THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1920. 



It lies ahoiit 500 feet from Springfield lake, overlooking the 

 lake and the valley. All conveniences, such as electricity, sewer, 

 pavements and sidewalks, will be provided. Plans call for the 

 formation of a community' waterworks. .A business center has 

 been laid out and buses will operate from the community every 

 30 minutes. 



In working out the General Hills plan, enabling the men to 

 finance the enterprise, a double purpose has been accomplished, 

 because while overcoming the financial handicap in home building, 

 the men at the same time have been given something to take the 

 place of unwise investments in the numerous wildcat stocks and 

 other promotions which have been sweeping the country and 

 which have contributed to the unrest of good workmen. 



A DESIGNER OF RUBBER MACHINERY. 



/^URT KuENTZEL, experimental engineer with The B. F. Goodrich 



^ Co., .'\kron, Ohio, was born in Erfurt, Germany, in 1880. 



After studying at the Technical High School in Charlottenburg 



and the universities of Jena and 



Berlin, he graduated in 1903. 



His first position was with Sie- 

 mens & Halske Gummiwerke in 

 Berlin, and he was later with the 

 Gummiwerke Oberspree of the Gen- 

 eral Electric Co., in Berlin, Gummi 

 & Kabelwerke, Dr. Cassirer & Co., 

 in Charlottenburg, and Siiddeutsche 

 Guminiwerke, in Mannheim. 



In 1909 he came to America as 

 ■'issistant superintendent in the in- 

 sulated wire department of the Dia- 

 mond Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. 

 His training and inclination tended 

 toward development work rather 

 than management, and since that 

 Ci RT KuEXTZEL time he has held the positions of ex- 



perimental engineer with the Good- 

 year Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, and the Republic Rubber 

 Co., Youngstown, Ohio, and is at present engaged in that capac- 

 ity with The B. F. Goodrich Co. 



In 1917 he planned and installed the Neumaticos Nacional, a 

 rubber factory in Barcelona, Spain, of which he is now temporary 

 manager. After a stay of a few months this year he will return 

 to The B F. Goodrich Co. 



The patent records furnish eloquent testiinony to Mr. Kuent- 

 zel's initiative and activity. He is the inventor of numerous rub- 

 ber manufacturing machines, devices and processes, especially in 

 the tire building branch of the industry. 



THE RUBBER TRADE ON THE PACIFIC COAST. 



By Our Regular Corrcs!<ondcnt. 

 LOS ANGELES NOTES. 



THE S.\MSON Tire & Rubber Co., 333 Pico street, Los Angeles, 

 has just shipped a cargo of tires and tubes to San Salvador, 

 Peru, and New Zealand, and is planning a considerable e,xten- 

 sion of its export trade. 



The Pacific Rubber Co., coast distributer of Horseshoe tires, 

 has moved into its new general offices at 415 East 8th street, 

 Los Angeles, a commodious, two-story, up-to-date building. Ac- 

 cording to .Roy R. Meads, president and general manager of the 

 company, the San Francisco branch has within a few months 

 increased its sales several hundred per cent. 



The "Wingfoot Clan" is the title of a bright, new weekly 

 shop paper which made its debut at the Los -Angeles Goodyear 

 plant in July. It is in charge of F. H. Fuller, manager of the 

 personnel department of the Los Angeles factory. 



The Keaton Tire & Rubber Co., maker of the Keaton non-skid 

 tire, has established a branch salcsofficc in a new two-story 

 building of its own at 1337-1339 South Flower street, Los 

 Angeles. Alan T. Tarbell is in charge. 



The first tires or tubes to be shipped east from Los .-Xngeles 

 have been sent out by the George W. Eno Rubber Co., of 1026 

 South Los .'\ngeles street, Los Angeles, which recently forwarded 

 3,600 inner tires, as the endless liners made by the company 

 are called, to Milwaukee. The same concern is preparing to 

 ship a carload of the liners to New York at an early date, and 

 will begin the manufacture of tubes in August. 



M. C. Hale, president of the United States Compression Inner 

 Tube Co., Tulsa, Oklahoma, announced on July 9 that his com- 

 pany had finally decided to establish its West Coast factory in 

 Bnrbank, a suburb of Los Angeles, California, and had bought 

 a site of 12J^ acres there. Work on the factory will be started 

 at an early date. A pneumatic tube, said to be practically punc- 

 tureless, is the company's chief product. At the company's main 

 plant in Oklahoma 2,000 tubes and 200 tires are turned out daily. 

 C. R. Privett has charge of sales. The company's Los .Angeles 

 office is at 411 Citizens' Bank Building, and it also maintains a 

 sales branch in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 



R. M. Merriman will be technical superintendent of the new 

 factory of the Fabri-Cord Tire Co. about to be erected at San 

 Pedro. Mr. Merriman held a similar position with The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co. for twelve years. At present he is in Akron, Ohio., 

 buying machinery, etc., for the new plant. He holds many 

 valuable patent rights on tires, tubes, and machinery. 



Of much interest to local rubber manufacturers who are 

 anxious to get materials cheaply and quickly from the East, 

 was the recent arrival at Los Angeles of the Artigas, the first 

 vessel to be sent here from Philadelphia, via the Panaina Canal, 

 by the North Atlantic & Western Steamship Co.. The voyage 

 was made in 18 days and 

 18 hours. Three other 

 vessels will soon be 

 placed in service. 



James H. Christian, 

 president of the Fabri- 

 Cord Tire Co., the latest 

 rubber manufacturing en- 

 terprise in Los Angeles, 

 California, was the first 

 president of the Perfec- 

 tion Tire & Rubber Co., 

 of Fort Madison, Iowa ; 

 and patented the well- 

 known asbestos breaker 

 strip. Having disposed 

 of his interests, he took 

 up cotton growing in 

 Arizona, later formed 

 the San Gabriel Reser- 

 voir Co. in Southern 

 California, and finally 

 the Fabri-Cord Co. Mr. 

 Christian was born in 

 1866 at Mt. Carroll, Illi- 

 nois, and has been in the 

 real estate and building 

 business in Detroit and 

 Chicago. 



J.^MES H. C 



The Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., the Goodyear iire o: rtuuoer 

 Co., the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., The B. F. Goodrich Rub- 

 ber Co., and the United States Rubber Co. helped to finance a 



