June 1, 1920.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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to stop quickly according to rigorous ruk-s. A severe test will 

 also be made of brake linings. 



IVazar & Company, New York City, crude rubber importers 



4- and exporters, have opened an office in the First National Bank 



^ Building, San Francisco, to provide further facilities for Pacific 



Coast exports and imports. They already have an office in the 



New York Building, Seattle, Washington. 



The Pacific Mail Steamship line runs two steamers regularly 

 between San Francisco and Calcutta, via Singapore, and seven 

 steamers handed over by the United States Shipping Board are 

 conveying cargo between Shangai and Calcutta and acting as 

 feeders for the trans-Pacific lines. Two American companies, 

 the Robert Dollar and the Independent steamship companies, 

 which have maintained a freight service in the East for some 

 time, are adding to the shipping facilities between Singapore and 



(the United States. 

 The Coast Tire and Rubber Company, 408-409 Syndicate build- 

 ing, Oakland, California, has secured a six-acre site in that city, 

 where it will establish its new tire plant. The main building 

 will be 72 by 360 feet, and the other buildings will include steam 

 plant, machine shop and offices. The company was incorporated 

 August 29, 1919, and the officers are: Holmes Ives, president; 

 John I. Pankratz, vice-president; N. B. Campbell, treasurer, and 

 W. D. Forbes, secretary. In addition to the above, the directors 

 include Harold Giesse, Roy Thorpe, N. J. Whelan, A. L. Warm- 

 ington and Francis H. Woodward. E. Lawthorn, formerly fac- 

 , lory superintendent for the Federal Rubber Co., Cudahy, Wis- 



k consin, and for the Gillette Rubber Co., Eau Claire, Wisconsin. 



I is factory superintendent. 



H. W. McKevitt, head of the McKevitt Auto Supply Co., has 

 been appointed retail distributer of Lee tires in San Francisco. 



SAN DIEGO NOTES. 



H. S. Firestone, president of the Firestone Tire & Rubber 

 Co., with his sons, Leonard and Raymond, and Barney Oldfield, 

 were guests of friends in San Diego recently. Mr. Firestone 

 has been making an automobile tour of Imperial Valley, and has 

 been urging the farmers there to raise more long-staple cotton, 

 for which there is a great demand among tire manufacturers. 

 The Firestone concern is a heavy buyer of raw cotton and has 

 several gins in the valley. 



Credit for making the first pneumatic tire west of Chicago 

 is claimed by the Savage Tire Co., which produced a perfect 

 casing in 1912 at its factory in San Diego, and since that time 

 the business has grown extensively on the Pacific Coast. John 

 D. Spreckels, the sugar magnate, is said to hold controlling in- 

 terest in the concern, which, since the first of February, has 

 become known as The Spreckels "Savage" Tire Co., having pur- 

 chased the assets of the Savage Tire Co. and the Savage Tire 

 Corporation, both of San Diego. Plans are being made for a 

 large extension to the plant which will give it a 100 per cent 

 increase in production. The company will soon start to build a 

 steel and concrete storehouse with a capacity for 70,000 tires. 

 It will be seventy-five by six hundred and sixty feet with ten 

 doors at which to load and unload freight cars. A three-day 

 spring meeting of West and Southwest branch managers was 

 held last month at the plant. 



NORTHWESTERN NOTES. 



Fred S. Wilson, vice-president and Pacific Coast representa- 

 tive of the Thermoid Rubber Co., Trenton, New Jersey, has 

 been in Portland looking over trade conditions with the Allen 

 & Hebard Co., local distributer of Thermoid tires. 



The Oregon agency for Overman solid cushion tires in Port- 

 land has been taken by the Howell-Swift Tire Company, which 

 handles Canton cord and Blackstone tires in this section. 



E. B. Conlce, western representative of the Stanwood Rubber 

 Co., Elizabeth, New Jersey, has been busy during the past few 

 weeks establishing agencies for Stanwood tires in Spokane, Seat- 

 tle, Portland, San Francisco, Fresno and Los .'\ngeles. 



Clyde S. Thompson, advertising manager for the Portage Tire 

 & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, is studying trade conditions on the 

 Coast. 



A recent estimate puts the number of motor trucks in use in 

 the seven states west of the Rocky Mountains as 110,000, Cali- 

 fornia leading with 58,700. 



SOUTHWESTERN NOTES. 



A hangar for the dirigible balloon of the Goodyear Tire & 

 Rubber Co., known as the pony blimp, is being erected at Litch- 

 field, Arizona, where plantations of the Southwest Cotton Com- 

 pany, a subsidiary of the Goodyear concern, are located. The 

 blimp will be used by the Goodyear company in messenger ser- 

 vice between the cotton fields in Arizona and the new Goodyear 

 factory in Los Angeles, with an intermediate stop at Blythe, 

 California. It is 95 feet long, carries two persons, and is capable 

 of a speed of 40 miles an hour for ten hours. 



A new and larger supply station for the distribution of Miller 

 tires in San Diego and Imperial counties has been established 

 at Fourth and B streets, San Diego. F. C. Millhoff, general sales 

 manager of ihe Miller company, has been a recent visitor in 

 Southern California. 



The Imperial Valley Cotton Growers' .Association of Califor- 

 nia, which from 120,000 acres supplies cotton for tire fabrics, 

 has petitioned the Federal Government for the admission of 

 2,000 Mexican laborers to handle the 1920 crop, on account of 

 the great scarcity of American labor. At the end of the season 

 the aliens would be sent back over the border line. Imperial 

 Valley bankers will finance the plan. 



Wayne Murray and George S. Danaher, doing business as 

 Murray & Danaher, have become the agents for the Swinehart 

 tires in the Southwest, covering the states of Texas, Oklahoma, 

 New Mexico, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Both were in the gov- 

 ernment motor service during the war and have had long expe- 

 rience in the automobile business. Their office is at 506 Trust 

 building, Dallas, Texas. 



THE AD-MOR-MYLER INNER TUBE. 



This is a special inner sole tire which, it is claimed, overcomes 

 all the drawbacks of many such tire-saving devices now on the 

 market. This supplemental tire is designed to save inner tubes 

 from punctures, and can be transferred when the casing is worn 

 out to a new one. A double rubber bead is used to strengthen 

 the tire, take the strain ofT the rim edge, and, it is said, makes 

 rim blow-outs almost impossible. The edge is feathered to pre- 

 vent pinching in the casing. This inner sole tire is produced by 

 the Ad-Mor-Myler Rubber Company, a recently incorporated 

 Delaware corporation; capitalized for $1,000,000. Its president 

 and founder is A. Jacquins. Henry Josephs is sales manager. To 



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meet the growing demand the company will soon erect a six- 

 story factory, 150 by 160 feet, at Sixth and Alameda streets, 

 Los Angeles. 



