September 1, 1920] 



THE 3NDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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sales manager, succeeding H. M. Bacon, resigned. Mr. Puniphrey 

 was formerly assistant sales manager and has been with the com- 

 pany seven years. 



\V. H. Hurley, formerly manager of the New York branch of 

 the McGraw company, has been made assistant sales manager in 

 Cleveland. 



R. 1. Winterringer, formerly the McGraw company's Boston 

 representative, has been appointed in charge of the Cleveland ter- 

 ritory, succeeding G. E. Bovis, promoted. 



H. G. Couturier has been made sales promotion manager of the 

 McGraw company at Cleveland, having been transferred from 

 Chicago. This position is in a newly created department. 



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

 W. T. Irwin, formerly branch manager at Youngstown, Ohio, to 

 the position of branch manager at the Cleveland office. C. L. 

 Wood, formerly salesman at the Cleveland branch, is promoted 

 to be branch manager at Youngstown. 



The McElrath Tire & Rubber Co., Cleveland, Ohio, has ap- 

 pointed E. S. Curtis sales manager and W. D. Richards, factory 

 superintendent. The H. B. Bixler Co. has been retained as con- 

 sulting engineers. The company's new factory, 100 by 300 feet, 

 is well under way and will have 45.000 square feet of floor space. 

 Machinery equipment sufficient to make 1,000 cord truck tires 

 will be installed, as the company will specialize in machine-made 

 tires of this kind. The equipment has already been purchased. 

 The premises cover liyz acres of land in Ravenna, one of the 

 suburbs. 



The Advertising Managers Council of the Motor and Accessory 

 Manufacturers' Association, comprising the executives of the 

 principal companies interested in automotive equipment, will hold 

 a convention at Camp Nela, Nela Park, Cleveland, Ohio, on 

 Friday and Saturday, September 17-18, 1920. Tents will be erected 

 to accommodate the visitors and sports will be enjoyed. It is 

 expected that :he recent developments in the automotive industry 

 will make this meeting both interesting and important. E. C. 

 Tibbctts, advertising manager of The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, 

 Ohio, is chairman of the executive committee which is working 

 on the program for the meeting. 



MISCELLANEOUS OHIO NOTES. 



The Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Co., Dayton, Ohio, through 

 the disposition of $3,000,000 of preferred stock, is quadrupling its 

 present plant capacity. The additions are being built in accord- 

 ance with the original plan when the first unit was erected in 

 1917. The property covers 22 acres and the company has no 

 bonds or mortgages of any kind on it. "Dayton Airless" and 

 "Dayton Thorobred" cord and fabric tires are being manufac- 

 tured. J. A. MacMillan is president. 



The Lancaster Tire & Rubber Co., Columbus and Lancaster, 

 Ohio, has appointed Richard Gibson, Jr., technical superin- 

 tendent. He formerly held a similar position in the tire depart- 

 ment of the Hewitt Rubber Co., Buffalo, New York, and has 

 also been tire development engineer of the Republic Rubber Cor- 

 poration, Youngstown, Ohio, and assistant chemist of the Racine 

 Rubber Co., Racine, Wisconsin, and of the Kelly-Springfield Tire 

 Co.. Akron, Ohio. 



The Akron Maderite Tire & Rubber Co., Newton Falls, Ohio, 

 has changed its name to the Trumbull Tire & Rubber Co. 



The Republic Rubber Co., Youngstown, Ohio, was closed down 

 for six days in July, for the regular semi-annual inventory. The 

 pneumatic tire department was shut down until August 16, when it 

 resumed operations. All departments are now running. 



The Mason Tire & Rubber Co., Kent, Ohio, has created a 

 factory engineering department in charge of H. W. Sidnell. The 

 entire staff of the departiVient when fully organized will consist 

 of from eight to ten men. E. B. Harvey is manager of the plan- 

 ning division, W. W. Peffers of the raw material department, and 



\V. S. Agnst will have charge of the tire design department. As 

 a result of the transfer of Mr. Sidnell from the office, A. J. 

 Lauderbaugh has been promoted to the position of assistant sec- 

 retary and office manager. 



An eastern sales district, comprising all branches east of In- 

 dianapolis, has been created by The Mason Tire & Rubber Co, 

 Kent, Ohio, in charge of Earl W. McCreery, with headquarters 

 at the factory in Kent. Mr. McCreery was formerly assistant 

 sales manager of the Portage Rubber Co., Barberton, Ohio. 



E. K. McMillen has been appointed foreman of the milling de- 

 partment, in charge of mills and calenders of The Mason Tire 

 & Rubber Co., Kent, Ohio, succeeding H. L. Parsons. Mr. Mc- 

 Millen has been connected with the rubber business 17 years, and 

 was formerly with the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and The 

 B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron. He comes to the Mason company 

 from the New Castle Rubber Co., New Castle, Pennsylvania. 



E. H. Lybrook, for the last year in charge of the electrical 

 construction work of the United States Nitrate Plant, Toledo, 

 has been appointed chief electrician of The Mason Tire & Rubber 

 Co., Kent, Ohio, succeeding the late George J. Murray. Mr. 

 Lybrook has had ten years' experience in electrical work, and 

 is a graduate of Purdue University. 



The Allied Belting Co., Greenville, Ohio, has increased its 

 stock from $60,000 to $100,000, and will move its factory from 

 Toledo to Greenville, where it is now building a factory to cost 

 approximately $25,000. George C. Baker is vice-president, and 

 W. R. Graham is factory manager. 



THE MID-WEST RUBBER ASSOCIATION'S 

 GENERAL MANAGER. . 



HARRV Stephen \'orhis, who until July 1 of last year was sec- 

 retary and treasurer of The Rubber Association of America, 

 when he resigned and joined the Gutta Percha & Rubber Manu- 

 facturing Co., of 

 New York, and la- 

 ter was made gen- 

 eral manager and 

 secretary of the Mid- 

 West Rubber Man- 

 ufacturers' Associa- 

 tion, is well known 

 to nearly everybody 

 in the rubber trade 

 through his former 

 close connection 

 with the industry. 

 Mr. Vorhis bring? 

 to the Mid-Wesl 

 Rubber Manufactur- 

 ers' .Association a 

 broad experience 

 that peculiarly lits 

 him for the work. 

 Under his able man- 

 agement this young 

 association may be 

 expected to redouble 

 its already sturdy 

 stride, for it is 



growing rapidly. Since Mr. Vorhis assumed his duties in Feb- 

 ruary, fifty new members have been added, making a total of 

 132, and a "live wire" bulletin service has been inaugurated. At- 

 tendance at monthly meetings has increased from about thirty to 

 sixty members and a spirit of friendly cooperation and enthusiasm 

 is being manifested. Both Mr. Vorhis and the Association are 

 to be congratulated. 



