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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



IJuNt 1, 1920. 



stri\ 



to correct abuses in ll 

 and 

 reasonable way 



trade, establish selling 



standards, and promote the interests of its members in every 



Ernest E. Gagiion, of the Seal-It Company of New York, has 

 been perfecting plans here for a factory to make the company's 

 puncture cure compound. The Los Angeles factory will be i1k 

 company's third, it already having two in the East. 



The Fordtire & Rubber Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is planning tn 

 build a factory in Los Angeles. The company specializes on .i 

 puncture-proof process for tires, now licensed to repair men 

 E. A. Boyle, 517 East Ninth street, is California state man- 

 ager. 



The Los Angeles Pacific Navigation Line, a new company, 

 announces that it will put on a line of vessels, running directly 

 between Los Angeles and Singapore and the Far East. One 

 main object is to supply the rubber factories which are being 

 built in and near Los Angeles. It has established branch offices 

 at Manila, Kobe, Hongkong and Shanghai, also. 



George T. Bell, head of the Bell Rubber Co., started in the 

 tire business in his native city, St. Louis, ten years ago, and 

 moved a few years later to Akron, Ohio, where his plant now 

 covers a city block and its output is over 100 sohd tires a day. 

 He is also head of the Tire Construction Co., West Pico and 

 Olive streets, Los Angeles, with fine tire salesrooms, and is 

 reputed to do the largest tire repair business on the Coast, em- 

 ploying forty vulcanizers. 



One of the first men in the trade to develop rubber specialities 



on a large and varied scale for the motion picture industry in 



the Southwest is Douglas R. Radford, president of the West 



American Rubber Company, Los 



^^^^ .\ngeles. 



^^^^^hu Born in London, England. 



^^^BPPJH 1883, he studied engineering an<l 



^^^m^ qualified at the age of twenty fm 



^^^B^ma t'''^ position of assistant engineer m 



^^^^^B^ a tea plantation in Burma, India, 



^^^^^^ f but just as he was about to leave 



^^^^^HSr for the Far East the company 



^^^^^H£'' changed its plans and left him 



^^^^^^C ^ without an engagement. He then 



^l^^^^^^^k decided to go West and take ni> 



^II^^^^^^L ranching in California, but after a 



^1^^^^^^ few months there he was called 



'^Rj^^^^^ home on account of family illness 



^^1^^^ and spent another year in London. 



_^ ^^^™ I The lure of the West, however, was 



Douglas R. Radford. too strong for him to resist, and he 

 returned to Los Angeles in 1907. 

 After working for three years at "everything from Secret 

 Service to bridge-building," he accepted the task of putting the 

 West American Rubber Company on its feet. In this work he 

 has been ably aided by the secretary, C. R. Prentiss, also an 

 engineer, and the concern has made gratifying progress. Re- 

 cently the company strengthened its working force, installed 

 more machinery, and is making plans for a large addition to 

 the plant. 



The company has been making rubber supplies for oil wells 

 and various patented novelties, but is also branching out into 

 other lines. 



The rush of big rubber men to secure cotton acreage and cotton 

 itself is over until next fall. All of the large tire interests have 

 been in evidence here this year. The Seiverhngs, the Fisk 

 company, the United States Rubber Co., the Firestone company, 

 The Miller Rubber Co., and others have been and gone and the 

 long staple crop is presumably buttoned up. 



J. B. Magee, manager of the United States Rubber Com- 

 pany's branches in southern California and Arizona, is ac- 

 counted one of the most energetic trade developers in the 

 Southwest. He made his debut in the 

 rubber business eight years ago, when 

 he became a statistical clerk in the 

 office of the United States Rubber 

 Company in San Francisco. His execu- 

 tive ability was soon recognized and 

 he was repeatedly promoted, and finally 

 put in charge of the Phoenix branch. 

 < )n January 1, 1916, he was appointed 

 t(j his present position, and at once 

 began to organize an efficient sales 

 force. That he made capable selections 

 and infused into his lieutenants much 

 of his own enthusiasm and fidelity is 

 ampl}' attested by tlie steady and considerable growth of the 

 company's business in the territory allotted to him. To his 

 aides Mr. Magee generously gives the major share of the 

 credit for his success. His main office is at 923 South Los 

 .'\ngeles street, Los Angeles, and the line includes everything 

 manufactured by the big concern he represents, 



F. F. Schaffer, president of Goodyear's India Rubber Glove 

 Manufacturing Co., and Arthur Reeve, assistant general manager, 

 footwear division of the United States Rubber Co., have just 

 visited the Pacific Coast, including Los Angeles, San Diego, and 



Magke. 



San Fr 



3, as well as the Grand Canon, 



GOODYEAK'S CALIFORNIA PLANT NEARING COMPLETION, 



This illustration is from a photograph, taken from an air- 

 plane, of the buildings and grounds of the Goodyear Tire & 

 Rubber Company of California, at .Ascot Park, Los .Angeles, as 



.Aeuoview of C 



AR Plant, Los Angeles, California. 



they are now. a year after ground was broken. A bit of Los 

 Angeles shows in the background. The picture may be com- 

 pared with that of the projected plant in The India Rubber 

 World, August 1, 1919. 



SAN FRANCISCO NOTES. 



At the World Metric Standardization Conference at the Palace 

 Hotel the delegates to the Seventh National Foreign Trade Con- 

 vention, just before departing, heard with much interest an ad- 

 dress by Burgess Darrow, of the technical division of The Good- 

 year Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron, Ohio, on the reasons why 

 his company has decided to adopt the metric measurements ex- 

 clusively in not only marking sizes on tires, but also in calcula- 

 tion, construction, and in operation throughout the parent plant 

 and the new branch concern being started in Los Angeles. 



Tire makers have been invited to enter tests of non-skid prod- 

 ucts at the annual convention of the National Traffic Officers' 

 Convenlion to be held here in August. A committee of members 

 of the Advertising Clubs of America will act as judges with 

 traffic officers from many cities in the Union. The streets in 

 front of the Auditorium, where the convention will be held, will 

 be made as wet as possible and the cars competing must be able 



