September 1, 1920.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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of molded and cut rubber goods, tubing, etc. The mill has been 

 in operation about three weeks. The leather belting department 

 of this company will also be under the same roof, thus placing 

 the whole business under centralized supervision. 



The Schmelzer Arms Co., Kansas City, Missouri, manufacturer 

 of sporting goods, has moved into its new wholesale building at 

 2015-2019 Grand avenue, the retail location remaining changed. 

 The company has also changed its name to "The Schmelzer 

 Company," but the organization and personnel will continue as 

 before. 



Morton L. Paterscm, one of the directors of the Converse Rub- 

 ber Shoe Co., Maiden, Massachusetts, and manager of the com- 

 pany's Chicago sales branch, returned on August 24 from a six 

 weeks' vacation in Scotland. 



The Steam Bag Corporation. 1545 Broadway, Denver, Colo- 

 rado, has been incorporated in that slate, with a factory at 1222 

 Elati street, Denver, to manufacture the "20th Century Steam 

 Curing Bag" for vulcanizing tires. The company holds patents 

 on the device covering the United States, Canada, Great Britain, 

 France, and Germany. 



B. L. DeVoe has been appointed Chicago branch manager of 

 the Madison Tire & Rubber Co., New York City, with head- 

 quarters at 1606 South Michigan avenue. 



The Hunter Dry Kiln Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, has just 

 completed a plant addition of brick and steel construction, ap- 

 proximately 105 by 85 feet, especially designed for the manu- 

 facture of its latest improved drj-er. This device is made en- 

 tirely of metal with the exception of its insulation, and because 

 of its simplicity of construction and operation is in demand for 

 export as well as for domestic trade. The company is also 

 adding to its facilities for manufacturing the metal racks and 

 trays which are used with this dryer. 



The Strongcord Tire & Rubber Manufacturing Co., Evansville, 

 Indiana, has increased its capital stock from $250,000 to $1,250,000. 

 R. G. Schultheis is secretary, and the offices and sales rooms are 

 at 413-414 Mercantile Bank Building". 



The Federal Rubber Co. of Illinois, Cudahy, Wisconsin, which 

 had planned a $1,000,000 factory addition, to be six stories and 

 basement, has postponed building until next year, on account of 

 present conditions and the difficulty in getting delivery of steel 

 before winter. It is expected that building operations will begin 

 in the early spring, contingent on conditions at that time. 



The plant of the Kansas City Tire & Rubber Corporation, Kan- 

 sas City, Kansas, placed in the hands of receivers on May 24, 

 1919, has been leased to the A. J. Stephens Rubber Co. of the 

 same city, which has also purchased all the liquid assets of the 

 company. The plant is being operated on full time, manufac- 

 turing tires and inner tubes, and the Stephens company plans soon 

 to add two night shifts in order to run 24 hours daily. The com- 

 pany also manufactures accessories and fabric products, some of 

 which have been described in recent issues of The Indi.\ Rubber 

 World. 



G. E. Bovis has been transferred to Chicago to represent The 

 McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., Qeveland and East Palestine, Ohio, 

 succeeding H. G. Couturier, transferred. 



Resolutions against the compulsory adoption of the metric 

 system were passed by the Society of Automotive Engineers at 

 the recent business session held at Ottawa Beach, Michigan. 



The Century Rubber Works, Chicago, Illinois, which some 

 time ago effected the sale of its plant to the Zeglen Tire & 

 Rubber Co., Inc., 118 North La Salle street, in the same city, 

 for the purpose of manufacturing tires, has built a larger plant 

 for its own use, into which it expects to move at an early 



THE RUBBER TRADE ON THE PACIFIC COAST. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



ALTHOUGH STILL H.\NDiCAPPEn with a shortage of skilled labor 

 and slow deliveries of needed machinery and supplies from 

 the East and Mid-West, the rubber manufacturers on the Pacific 

 Coast are making good progress in overtaking unfilled orders. 

 All report general business conditions good and are cheerful 

 about the outlook for the remainder of 1920. EiTorts arc being 

 made continually to facilitate direct shipments of plantation 

 rubber, and there is some talk of forming a manufacturers' 

 purchasing agency to take over the business hitherto done 

 largely by import brokers. Something may develop along this 

 line in the near future. 



Rubber mills which have been .^^upplying tread stock to tire 

 repair men on the coast were much relieved by the easing up 

 of the gasoline shortage. During the two months of "gas" 

 scarcity the bottom fairly fell out of the tread stock trade, as 

 automobile owners, being unable to use their machines, deferred 

 repair work until they could get more use of their cars. 



The Western Rubber & Supply Co., 1011 South Olive street, 

 Los Angeles, has been appointed southern California and Arizona 

 distributor of Gillette chilled-rubber tires and tubes. 



Many southwestern dealers in solid rubber tires intend to have 

 exhibits at the tractor show (said to be the only one to be 

 held in the United Slates this year) September 20-26 at Glendale, 

 a suburb of Los .Angeles. 



In accordance with its new country-wide policy, the Miller 

 Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, through its subsidiary, the Miller 

 Rubber Co. of California, has taken over the direct distribution 

 of Miller tires throughout southern California. J. O. Ward 

 is branch manager. 



Distribution of the products of the Columbia Tire & Rubber 

 Co., Columbianna, Ohio, will be made in California and Arizona 

 by the Lichtenberger-Ferguson Co.. of Los Angeles, and San 

 Francisco, a leather firm which took up rubber goods a few 

 years ago. 



LOS ANGELES NOTES. 



The Oarlock Packing Co.. Palmyra, New York., has opened a 

 branch office in the Higgins Building, N. Main and Second street, 

 Los Angeles, in charge of Frederick A. Griffith, son of the vice- 

 president of the Garlock Co. An extensive stock of rubber and 

 asbestos specialties will be carried at the new southwestern dis- 

 tributing station. 



The Auto Tire Manufacturers and Jobbers Association has 

 been recentiv formed by tire men for the purpose of correcting 

 the abuses prevalent in the tire trade of Los Angeles. Frank 

 T. Price is president and Alfred E. Adams, secretary. The 

 other officers and directors are: J. R. Campbell, Roy R. Meads, 

 Frank Osier. W. A. Rix, Adolf Schleicher, A. T. St'raney, L. S. 

 Utter, and J. B. Wood The offices are at 903-904 Broadway 

 Central Building. 424 South Broadway, Los Angeles. 



A. Roy Kjiabenshue, of Los Angeles. California, has obtained 

 the exclusive agency for Lehigh tires and tubes in southern Cali- 

 fornia. 



A native of Ohio, where he was born in 1876, Mr. Knabenshue 

 has had a varied business career in the East, West and Middle 

 West as a telephone engineer, designer of automobile accessories, 

 balloonist, pilot and builder of dirigibles and manufacturer of in- 

 ner lube.s. In 1916 he obtained an order from the Air Service for 

 a special spherical balloon and twenty-five observation balloons. 

 He then organized the Knabenshue Manufacturing Co. and leased 

 a factory at Northport, Long Island, where this government con- 

 tract was completed. In 1919 he purchased the factory and 

 equipped it for making Knabe inner tubes, which business he sold 

 out in February in order to return tc California. 



