THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



681 



The severest test of solid truck tires ever made in this section 

 took place recently when a 73-ton, 40-inch naval gun was trans- 

 ported from the Southern Pacilic railroad freight yards at San 

 Pedro to Fort McArthur, adjoining Los Angeles harbor. The 

 huge gun was so placed that 23 tons rested on dollies and the 

 remaining 50 tons on a single trailer, which is believed to be 

 the greatest weight ever imposed on solid tires. Two 40 by 12 

 solids were used on the front wheels and four 40 by 10 solids 

 on the rear wheels of the trailer, all Goodrich tires. 



Rubber-tired auto vans have replaced the horse-drawn mail 

 carts in Los Angeles, the postoflice department havin;.; just 

 installed thirty-seven of the motor vehicles. There are nineteen 

 1-ton, thirteen f^-ton, three 2-ton, and two 2''i-ton vans now 

 in use. 



\V. D. Ncwerf, W. S. Melcher, and Carl Newerf have formed 

 the Tire Sales Company to market in Los Angeles the Western 

 States tires made by the Washington Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Spokane, Washington. 



^\'hile no affirmation or denial has been made by the Miller 

 Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio., of the rumor current here for several 

 months that it intended to build a large plant in Los Angeles, 

 the impression persists that the company is maturing plans to 

 that end. F. C. Millhofif, general sales manager, and \\'. S. 

 Campbell, advertising manager, of the ]Miller company, have 

 been spending much time lately in this section. 



The L". S. Compression Inner Tube Co., Inc., Tulsa, Okla- 

 homa, in addition to its new plant acquired in Pennsylvania, 

 will build another this winter on a site to be purchased imme- 

 diately in Los Angeles. From this it will serve its customers 

 in the territory west of the Rockies, and from Tulsa, those be- 

 tween the Rockies and the Mississippi. 



It is estimated that the annual bill for tires for the 1,500 motor 

 stages operated daily over the fine highways of California is not 



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less than 51,200,000. The average run for each is ISO miles a 

 day, and a mileage of 12,000 is figured for each of the five tires 

 carried. 



Roy R. Meads, president and general manager of the Pacific 

 Rubber Co., has returned to Los Angeles from a visit to the 

 Horseshoe tire factory in Racine, Wisconsin, and a visit to the 

 various distributing agencies of the company on the Pacific 

 coast. 



W. J. Coe, of the United States Rubber Company's I-os .•Xngeles 

 branch, attended the amiual convention of the California Retail 



Shoedealers' Association which opened at San Diego on June 7. 

 Bert Mooser, who is the Pacific Coast representative of the 

 India Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio., has gone East to hurry 

 up tire shipments. Local distributers have been seriously 

 hampered by depleted stocks. 



J. Ralph Campbell, long with The Fisk Rubber Co., has been 

 appointed manager of Guasii, House & GiuUi, Inc., Los Angeles, 

 southwestern distributer of Perfection tires. Mr. Campbell re- 

 cently visited the Perfection plant at Fort Madison, Iowa. 



J. A. Peterson has succeeded J. R. Campbell as manager of the 

 Los -Angeles branch of The Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, 

 Massachusetts. For a little more than three years he has been 

 manager of the company's branch at Sacramento where J. A. 

 Jack, a salesman for the last three )-ears, has been appointed 

 manager. 



Tire users have been greatly interested in an animated cartoon 

 recently shown here that depicted a supposed strike of abused 

 lires against unreasonable use by their owners. The film was 

 entitled, "The Striking Tire" and was supplied by The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio., as part of the nation-wide cam- 

 paign against the neglect and misuse of tires. 



J. B. Magee, general manager of the United States Rubber 

 Company's southern California and Arizona branches, has been 

 making a thorough study of trade conditions in the northern 

 part of California, first with J. B. Brady. Pacific Coast manager, 

 at San Francisco and afterward as far as Klamath Falls, Oregon, 

 with T. H. Wilkinson, manager for that section, and L. M. 

 Simpson, manager of the Sacramento branch. 



The George W. Eno Rubber Co., Los Angeles, has purchased 

 the mold for the Ehman half-sole tire from the Ehman Tire & 

 Rubber Co., and is just concluding experiments looking toward 

 applying this mold to a whole-sole tire which the Eno company 

 will soon turn out in quantity under its own name. 



Employes of the Los Angeles Goodyear tire plant 

 liave organized a 60-piece band under the leadership of 

 Frank Marsales, who also heads the Elks' band in Los 

 Angeles. The Goodyear employes have also organized 

 a baseball team, and thus far they have won 10 of the 

 2 games played. 



It has been claimed that half of the automobile tires 

 made in the United States are sold west of the Mis- 

 ■iissippi river. Asked by The Indi.^ Rubber World rep- 

 resentative whether such a statement was true, an offi- 

 cial ot one of the largest tire-making concerns in the 

 country stated that his company's sales in the fourteen 

 ^tateb nearest the Pacific Coast and all the Pacific ex- 

 ports total but 10 per cent of the company's entire busi- 



A PIONEER TIRE CO. 



\ prosperous young company is the Samson Tire & 

 Rubber Corporation, w^hose general offices are at 333 

 West Pico street, Los Angeles. Although launched 

 durmg the war, it has flourished remarkably. It has 

 a plant at Compton, a nearby city, and is running it 

 up to capacity. 

 The first unit of the new plant now under w^ay is a 

 ihree-story brick building of mill construction 50 by 200 feet. 

 Besides the batteries of machines, mixers and calenders, there 

 will be big press-vulcanizers and the latest machines and devices 

 for tire work. The plant will be on a main line of railroad 

 and have its own siding. There is plenty of water, cheap elec- 

 tric power, and a fine class of help always available. 



The officers are especially proud of the fact that the plant 

 is free and clear, that the company has no bonds or preferred 

 stock, and that it discounts all purchases. 



