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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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years past the plant has been operating to full capacity, twenty- 

 four hours a day, in the eftort to meet the growing demand, 

 domestic and foreign, for the company's wares. 



The fabric used by the Pioneer Rubber Mills is made from 

 California long-staple cotton, grown in the Imperial valley and 

 ginned and spun in California. Almost all of the cotton duck 

 used is wiiven on the company's own looms. 



LOS ANGELES NOTES. 



W. A. Messick, Los Angeles, has applied for a patent on a 

 pneumatic rubber cushion for the top of crutches; also for one 

 on a similar cushion for butt ends of rifles and shotguns.' 



Harry H. Anderson, Los Angeles, who, though still in his 

 early twenties, has attained prominence in the tire industry, has 

 been made sales manager for Hess & Hackett, distributers of 

 Oldfield tires. 



Frank R. Carroll, former Los Angeles branch manager and 

 later district manager of The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., has 

 been appointed vice-chairman of the board of directors of the 

 Yokohama Rubber Co., Limited, the Japanese subsidiary of the 

 Goodrich company. 



In the financing of the new Coast Tire & Rubber Companies 

 Securities, a $1,000,000 California corporation, an inducement is 

 offered prospective stockholders of 15 per cent discount on tires 

 and tubes, besides 8 per cent dividend on their investment. C. L. 

 Stackhouse, 327 Douglas Building, Los Angeles, is district 

 manager. 



Charles \V. Seiberling, brother of Frank A. Seiberling, presi- 

 dent of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, was 

 recently in Los Angeles with the com.pany's mechanical engineer, 

 W. C. State, and will plan to establish at the company's plant now 

 being built in Los Angeles a recreation department that may 

 even surpass that strong feature of the parent works in Ohio. 



The Huntington Rubber Co., Los Angeles, has installed equip- 

 ment for salvaging not only solid tires for trucks, but also giant 

 pneumatics up to ten inches, such as are used on the heavy passen- 

 ger stages and the freight motor cars on various routes between 

 Seattle and San Diego. Up to recently the tire wastage on stage 

 lines meant a serious loss, but as means have been found to 

 restore old tires to almost maximum efficiency at about a third 

 the cost of new ones, the transportation companies through this 

 saving are now in a better position to offset the general rise in 

 the cost of labor and materials. 



Giant pneumatic tires are gradually supplanting heavy soli-l 

 tires on motor stages that run between San Diego and San Fran 

 Cisco, California. The fine roads and the temperate climatt- 

 are, of course, favoring factors for big pneumatics. Fully 500 

 cars, carrying on an average 10.000 people, leave the Union 

 Stage Terminal in Los Angeles daily, and the extension of the 

 stage transportation service as far north as the Canadian border 

 is contemplated. 



John F. Scanlon, advertising manager of the United States 

 Compression Inner Tube Co., Tulsa, Oklahoma, was given a 

 dinner recently by his Los Angeles newspaper friends at the Hotel 

 Alexandria. 



Sufficient headway has been made in the construction of the 

 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Los Angeles, to warrant 

 the projectors in saying that the factory, which will employ 10,000 

 workers at full capacity, will start manufacturing by June 1. 



A new building is about to be erected by the J. B. Wood' Tire 

 & Rubber Co. at Third street and Central avenue, Los Angeles, 

 as a distributing station for Hewitt tires, .tubes, and mechanical 



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rubber goods, the sale of which the Wood concern controls in 

 Southern Califoria, .Xrizona, and Western Texas. 



The Los .Angeles Horseshoe Tire Co., of which Charles Daley 

 is manager, and which was recently appointed by the Pacific 

 Rubber Co. as general Los Angeles distributer of Horseshoe tires 

 and tubes, has been obliged, through increase in business, to move 

 into larger quarters at 1037 South Figuerra street. 



Dr. P. J. S. Cramer, of Amsterdam, Holland, the eminent au- 

 thority on rubber botany, has been touring in the United States. 

 He gave two lectures recently in Los Angeles and it is likely he 

 will speak at several .American universities before returninu to 

 Europe. 



The Pacific Coast branch of the Standard Four Tire Co., Keo- 

 kuk, Iowa, is at 342 West Pico street, Los Angeles. 



SAN FRANCISCO NOTES. 



The Michelin Tire Co. of California, 1644 Pine street, San 

 Francisco, has completed plans and specifications for its new- 

 warehouse on 12th street between Mission and Howard. The 

 new building will be 120 by 100 feet, and have a private spur 

 track, which is now under construction. In addition to provid- 

 ing storage space for the new Michelin disk wheel, which is 

 just being placed on the market, there will be included in the 

 structure a conference room and separate lunch rooms for men 

 and women employes. The San Francisco organization is a 

 subsidiary of the Michelin Tire Co., Milltown_, New Jersey. 



Weinstock-Nichols Co.. San Francisco, one of the largest dis- 

 tributers of motor car accessories in California, has been ap- 

 pointed by the Hewitt .Rubber Co. as distributers for Hewitt tires 

 in the northern section of the state. This concern, which has 

 Ijranches in the leading cities of California, will distribute Hewitt 

 tires exclusively. 



CANADIAN DUNLOP COMPANY BUILDING NEW TIRE PLANT. 



The Dunliip Tire & Rubber Goods Co., Limited, of Canada, 

 with headquarters in Toronto and branches ni fourteen other 



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 description and illustration of 

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cities and town; in Canada, is building and equipping a new 

 factory in Toronto for which $1,500,000 has been appropriated. 

 The building, here represented, is being rushed to completion; 

 it is 400 feet long, 80 feet wide, with four stories and basement. 

 It will be devoted especially to the manufacture of Dunlop cord 

 tires. 



The expansion is part of the aggressive campaign started by 

 the Dunlop Rubber Co.. Limited, of England, which besides its 

 close connection with the Dunlop companies in France, Italy, 

 Japan and Australia has recently started Dunlop America Lim- 

 ited in the United States. The Canadian company, which shares 

 in the formulas, processes, methods and investigations of the 

 British and other Dunlop companies, announces that it will co- 

 operate with and will be closely connected with the United States 

 company. 



