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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March 1, 1920. 



The Stockwell Rubber Co., Inc., 229 North Twelfth street, 

 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been appointed sole agent of 

 the Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co., Cambridge, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



The Lineatime Manufacturing Co., Inc., Rochester, New Yorl<, 

 manufacturer of the "Line-a-Time'' copyholder having a number 

 of rubber parts, has increased its capital from $50,000 to $150,000. 



The Philadelphia Rubber Works Co., Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 

 vania, is to erect a $4,000,000 reclaiming plant at Buflfalo, New 

 York, where it has purchased 97 acres of land on the Niagara 

 river road. Construction has already begun on the first unit, 

 which will have a capacity of 2,000,000 pounds per month 

 finished weight of reclaimed rubber. The reasons given for 

 going to Buffalo are the land available and the proximity to 

 the water power of Niagara Falls. The company's plant at 

 Akron will be maintained, the one at Buffalo being intended 

 to take care of future expansion. 



Tyrus Cobb, the baseball player, has been signed as a sales- 

 man for the Ty Cobb-Bill Sanford Tire Co., of Augusta, Georgia, 

 distributors of Goodrich tires in the South. 



The Courier Rubber Co., Inc., 150 Nassau street. New York 

 City, has been established to push the sale of the Courier red 

 floating inner tube. The officers are Robert E. Clift and Wil- 

 liam D. Laurie, president and vice-president, respectively, both 

 formerly with Frazar & Co., 30 Church street. New York City, 

 and Paul Cooksey, secretary and treasurer. 



The Overman Cushion Tire Co., Inc., 250 West S4th street, 

 New York City, will build a two-story addition to its factory, 

 SO by 138 feet, for use as a machine shop, service station, as- 

 sembling and painting. It is e.xpected that the new structure 

 will be finished by May 1. 



The K., F. & C. Tire & Rubber Corp., Roanoke, Virginia, has 

 recently purchased 15 acres of property, with several buildings 

 of reinforced concrete, at Roanoke, as a unit of its factory for 

 the manufacture of its cord tire, which is neither a solid, pneu- 

 matic nor cushion tire, but a built-up tire of rubber, cords and 

 cord fabrics such as are used in pneumatic tires. This was 

 described in The India Rubber World, August 1, 1918. The 

 company has patents in the United States, Great Britain, Canada 

 and the other British colonies, France and Italy, and has applied 

 for patents in other countries. The company expects to instal' 

 $200,000 worth of machinery during the coming summer. 



The Pennsylvania Rubber Co., Jeannette, Pennsylvania, has 

 elected the following officers for the ensuing year : directors — 

 Herbert DuPuy, H. Wilfred DuPuy, Charles M. DuPuy, Seneca 

 G. Lewis, and George W. Daum; Herbert DuPuy, chairman 

 of the board ; H. Wilfred DuPuy, president ; Charles M. DuPuy, 

 vice-president; Seneca G. Lewis, vice-president and general man- 

 ager; George W. Daum, assistant general manager; A. H. Price, 

 treasurer; George W. Shiveley, secretary; James Q. Goudie, 

 general sales director; C. G. Morrill, assistant treasurer; H. H. 

 Salmon, purchasing agent. 



In order to insure the carrying out of plans now under way 

 for expansion in proportion to growth and to stabilize the 

 policies of the company, a definite arrangement was made to 

 retain Mr. Lewis for five years more, he having already com- 

 pleted ten years of service. As heretofore, the business will 

 be built from the inside out and men and women promoted 

 from the ranks when possible. Mr. Lewis is of the opinion that 

 new plants should be built only to take care of the demand for 

 the company's products and not before the business to run them 

 has been obtained. 



The Allen Machine Company, of Erie, Pennsylvania, has 

 opened a New York office at 17 West 42nd street in order to care 

 properly for their eastern and export trade. Morris A. Pearson, 

 who is a well known rubber machinery engineer, is in charge. 



The Akron Tire Co., Inc., Honeywell street and Skillman 

 avenue, Long Island City, New York, has changed its name 

 to Akron Overland Tire Co. and increased its capital stock $750,- 

 000. It was incorporated in October, 1919, under the laws of 

 Delaware, with 100,000 shares of stock without nominal or 

 par value. 



The Farrel Foundry & Machine Co., Ansonia, Connecticut, 

 has purchased at Buffalo, New York, where it will establish 

 a new branch, the "Victory" turbine plant of the Bethlehem 

 Shipbuilding Co. at Vulcan avenue and the New York Central 

 railroad, al a cost of $431,000. This includes power plant, of- 



Farrel Foundry & Machine Co.'s Buffalo Plant 



fice, restaurant, welfare and hospital buildings, in addition to 

 the main building 225 by 700 feet, and 12 acres of land. The 

 company has also acquired 33 additional acres of land for ex- 

 pansion. 



The Poole Engineering & Machine Co. has removed its gen- 

 eral sales office from 50 Church street. New York City, to its 

 works at Baltimore, Maryland, where mail should be directed. 

 It will still maintain a district ofiice at the New York City 

 address, however. 



Taintor Trading Co., Inc., 9 State street. New York City, 

 has incorporated to do a general trading business including the 

 importation of chalk, English cliffstone, china clay, etc., under 

 the management of Starr Taintor, president. 



The Sinclair Rubber Co., Inc., 1679 Broadway, New York 

 City, incorporated in September, 1919, has a factory at 2864 

 Webster avenue, where it manufactures a rebuilt tire which is 

 intended to counteract the popular impression that rebuilt tires 

 are unsatisfactory. 



H. Schatia & Co., 100 Fifth avenue. New York City, are sell- 

 ing an Australian wool-filled fabric to manufacturers of raincoats 

 in this country. It is of especially shaggy texture of a type 

 current in prevailing English overcoatings and ulster cloths and 

 offers in ten different shades. The manager of the fabrics for 

 rubber clothing department is R. G. Bryant, a son of Geo. C. 

 Bryant, formerly manager of the Chicago Rubber Clothing Co., 

 Racine, Wisconsin, now operating in rubber clothing in Mil- 

 waukee under his own name. 



RUBBER DIVISION OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 



The Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society will 

 meet in St. Louis, Missouri, April 14-15, and extends an invita- 

 tion to al! rubber chemists and technologists to attend. Since 

 the rubber chemist has ordinarily to deal with technical problems 

 not entirely chemical, much material is usually presented at these 

 meetings which is of general interest. One such item to be dis- 

 cussed at the next meeting is the report of the committee on 

 "Physical Testing." 



Authors desiring to submit papers for presentation at the 

 meeting should send the titles of the papers, together with ab- 

 stracts, to A. H. Smith, Research Laboratory, The Goodyear Tire 

 & Rubber Co., Akron. Ohio, by March 25. 



