1920. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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system. This arrangement is expected to increase the efficiency 

 nt tire manufacturing. There is a system of conduits or sub- 

 ways to carry water pipes, steam pipes and electric wires to all 

 parts of the factory. 



Exceedingly rapid construction is being attained, the first 

 ground having been broken March 16; the first concrete poured 

 .April 7 ; the first steel erected April 26 and the roofing com- 

 menced about August 1. 



An estimated capacity of 12,500 tires daily is being provided 

 for. Cord pneumatics, including giant i)neumatic truck tires and 

 tubes, and also solid truck tires, will be made in all sizes, includ- 

 ing Ford and motorcycle sizes. Present plans do not include 

 the manufacture of fabric tires. Production will start very early 

 ii, 1921. 



A textile mill at Utica, New York, has been purchased where 

 cord fabric for the new tire plant will be produced. In the near 

 future a factory will probably be constructed as part of the 

 Buffalo plant for the manufacture of Dunlop "Vac" golf balls. 



Previous references in The Ixdi.v Rubber World to the new 

 Dimlop plant have been made under the name Dunlop America 

 Limited, which was incorporated in Xcw York State December 

 5. 1919. 



KENYON'S EASTERN SALES MANAGER. 



FRIENDS of Franklin G. Hill, who ha> takm ever the eastern 

 sales management for the C. Kcnyon Co. Inc.. Brooklyn, 

 New York, say that he is big; enough lor the job, and perhaps 

 ;he biggest man in the tire trade. 

 .\s he stands six feet three inches 

 and tips the scale at 255 pounds, 

 none will dispute it. Quite apart 

 from these facts, hovv'ever, his ex- 

 perience has been such as to 

 render him a big man in the liri 

 trade in quite a different sense 



A native of Bradford Count). 

 Pennsylvania, where he was edu- 

 cated in the public schools, com- 

 mercial college and normal school, 

 graduating in 1902, he began his 

 career in the rubber industry with 

 the Diamond Rubber Co. in 1905 

 The following year he went to the 

 Continental Caoutchouc & Gutta 

 Percha Co., of Hanover, Germany, y^ ^ 



and in 1907 took over the eastern 



distribution of Republic tires and tulies. lieconiing vice-president 

 of the Republic Rubber Co. of Xew York and also of the Petler 

 Shock Absorber Co. 



Mr. Hill resides at Freeport. Long Island. an<l has been active 

 in politics for several years in Xassau County. He is an Elk 

 and a Mason. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



F. C. Ryan, with the New York City office of the New Jersey 

 Zinc Co.. Inc., sailed on August 11 aboard the Grace liner Santa 

 Alia for Valparaiso and other South American west coast ports. 



C. E. Little has been appointed New York representative of the 

 Tru-matic Tire & Tube Co., a Delaware corporation, with office 

 at 106 Duane street, New York City. 



A. F. Bcarslag has been appointed New York representative for 

 the Netherlands Corporation for Oversea Trade, Holland, cap- 

 italized at $5,000,000, with office at 220 Broadway. New Y'ork City. 



Ernest Schulthess, a mechanical goods salesman well known in 

 New York City, is a director in the United Tire & Export Co., 

 26 Cortlandt street, New York. 



\V. A. Brady has been promoted to the management of the New 

 York branch of The McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., succeeding 

 \V. H. Hurley, promoted to assistant sales manager in Cleveland, 



Ohio. 



Lloyd Appleton, for 13 years secretary of F. H. Appleton & 

 Son, Inc., Boston, manufacturer of reclaimed rubber, and in 

 charge of the company's New Y'ork office, recently resigned to 

 devote himself to other interests. Mr. Appleton is very well 

 known in the industry and many friends will miss his genial 

 personality. 



C. B. McKay, who looks after the crude rubber requirements 

 of The Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, will 

 leave Singapore for home about September 1. 



Robert F. Whitehead has been appointed by President Wilson 

 to the position of Commissioner of Patents of the United States, 

 succeeding James T. Newton, who recently resigned. Melvin 

 H. Coulston has been appointed First Assistant Commissioner of 

 Patents. Both men have been on the staff of the Patent Office 

 for more than eighteen years. 



In Chicago recently, at a meeting of the Chemists' Club, George 

 Slocum, who has been connected with the United States Rubber 

 Co.'s plantations in Java and Sumatra for the last five years, 

 gave an address on "Java and Its Rubber Plantations." 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN THE EAST AND SOUTH. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



NEW YORK NOTES. 



THE Braender Rubber & Tire Co., Rutherford, New Jersey, has 

 removed its export office from 32 Broadway to 132 Nassau 

 street, New Y'ork City. 



The Prospect Tire & Rubber Co., Buffalo, New York, has in- 

 creased its capital from $500,000 to $1,000,000. 



The Holly- Wood Chemical Co., 101 Beekman street. New York 

 City, has just been established to deal in rubber makers' chem- 

 icals, pigments, and colors. These include sulphur, zinc oxide, 

 talc, whiting, dry- colors, antittiony, etc. A. P. Gottfried, widely 

 known in chemical circles, and S. F. Demant are at the head of 

 the company that maintains branches in Baltimore, Philadelphia, 

 Buffalo and San Francisco. 



The shipping agency business established in New York City 

 for nearly 60 years by Booth & Co. and Booth & Co., Inc., will 

 hereafter be carried on under the name of Booth American Ship- 

 ping Corporation, with offices at the same address, 17 Battery 

 Place, and without change of management or personnel. The 

 company operates steamers between Amazon river ports and 

 New York. 



The LTnited States Rubber Co., New York City, has promoted 

 F. J. Nute, formerly salesman at Portland, Maine, to the position 

 of branch manager in the same city. 



The business of the Fay & Youngs Rubber Corporation, and 

 of Fay & Youngs, Inc., has been purchased by a newly incor- 

 porated company. Youngs Rubber Corporation, which will have 

 its main offices at 75-77 Spring street, New York City. The 

 officers are: Merle L. Youngs, president and treasurer; William 

 McKinney, vice-president ; and Jesse A. Cole, secretary. These 

 are also directors, besides Messrs. John E. Conklin, Samuel A. 

 Foote, A. R. Chisholm, and R. R. Carter. The company \yi\\ man- 

 ufacture atomizers and molded rubber goods for the wholesale 

 druggists' trade. 



The Multibestos Co., Walpole, Massachusetts, has established 

 a branch office at 105 West 63d street. New York City, with 

 Mr. Schacht as manager. 



The Philadelphia Rubber Works Co.. .\kron. Ohio, has pur- 

 chased a 100-acre tract of land adjoining the property of Dunlop 



