Mav 1, 1920.) 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



527 



THE RUBBER TRADE ON THE PACIFIC COAST. 



By Our Regular r<i;;r.v/',.;n/,-i,/ 

 LOS ANGELES NOTES. 



Mini OF THE SLCCESS of thc youiig aiid flourishing Samson 

 Tire & Rubber Corporation, Los Angeles, California, 

 is due to the energetic president and general manager, Adolph 

 Schleiclier, who founded the cor- 

 poration, although he modestly 

 gives the major part of the credit 

 to his loyal and capable cowork- 

 ers. Mr. Schleicher is a graduate 

 ■ >f Purdue University, Indiana., 

 where he specialized in civil en- 

 gineering. After building plants 

 for thc Home Telephone Co. in 

 1 ndianapolis. the Columbus, 

 Greene, and Richmond traction 

 companies and part of the Mc- 

 Kinley Traction Co.'s plant, he 

 became vice-president of the Mu- 

 tual Tire & Rubber Co. of New 

 York. He is a director and was 

 formerly president of the Mon- 

 terey Land Co., and for eight 

 years was president of the Pa- 

 ). of Los Angeles. Mr. Schleicher 

 International Electric Co. of Dela- 

 larger one. 



.^DOLPH Schleicher. 



Slope Development Ci 



also president of the 



• until that concern was merged 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. of California is making 

 a special effort to finish its flying field in Los Angeles. The 

 aerodrome and its equipment is reported to be the finest in the 

 country excepting only those built by the Federal Government. 

 .\ complete hangar for dirigible airships is being added to the 

 four airplane hangars the company already has on its 80-acre 

 aviation field, part of a 320-acre reservation, adjoining the new 

 plant at the old Ascot race track. The flying field has been 

 loaned to the city and is three-quarters of a mile long by half a 

 mile wide. It will ofTer every facility for airmen to land and 

 replenish their supplies. While the airship hangar will house 

 any heavier-than-air balloon, it will be largely used for shelter- 

 ing the new 9S-foot "pony blimp" which the company exhibited 

 at the recent San Francisco aero show. The manufacture of such 

 dirigibles on a commercial scale will soon be part of the routine 

 of the company's work. The first "blimp" will be used for the 

 company's dispatches between here and Phoenix, Arizona, the 

 center of thc Goodyear cotton plantations. 



Xel.son & Price. Los Angeles, have taken over the distribution 

 cif India tires, made by the India Tire & Rubber Co.. .^kron, 

 Ohio, for southern California and New Mexico. 



The Ideal Rubber Company, formerlj" at 203 West SOth street, 

 Los .■\ngclcs. has removed to 5019 Moncta avenue. 



.'V decided advantage to present and prospective tire manufac- 

 turers in Southern California is expected through the operations 

 of the newly-formed International Commerce Corporation, which 

 intends to establish a direct shipping service between Los .An- 

 geles and the Dutch East Indies, as well as British India. New 

 Zealand and Australia. The concern is well financed and has 

 already set up agencies in twenty-eight American cities to look 

 after exports and imports. 



A concern starting under favorable auspices in the tire-scllins 

 line is the newly-incorporated Guasti, House & Giulli, Inc.. 

 with handsome salesrooms at 737 Terminal street, Los Angeles. 

 The company has contracted with the Perfection Tire & Rubber 

 Co.. Fort Madison, Iowa, for an exceptionally large order of 

 tires, thereby securing the sole agency for California and .Arizona. 



Thc officers are: Secundo Guasti, Jr.. president; Elliott M. 

 House, vice-president, and Nicola Giulli and William Dobson, 

 treasurer and secretary, respectively. 



In addition to F. A. Seiberling, president of The Goodyear 

 Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, three other directors of 

 the company are in Los .Angeles studying thc new plant. They 

 are: George M. Stadelman, chief of sales; F. H. Adams and 

 H. B. Manton. The Goodyear "Flying Squadron" of HO ex- 

 perts is due in Los Angeles May IS to give thc big concern a 

 proper start. It will be headed by C. R. Langdon. C. C. 

 Slusser, manager of the personnel department, will come to 

 assume the factory management, while Herman Barron of the 

 .Akron organization will be California division superintendent. 



F. A. Seiberling, president of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber 

 Co., Akron, Ohio, recently spent a week in Los .Angeles. He 

 came especially to attend the convention called to urge the de- 

 velopment, with Federal aid, of the Colorado river water powei" 

 project. He also noted with much satisfaction thc work being 

 done on the company's mammoth tire plant here and was con- 

 fident that actual manufacture could be started in June. 



F. A. Osterloh, Jr., of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. of 

 California, Los Angeles, has just returnd from a month in 

 Phoenix, Arizona, where he was looking after thc Goodyear 

 interests in the cotton-growing belt. 



The Miller Rubber Co. of California, formerly located on 

 Pico street, has moved to its new home at 1233 South Hope 

 street, Los Angeles, where it is said to have one of the best- 

 equipped tire sales and storage establishments on the Pacific 

 coast. 



The J. B. Wood Tire Co., Hewitt tire and tube distributers 

 for southern California and .Arizona, is temporarily located at 

 464 East Third street, Los Angeles, pending the building of its 

 new quarters at Third street and Central avenue. 



Work on the forty-acre pbnt of the Goodyear Textile Mills 

 Co., adjoining the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s tire plant now 

 in course of erection at Ascot Park. Los .Angeles, is progressing 

 so well that the company expects lo operate it in July. The 

 textile factory will run 33,000 spindles in making about 150,000 

 yards of cotton fabric a week, all of which will be taken under 

 contract by the Goodyear tire concern. Thc latter has cove- 

 nanted with the textile company to operate a plant that will 

 turn out a minimum of 3,000 tires a day to supply the demand 

 west of the Rockies. 



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

 is manager, and which is thc sole distributer for the Pacific 

 Rubber Co. here, has moved into new quarters at 1037 South 

 Figueroa street. 



Nelson & Price, Inc., has been appointed Los Angeles distributer 

 of the products of the India Tire & Rubber Co., and will be as- 

 sisted by Bert Mooser. 



SAN FRANCISCO NOTES. 



Among the si)eakers at a dinner given by the Advertising 

 Club at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, recently were -A. H. 

 Kroh, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.; Barney Oldfield, Oldfield 

 Tire Co.; and C. F. U. Kelly, former president. Kelly-Spring- 

 field Tire Co. 



The recent big automobile show, thc finest ever held in San 

 Francisco, has resulted in greatly stimulating sales of tires and 

 accessories. Every exhibitor reports a quickened state of trade, 

 and all declare the sales prospects for 1920 very encouraging. 

 There were some 80 exhibits of tires, vulvanizcrs and acces- 

 sories. 



The Xational .Aeronantie Exposition was held in the Exposi- 

 tion .Auditorium, San Francisco, April 21-28. 1920. 



