

 that January- is a heavy buying month in the tire trade while 

 December is the slowest month of the year. The low ebb is due 

 to weather conditions and to the fact that dealers do not want 

 to carry a big stock through their annual inventory period which 

 usually takes place the first of each year. According to Mr. 

 Lichtenberger, the following is a table of percentage for the 

 year's distribution of tires throughout the country based on three 

 years" records : 



Month. 



Month. 



Per Cent. 

 . 10 4/10 

 . 9 5/10 



February 8 4/10 August 



March 10 3/10 September 



April 8 3/10 October 6 4/10 



May 9 8/10 November 4 9/10 



June 10 1/10 December 4 7/10 



Marshall E. Morris, manager of salesmen for The Goodyear 

 Tire & Rubber Co., has been appointed a member of the board 

 of directors of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., of California. 

 Mr. Morris first came to the Goodyear company as manager 

 of the carriage tire department in 1912. Since that time his rise 

 has been remarkable even for the rubber industry. 



Frank Westerhoflf, who formerly represented the Standard 

 Four Tire Co., Keokuk, Iowa, in Illinois, has been appointed 

 manager for the company at its branch at 348 West Pico street, 

 Los Angeles. 



A movement has been started to make Los Angeles, California, 

 the terminus of the Lincoln Highway. The proposal is to estab- 

 lish a branch of the great trancontinental highway from Ely, 

 Nevada, to the California city, a distance of 770 miles. Ely is 

 the first town reached after crossing the desert section of the 

 Great Salt Lake country. 



NOETHWESTEHN NOTES. 



Leavens & Howard, of Portland, Oregon. Pacific Northwest 

 distributers for the Sewall cushion wheel for trucks, have opened 

 a branch in Seattle. 



The Western Rubber Co. has begun to manufacture tires in its 

 new plant in South Tacoma, Washington. Machinery was in- 

 stalled early in the year, there being some little delay in getting 

 shipments. The plant is so located that raw rubber can be 

 handled from ship side to the factorj' direct. The plant started 

 with a working force of 125 men. Elmer Dover, former secretary 

 of the Republican National Committee, and later Pacific Coast 

 manager for Byllesby & Co., operators of public service plants, 

 is president of the concern. 



The Washington Tire & Rubber Co., Spokane, Washington, 

 started operations in a small way in May, 1919, and entered its' 



first full year's production January 1, 1920. The production will 

 reach 200 casings and 200 tubes a day during February, to be 

 increased from month to month. At the present time 120 workers 

 are employed, 94 per cent of whom are stockholders in the 

 company. 



Although its estimated production for 1920 was placed at 60,- 

 000 casings and 40,000 tubes, it is believed that the demand for 

 its product, which is being marketed under the trade name 

 "Western States," will increase to 100.000 casings and 100,000 

 lubes this year. At present fabric tires only are made, but later 

 cord tires will be manufactured. 



The officers of the company are all representative and well 

 known Spokane business men. The president is A. G. Hanauer, 

 vice-president, T. S. Lane, and secretary-treasurer H S Bur- 

 dick. 



CANADIAN NOTES. 



fyHE NEW PRICE LIST on rubber footwear was issued in Canada 

 1 on December 26, 1919, instead of two months later as is 

 usual. The prices are considerably higher than the old list, 

 being appro.ximately from 10 to 15 per cent more on light lines 

 and from 15 to 20 and 25 per cent on other goods. Advances 

 in the cost of raw stocks and labor are given as the reasons 

 for the issuing of the new price list at the earlier date. 



The Canadian Board of Commerce, on November 26, 1919, 

 issued an order that the margin of gross profit on sales of 

 boots, shoes, rubbers, overshoes, etc., in retail shoe stores shall 

 not e.xceed 33'/} per cent of the sale price. 



Gutta Percha & Rubber, Limited, held a meeting of branch 

 managers in Toronto recently, at the King Edward Hotel. The 

 Ontario division extends to Brockville in the East, to Sarnia 

 in the West, and to North Bay in the North. 



The Canadian Shoe Manufacturers' Association held its annual 

 convention in Quebec City, at Chateau Frontenac, Januarv 20-21. 



The Ames Holden McCready System, Rubber Section, has 

 appointed H. A. Braendle, M. A., physicist in charge of its 

 Montreal laboratories and H. F. Schippel, B. Sc, research en- 

 gineer. Mr. Braendle is a g raduate of the University of Toronto 

 where he conducted research work on colloids under Professor 

 E. F. Burton, while Mr. Schippel was formerly on the staflf 

 of McGill University. Both men were also more recentiv with 

 the general laboratories of the Canadian Consolidated Rubber 

 Co., Limited. 



W. B. Wiegand, formerly general technical superintendent 

 of the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited, has been 

 appointed director of manufacturing for the Rubber Section of 

 the Ames Holden McCready System, Montreal, Quebec. 



The British & Foreign Agencies, Limited, 17 St. John street 

 Montreal, Quebec, has secured the exclusive Canadian agency 

 ■for "Lastawl" fibrous rubber soling manufactured by The 

 "Lastawl" Co., 132 Boundary street, Liverpool, England.. 



The Canadian Customs Department has ruled on the duties 

 to be levied on a number of articles containing rubber, making 

 them invariably higher than the British preferential rates The 

 rates are: Behing, not of leather, 27'A per cent ad valorem; 

 belts, other than transmission belts, 17y, per cent; finished parts 

 of garters and hose supporters, 20 per cent; brake lining, 30 

 per cent. The last article is subject in addition to a war tax 

 of /'A per cent ad valorem. 



Quebec in 1918 exported 159,175 tons of asbestos and asbestic 

 ly^'^tni .^■?^\^^^' ^' <^o™P"ed with 154,452 tons, valued at 

 $7,240,697 ,n 1917. The stock on hand December 31, 1918 was 

 14,609 tons of the value of $2,085,395. The average value per ton 

 of asbestos in 1918 was $63.35, as against $52,45 in 1917. Of the 

 1918 exports 6,518,687, more than two-thirds, went to the United 

 States. 



