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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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The Power Rubber Co., San Francisco, distributer of Racine 

 tires for northern California, and of which James E. Power is 

 the head, is erecting a new building. The company has just 

 opened a new salesroom in Fresno, and has branches in Oakland 

 and San Jose as well as a dealers" organization for other coast 

 cities. 



Thomas F. Minehan, who has been in business on Market 

 street, San Francisco, for fourteen years, has been appointed 

 distributer for products of the Lehigh Tire & Rubber Co. 



Complete success marked the first annual Pacific Coast Auto- 

 motive Equipment Exposition which was held in the Civic 

 Auditorium, San Francisco, and which closed on the 4th of 

 April after running a week. Over 5,000 dealers from all parts 

 of the West had exhibits of some sort, and the big eastern con- 

 cerns were also well represented. One of the striking features 

 vi^as a model tire repair and vulcanizing shop in charge of 

 George Parker, who, with assistants, gave lessons day and night 

 in tire repairing. 



The West Coast Rubber Co., San Francisco, of which Charles 

 \\'ilIiamson is sales manager, has taken the agency for west of 

 the Rockies for the Bonner inner tubes made by the Story Rub- 

 ber Corporation, of New York City. 



A branch of the Braender Rubber & Tire Company, Ruther- 

 ford, New Jersey, has been opened at 131-133 Eighth street, 

 San Francisco. 



NORTHWESTERN NOTES. 



Automobile tire dealers in the Pacific Northwest are taking a 

 lively interest in the plans for the great motor caravan wherein 

 delegates from the advertising clubs of that section will move 

 to the place of tlieir annual convention in Stockton, California, 

 on the 23d of May. It is expected that 500 will be in the party, 

 which, it is said, will be the largest that has ever toured over 

 the highways of the Pacific Coast states. L. J. Sparks, manager 

 of the Portland, Oregon, branch of the Firestone Tire & Rubber 

 Co., will have charge of the entries in the "ship-by-truck" class. 

 George Bellis, district manager of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber 

 Co., also of Portland, is general chairman of the program of 

 "stunts" to be put on at various places. The caravan will start 

 May 17 at Vancouver, British Columbia. 



The Washington Tire & Rubber Co., Spokane, Washington, 

 which started business in May, 1919, reports gross production to 

 December 31 as $243,806, representing an average of 51 casings 

 and 59 tubes a day. Production is now running at close to 150 

 casings and 200 tubes daily, it is said ; and a business of $1,200,- 

 000 is expected this year. On March 3, the following officers 

 and trustees were elected: John B. White, president; J. L. 

 Bowling, vice-president; H. S. Burdick, secretary-treasurer; 

 trustees— R. B. Paterson, G. A. Laudenbach, J. W. Brett, and 

 Fred B. Grinnell. The sales and advertising department is under 

 the management of W. H. Heylman. 



Ray & Smith, of 70 Sixth street, Portland, Oregon, have been 

 appointed state agents for the Sterling Tire Corporation, 

 Rutherford, New Jersey. 



The United States Rubber Co.'s new location in Portland, 

 Oregon, is at 111-115 North Sixth street, where its building 100 

 by 125 feet gives it approximately 75,000 square feet of floor 

 space, of which 5,000 square feet are used for offices, sample and 

 shipping rooms, service department, and mechanical stock. The 

 upper floors are used as stock and storage rooms for tires, tire 

 sundries, footwear, clothing, and druggists' sundries. 



E. H. Cummings and P. J. Carson have opened a tire store at 

 Broadway and Flanders street, Portland, and will handle Fire- 

 stone products. 



W. L. Powell, Broadway and Glisan street, Portland, has taken 

 the Mulnomah County agency for Hood tires. 



The Portland Rubber Mills, Portland, Oregon, were incor- 

 porated in the autumn of 1912 with a capital of $25,000, by 

 J. Spencer Smith, H. C. Huntington and G. C. Frisbie, the capi- 

 tal being increased to $40,000 four years later. The factory is 

 of concrete, 200 by 75 feet and cost $100,000. The company 

 manufactures mechanical goods, chiefly valves, gaskets, bumpers, 

 sheet packing, and special molded goods. It specializes in heels 



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and soles, having a capacity of 10,000 pairs of heels per day, 

 with a very large output of soles and taps. This part of the 

 business is confined to the Western States. The company is 

 also the northwestern representative of the Manhattan Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co., Passaic, New Jersey, and also does an 

 extensive jobbing business with the saw mill trade. H. C. 

 Huntington has been president and general manager of the 

 company from the start. 



F. L. Hawley has been made sales manager for the Pacific Tire 

 & Rubber Co., Portland distributer of Blackstone fabric and 

 Canton cord tires. R. Jansberg and C. H. Kepler have joined 



the sales force. 



CANADIAN NOTES. 



R. Jeffers has been/ appointed vice-president and manager of 

 the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company of Canada, Limited, Ham- 

 ilton, Ontario. 



The Bergougnan Rubber Corporation, Trenton, New Jersey, 

 U. S. A., some months ago opened a branch at 496 Yonge street, 

 Toronto. Ontario, in charge of William A. Shaw as manager 

 for the Province of Ontario. 



The Rubberset Company, Newark, New Jersey, U. S. A., which 

 established a manufacturing plant in Toronto, Ontario, about 

 four years ago, to supply the Canadian trade demand for "Rub- 

 berset" brushes, has acquired a wood-working factory at Graven- 

 hurst. Ontario, to meet its requirements in the way of handles 

 for various kinds of brushes. Suitable machinery will be in- 

 stalled and about fifty people will be employed. Any surplus 

 production will be used in the Newark factory. The company's 

 Canadian branch now employs about 100 people and has estab- 

 lished general distribution of its product throughout Canada. 



The Lion Tire & Rubber Co., 502 Kent Building, Toronto, 

 Ontario, has been recently incorporated under the laws of that 

 province to manufacture cord tires and other rubber products. A 

 factory site of more than five acres has been purchased in New 

 Toronto, about five miles west of Toronto, where the first fac- 

 tory unit will be built at an estimated cost of $500,000. It is 

 expected that manufacturing will begin about March, 1921. The 

 company is capitalized at $2,500,000 common stock, par value $10 

 per share. It has also been granted a bond issue of $750,000, but 

 does not plan to avail itself of this at present. 



William Fifield has recently taken charge of the autoriiJaile 

 inner lube production of Ames Holden McCready Co., MomVtal, 

 Quebec. 



