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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April 1, 1920. 



THE ADVANCE IN TIRE PRICES. 



The long anticipated rise in the price of tires has gone into 

 •effect. It became inevitable when the shortage in the necessary 

 qualities of cotton, and the resultant inability to manufacture in 

 sufficient quantities the fabrics made from it, became known. 

 The increase in tire prices would have been made last October 

 had it not been for the foresight of many companies, which 

 secured supplies for some months ahead. Another cause for 

 higher prices is the reduction in tire prices which many large 

 companies made last spring so that in some cases the present 

 increase merely restores the prices that prevailed before May. 



One of the largest tire companies, by increasing the price of 

 both fabric and cord casings 17'/2 per cent, restores the prices it 

 charged before May; its plain tread fabric tires are 10 per 

 cent below the price of fabric and cord casings, and 5 per cent 

 below their rib-tread cord casings. Tubes have been advanced 

 IS per cent, motorcycle casings and tubes 20 per cent, cord 

 pneumatic truck tires and tubes 20 per cent, solid and cushion 

 tires from 10 to 15 per cent. 



Other large companies have made advances such as these: 

 fabric casings. IS per cent ; cord casings, 20 per cent ; gray tubes, 

 10 per cent; red tubes, 7^2 per cent; fabric and cord tires, 1754 

 per cent; red and gray tubes, 15 per cent; plain tread fabric 

 tires, 25 per cent; fabric non-skid, VA per cent; plain fabric, 

 25 per cent; ribbed cord, 10 per cent; non-skid cord, 8 per cent; 

 ihes and tubes, 15 per cent. 



Apparently one-si.xth of the former price has been added on 

 the average to the cord and fabric tires and from one-tenth to 

 one-eighth to that for tubes. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



William S. Bloomer has been appointed Chicago district man- 

 ager of the Quaker City Rubber Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 



R. W. Ashcroft, who recently resigned as advertising manager 

 oi the United States Rubber Co., New York City, a position he 

 had held for the last four years, and previously advertising man- 

 ager of the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited, Mon- 

 treal, has been appointed director of publicity of the Ames 

 Holden McCready System in the latter city. 



A. C. Frank, e.xport manager of the Firestone Tire & Rubber 

 Co., Akron, Ohio, recently returned to New York City after a 

 three-months trip to England and the Continent. He reports 

 that the industrial activity of Belgium is particularly noticeable 

 and that that country is now rapidly placing its factories on a 

 quantity production basis and rehabilitating the devastated 

 districts. 



Robert S. de Orrell, formerly with the Hartford Rubber 

 Works Co. and the Lee Tire & Rubber Co., has been appointed 

 superintendent of the Washington Tire & Rubber Co., East 

 Sprague avenue, Spokane, Washington. 



J. B. Cothran, who was recently appointed manager for the 

 Globe Rubber Tire Manufacturing Co.'s New York district, is 

 one of the most popular men in the tire business. His head- 

 <3uarters will be 1851 Broadway, New York City. 



Fred B. Geary, who was succeeded by J. B. Cothran, has been 

 .advanced to the position of general factory representative. 



Charles W. Wood, crude rubber broker, 149 Broadway, New 

 York City, who was successfully operated on last month, is 

 rapidly convalescing. 



E. S. Benson, formerly of Detroit, Michigan, has been ap- 

 pointed manager of the New York City office of The Fisk 

 Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, and assumed his new 

 duties March 1. His headquarters are at 1725 Broadway. 



E. B. Tozier has resigned as secretary and general manager of 

 the Century Rubber Works, Chicago. He is now at 1307 Rector 

 Building, Chicago. 



Henry S. Kimball and W. H. Swift have been elected vice- 

 presidents of Gaston, Williams & Wigmore, Inc., international 

 merchants. 39 Broadway, New York City. 



George H. Lincks, who has been in the employ of William H. 

 Scheel, 159 Maiden Lane, New York City, for the past 31 years 

 as chief of staff with full charge of the buying and selling, 

 has resigned and will conduct a general chemical business under 

 the name of George H. Lincks at 106 Wall Street, New York 

 City. 



Robert Allan, formerly manager of the London & Brazilian 

 Bank at Para, Brazil, is now with the American Mercantile 

 Bank of Brazil, Inc., at Para. 



\V. J. Flarris and G. E. James, of the Avon India Rubber Co., 

 Limited, Melksham, Wilts, England, were recently in the United 

 States on the company's business. 



F. O. Holbrook of the Isleworth Rubber Co., Limited, Isle- 

 worth, Middlesex, England, has been in the United States for 

 several weeks in the interest of his company. 



D. MacArthur is now in the United States on a business trip 

 in the interest of the North British Rubber Co., Limited, Edin- 

 burgh, Scotland. 



J. Alfred Corbiey has recently joined the sales force of Tyer 

 Rubber Co., Andover, Massachusetts. Mr. Corbiey was formerly 

 with the Gates Rubber Co., Denver, Colorado, and will cover the 

 Middle Atlantic States. 



AN INCREASED PRODUCTION CONVENTION. 



Seeing in increased production a means of restoring normal 

 business and price conditions, the Chamber of Commerce of the 

 United States will make its eighth annual meeting, to be held at 

 Atlantic City. New Jersey, April 27 to 29, 1920, an "Increased 

 Production Convention." 



The general subject of increased production has been divided 

 up in the program for the convention into sub-subjects. The first 

 to be taken up will be the government in relation to production. 

 Under this heading will be considered anti-trust legislation and 

 taxation, especially the subject of excess profits taxes, against 

 which there has been general complaint. The second general 

 subject to be taken up will be land and water transportation in 

 relation to production. International finance and its relation to 

 world production will be discussed from the point of view of 

 both the financier and the business man. 



One general session of the convention will be given over to 

 agriculture in relation to production and another important gen- 

 eral subject will be the relation of labor to production. 



Besides the general sessions there will be held group meetings, 

 divided as along the great division of industry. In these meet- 

 ings the subject of increased production, as in the general meet- 

 ings, will be the main topic discussed. 



ANNUAL MEETING OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WASTE 

 MATERIAL DEALERS. 



The annual meeting of the National Association of Waste 

 Material Dealers was held at the Hotel Astor, New York, March 

 IS to 17, 1920. The Scrap Rubber Division met on the 15th and 

 chose as chairman for the ensuing year Nat E. Berzen, of the 

 New York firm of the same name. 



Aside from an examination into the conditions the scrap rubber 

 and rubber reclaiming industry is facing, the meeting concerned 

 itself with drafting two resolutions designed to expedite business. 

 The first provided that interest be charged reclaimers on all over- 

 due accounts, and it was voted that a copy of this resolution be 

 sent to all members of the Reclaimers' Division of The Rubber 

 Association of America, as well as to reclaimers outside of this 

 body. 



The second resolution provides that the railroads be asked to 

 change the carload rating on scrap rubber shipments from fifth 

 to sixth class. In the movement to bring this about the secretary 

 was ordered to cooperate with the Reclaimers' Division of The 

 Rubber Association of America, Inc. 



