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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July 1, 1920. 



The Majestic Tire & Rubber Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, has 

 elected the following officers: R. H. Syfors, president; E. B. 

 Oscars, vice-president; and George O. W'ildhack, secretary- 

 treasurer. 



The Miller Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has opened a branch at 

 3 East Water street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where 30,000 feet of 

 floor space have been leased and a preliminary shipment of twelve 

 carloads of tires made. 



The Parker Tire & Rubber Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, has in- 

 creased its capital from $750,000 to $3,000,000. and is drawing 

 up plans for the erection of a new factory building 600 feet long, 

 100 feet wide, and two stories high. When completed and equipped, 

 it is estimated that the company will have a capacity of 2,000 

 tires daily. The company emphasizes white in every possible way 

 in connection with its business, its letterhead even having the 

 name embossed with a die instead of the usual printing. 



The Rubber Sales Co., S3 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 

 Illinois, has been recently organized for the purpose of marketing 

 various rubber products pertaining to the automobile industry in 

 Chicago and the Middle West. F. E. Kaeppel. formerly with the 

 Federal Rubber Co. and the Mechanical Rubber Co.. is president. 

 The company acts as direct mill agents. 



The Tong-em-on Vulcanizer Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota, has 

 changed its name to Risk's Riskless Vulcanizer Co., as also the 

 name of its product, which was described in The Indi.^ Rubber 

 World April 1, 1920, under the old name. 



The Wildman Rubber Co., 816 Book Building. Detroit. Michi- 

 gan, has purchased the controlling interest in ihe Biltwell Tire & 

 Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, as noted elsewhere in this issue. The 

 Wildman company will operate the Biltwell plant in addition to 

 the one it is to erect at Bay City, Michigan. 



The Morgan & Wright plant, Detroit, Michigan, is being en- 

 larged by the addition of a two-story building, 90 by 275 feet, 

 and a power plant. 



SALES MANAGER, SAVAGE TIRE SALES CO. 



ToHN Elden Sh.\w, sales manager of the Savage Tire Sales 

 J Co., Des Moines, Iowa, was born in Saylesville, Rhode, 

 Island, September 21, 1886. After completing his education 

 in a business college he 

 Ijccame a newspaper re- 

 porter, which is a val- 

 ualile training prepara- 

 tory to any sort of busi- 

 ness career. 



His first e.\perience 

 witli the rubber indus- 

 try commenced some 

 ten years ago with the 

 L. .\. Vulcanizing Co., 

 ni Los Angeles, Cali- 

 fornia. Early in 1914 

 he started with the 

 Savage Tire Co., of 

 San Diego, California, 

 as credit man in the 

 Los Angeles branch, 

 later being transferred 

 to the factory as credit 

 manager, then pro- 

 moted to traveling audi- 

 tor and soon to special 

 salesman. In Febru- 

 ary, 1918, he was ap- 

 pointed assistant sales manager, and eleven months later was 

 advanced to sales manager. In this position he greatly 



increased sales and changed the company's policy from a 

 consignment to a straight sales basis, and on Fcljruary 1, 

 1920, resigned to go into business for himself. 



Mr. Shaw has a wide acquaintance in social and fraternal 

 as well as business circles and is a member of the B. P. O. 

 Elks No. 168 of San Diego. 



THE RUBBER TRADE ON THE PACIFIC COAST. 



By Our Regular Corrcspoiidciil. 



LOS ANGELES NOTES. 



Los AiNGELES is the largest city west of St. Louis, according to 

 the United States census returns for 1920, which gives the 

 population of Los Angeles as 575,480, in contrast with that of San 

 Francisco, which has 508,410. 



Another large rubber plant is coming to Los Angeles. It is 

 the Fabri-Cord Tire Company of California, which has purchased 

 thirty acres adjoining the Vista del Oro tract on Seventh street 

 in the San Pedro harbor section of the city, and construction 

 will begin August 1 on a plant that will ultimately cost $2,000,000. 

 The first unit will be a three-story building of reinforced con- 

 crete. 60 by 250 feet, costing when equipped, $80,000 for the 

 building and $200,000 for the machinery. The initial output will 

 be 500 cord tires and 1,500 tubes a day, and 400 men will be 

 employed. Eventually the company plans to employ 1,700. 

 Electricity will be used wholly for power. 



The E. M. Smith Co., Los Angeles, manufacturer of Emsco 

 products consisting of rubber belting, brake linings, clutch facings 

 and other rubber-asbestos and textile products is a twelve-year- 

 old concern of which E. M. Smith is president and general man- 

 ager. The factory buildings now built and under way are of 



John E. Shaw. 



Calender Room, E. M. Smith Co. 



reinforced concrete and include a rubber mill, a textile mill, a 

 power plant, garage, machine shop, belting factory, warehouse 

 and offices. The plant is the only one west of Chicago making 

 clutch facings for automobiles. It uses more than 25,000 pounds 

 of canvas monthly and it is all bought in California. Emsco 

 products are being shipped to Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, 

 Wyoming, Oklahoma, Kansas, and other states as far east as 

 Philadelphia. 



Goodyear tires are being made in California. The first "native 

 son" tire to be made in the Golden State and bearing the "Wing- 

 foot" brand was turned out at the Los Angeles factory on June 

 14, 1920. As the casing was removed from the molds and pro- 

 nounced perfect, the whistles of five Goodyear factories, namely, 

 in Los Angeles, Akron, Ohio, Toronto, Canada, the cotton mills 

 at Goodyear, Connecticut, and the ginning mills on the GoodyeaT 

 cotton plantation in Arizona, in unison greeted the birth of the 

 tire. It is a model 30 by 3-inch, plain tread, single-cure fabric 

 tire of the clincher type and will be placed in the Goodyear Prod- 

 ucts Museum in Akron. 



