THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



381 



funds derived from the sale of the stock will be used has not 

 been announced. 



The Amazon Rubber Co. has been bought by a syndicate 

 headed by Dr. E. E. Quirk, an Akron financier. The capitaliza- 

 tion of the company is to be raised from $400,000 to $1,500,000 

 in order to finance a material increase in the output of the com- 

 pany. A new site has been obtained and the first unit of a new 

 plant will be built this year. 



The Doyle Tire & Rubber Co., Doyle Block, Akron, has or- 

 ganized with the following officers : Dayton A. Doyle, Jr., presi- 

 dent and treasurer; Myron J. Sophy, vice-president and sales 

 managt-r; F. 11. Kelsey, vice-president; and Arthur W. Doyle, 

 secretary. 



The conii)any will build a factory one story high with base- 

 ment, 410 by 54 feet, on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, in the 

 suburbs of the East Akron district. 



The H. B. Bi.xler Co., Ohio Building, Akron, organized by 

 II. B. Bi.xler, a consulting engineer, has taken over and is 

 operating the Denmead Rubber Co., a heel manufacturing com- 

 pany. The consideration for the plant is said to have been 

 $160,000. 



The following changes in personnel have been made at the 

 factory of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., i\kron : James E. 

 Hale, appointed manager of the rim and wheel department ; Wil- 

 liam S. Wolfe, promoted from technical service division to head 

 of tire design division ; Walter B. Keith succeeding Mr. Wolfe. 



With the promotion of I. R. Bailey, manager of the mechanical 

 goods department of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., to the 

 position of assistant sales manager, two other changes in the 

 Goodyear organization are announced. D. R. Burr, formerly 

 assistant manager of the mechanical goods department becomes 

 manager as successor to Mr. Bailey. Mr. Burr in turn is suc- 



C. A. Jones 



I. R. B.MI.EY 



D. R. Burr. 



ceeded by C. A. Jones who has served as manager of the hose, 

 railroad supplies and rubber band departments of the inechanical 

 goods division. 



D. R. Burr has been with the Goodyear company since 1913, 

 joining the company as assistant manager of the mechanical goods 

 department of the Chicago district after having served in a like 

 capacity and also as salesman for a competitive rubber concern. 

 In June, 1916. he was transferred to Akron and made Mr. 

 Bailey's assistant. Recently he returned from an eleven months' 

 trip to Australia where he made an extensive industrial survey. 

 Mr. Burr was educated at Columbus, Ohio, and started his 

 business career there as a bill clerk with a wholesale hardware 

 concern, later launching into business for himself in Miami 

 County, Ohio, where he was engaged in the sale of mill supplies. 



C. A. Jones is a "rubber city" product. He was born and 

 educated in .Akron, joining the Goodyear company eight years 

 ago. Prior to that time he was with other rubber concerns in 

 estimating cost work on rubber specialties and as assistant in 

 charge of production. Mr. Jones joined Goodyear when the 



mechanical goods department consisted only of molded goods 

 such as tiling, bumpers and rubber soles and heels, and sold the 

 first thousand pairs of Goodyear rubber soles to shoe manu- 

 facturing concerns. 



Duffy & Sears, crude rubber brokers, 133 Front street, New 

 York City, have opened an Akron office in the Central Savings 

 & Trust Building, with Sidney Dillingham in charge. 



The Frank Dunbar Co., 610 Flatiron Building, .Akron, dealing 

 in crude rubl>er, has appointed George R. MacDonald assistant 

 manager of the Al<ron office. 



Albert V. W. Tallman, New York City, crude rubber broker, 

 has opened an office at 512 Ohio Building, .Akron, under the di- 

 rection of George S. Schworm. 



Nineteen nineteen, was a record business year for the Miller 

 Rubber Co. of .Akron, Ohio, sales having increased nearly $10,- 



Pl.\nt of The Mi 



Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. 



000,000 over the previous year. The sales which amounted to 

 $1,914,443 in 1913 have risen to $16,522,707 in 1918 and $26,- 

 495,482 in 1919; it is now anticipated that in 1920 they will be 

 at least $40,000,000. During 1919 new branches were established 

 in Albany, New York ; Cedar Rapids, Iowa ; Charlotte, North 

 Carolina ; El Paso, Te.xas ; Erie, Pennsylvania ; Great Falls, 

 Montana; Jacksonville, Florida; Memphis, Tennessee; Oakland 

 and San Francisco, California. Since January 1, 1920, branches 

 have been opened in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Phoenix, Arizona, 

 and the establishment of branches in twelve other cities is be- 

 ing considered. 



The Akron shops of the Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Co. have 

 taken on a complete line of rubber machinery and owing to the 

 unprecedented demand they have run to full capacity for prac- 

 tically the entire year. The orders now booked will keep the 

 shops running from six to seven months at the same rate, and 

 to make deliveries some of this work has been transferred to 

 the Cleveland shops. 



CLEVELAND NOTES. 



The Osborn Manufacturing Co., 5401 Hamilton avenue, Cleve- 

 land, has acquired the charter of the New Y'ork corporation of 

 the same name. In November last, the Osborn company in- 

 creased its capital to $2,000,000 and doubled its plant capacity. 

 Branches and warehouses are maintained at New York, De- 

 troit, San Francisco, Milwaukee, and Chicago. The company also 

 maintains its, own representative on foundry molding machines 

 in Europe, in addition to its agencies which include The Allied 

 Machinery Co. of America in France and Italy; Isbecque & Co. 

 in Belgium ; and J. W. Jackman & Co. in England. 



The Owen Tire & Rubber Co., Cleveland, will increase its 

 capital stock from $1,750,000 to $3,000,000 for the purpose of ob- 

 taining additional working capital and adding to its plant and 

 equipment. It expects to have its new building ready for oc- 

 cupancy about July 1. 



The Zenith Tire & Rubber Co., Leader Building, Cleveland, 

 expects to build a factory in Cleveland for the manufacture of 

 tires and tubes. 



