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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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have had agencies in tlie principal markets of the world, London, 

 Para, Manaos, Singapore, Batavia, Meclan, and Ceylon, with 

 many correspondents throughout South America and the Orient. 



C KENYON CO. TO MANUFACTURE CORD TIRES. 



On April 1, the C. Kenyon Co., Brooklyn, New York, oper- 

 ating the largest fabric rubberizing plant in the United States, 

 started manufacturing Kenyon Cords, a new high-grade cord 



Kexvons' Pi-ANT, Bav Ridoe. Brooklyn. 



Back of the Kenyon entry into the tire manufacturing field 

 are over sixty years of experience in handling and manipula- 

 tion of rubber, and the resources of a great plant equipped with 

 modern tire-making machinery. 



The decision of the Kenyon company to make cord tires is 

 a logical development of their business and previous history. 

 Starting in 18S7, the company had acquired through long and 

 varied experience an intimate and unique knowledge of rubber, 

 its compounding, and its application to fabric. The two plants 

 on Pacific street, Brooklyn, and on the Bay Ridge waterfront 

 employ nearly 3,000 persons, and the products range from rain- 

 coals to the large rubber blankets used in offset printing plants. 

 The company has been successful in producing cord fabrics for 

 other tire manufacturers, and it is natural, in view of this, 

 that the Kenyon brothers should decide to begin the manufacture 

 of tires. 



Kenyo> 



The Kenyon company intends to produce oversize cord tires 

 of the highest grade exclusively. Furthermore, the Kenyons 

 have patented a new tread of rectangular form and truly non- 

 skid properties because it offers a straight line resistance to 

 both the side and forward skid. The tires are to be made at 

 the Bay Ridge factory, a building of modern concrete construc- 

 tion and equipment, completed only last year, and having an 

 initial capacity of 500 tires daily with provision for enlargement. 



Besides every mechanical feature known to make the building 

 safe, the factory contains such provisions for the service and 

 health of the employes as a cafeteria with food at cost, recrea- 

 tion and smoking rooms, a roof garden and a finely-equipped 

 hospital with a competent medical staff. 



GOVERNMENT SALE OF HIP BOOTS AND OVERSHOES. 



The director of sales of the War Department announced that 

 the Surplus Property Division of the Quartermaster General's 

 office had disposed of rubber goods at the subjoined prices, on 

 the bids received up to the afternoon of February IS, 1920: 



New rubber hip boots : 120 pairs at $4.00, 120 at $3.65, 600 at 

 $3,271, 2,000 at $3.25, 120 at $3.15, 240 at $3.10, 3,000 at $3,065, 

 1,000 at $3,015, 120 at $3.00, 840 at $2.90, 5,740 at $2.85, 1,200 at 

 $2,775, and 48,520 at $2.75, nearly all of the last to one company. 



New all rubber overshoes : 200 at $2.05, 200 at $2.00, 200 at 

 $1.75, 2,400 at $1.50, 6,142 at $1.49, 250 at $1,465, 1,000 at $1.45, 

 200 at $1.41, 2,000 at $1.40, 4.480 at $1.35, 1,000 at $1.33, and 67,440 

 to one company at $1.29. 



GEORGE W. SHERMAN, SALVAGE EXPERT. 



GEORGE W. Sherman, for many years connected with The 

 B. F. Goodrich Co., and now devoting his time to the 

 development of the Akron Industrial Salvage Co. and other 



personal interests, graduated from 



the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology in 1894 and immedi- 

 ately became coiniected with Col- 

 gate & Co., soap manufacturers, 

 as assistant mechanical engineer. 

 He was later identified with the 

 Boston Woven Hose & Rubber 

 Co. as master mechanic, and sub- 

 sequently entered business for 

 himself in Boston as a consulting 

 mechanical engineer. 



Late in 1901 he came to .A.kron 

 and was sent to Liverpool, Eng- 

 land, by the stockholders of The 

 Diamond Rubber Co.. which at 

 that time owned the Northwestern 

 Rubber Co., of Liverpool. This 

 company was engaged largely in 

 reclaiming rubber, and Mr. Sherr 

 tendent. Coming back to Akron several years later, he became 

 the first mechanical engineer of the Alkali Rubber Co., now 

 The Philadelphia Ruliber Works Co. In 1908 he returned to 

 the Diamond Rubber Co. and assumed charge of all by-product, 

 scrap and salvage work, continuing as the head of these depart- 

 ments and in the same capacity for The B. F. Goodrich Co. 

 after the consolidation, until his resignation on January 1 of 

 this year. 



It was during the war that Sherman organized the Akron 

 Industrial Salvage Co., having as its members one hundred and 

 twenty-five Akron manufacturers and merchants. The value 

 that these members gained from their waste products so increased 

 the scope of the work that it now calls for practically all of 

 Mr. Sherman's time. His plan of organization was so thorough 

 and effective that the Department of Commerce issued a special 

 government bulletin dealing with the detailed development of 

 the plan and its vast possibilities. 



In addition to his other activities, Mr. Sherman is also in 

 charge of the chemical department of The McAdoo-Akron Co., 

 a new corporation recently organized to manufacture a rubber- 

 ized cotton work glove. 





George W. Sherman. 

 served there as superin- 



