December i, 1907.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



71 



Tires at the Madison Square Garden Show. 



THE second New York automobile show this season was held 

 at Madison Square Garden on November 2-9, under 

 the direction of the Association of Licensed Automobile 

 Manufacturers. In other words, so far as automobiles were 

 concerned, the exhibitors were American makers licensed under 

 the Selden patent. The exhibits of tires and motor accessories 

 were, for the most part, the same as were displayed at the Grand 

 Central Palace show in the preceding week, and embraced a full 

 exhibit by The Motor and Accessories Manufacturers, Inc. 

 There was a larger display than usual of motor cycles, and a 

 good showing of commercial vehicles. 



The net result of the two automobile shows, in the generally 

 expressed view, if that the past year has shown a further ad- 

 vance in automobile construction in America, but space will not 

 be taken here for an analysis of the improvement made. The 

 accessories shown embraced many novelties for the increased 

 comfort or safety of the motorist. But it is to the tire features 

 that this report must be devoted mainly. 



The clincher type of pneumatic, of course, remains in the lead. 

 As to the tire section and the means for retaining tires in place 

 on the old type of clincher rim, such details have long ago — as 

 the tire trade goes — been standardized. Last year all the leading 

 firms exhibited clincher rims modified by rendering one of the 

 flanges detachable for the more easy removal of a tire. This 

 year the tendency is similarly general to supply rims which are 

 removable entire, the tire coming off with them. The motorist 

 who is equipped with a spare rim of the new type on which is 

 mounted an inflated tire, in case of any tire trouble on the road, 

 has only to remove the rim from the lame wheel and put on 

 the spare one — a simpler matter than dealing with any sort of 

 tire replacement before known. Pneumatic tires are stronger, 

 perhaps, than before, and the evident tendency is to equip cars 

 of a given weight with larger tires. The number of American 

 makers of pneumatic tires has increased during the year, not 

 counting the entrance into the field, as domestic manufacturers, 

 of the Michclin and Continental companies. Some new foreign 

 makes were shown. 



AMERICAN RUBBER TIRE MAKERS. 



Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co. (New York). — Wrapped tread pneu- 

 matics, which differ from the company's previously made molded 

 tires in having a cushion of Para rubber between the carcass and 

 the tread, and a breaker strip between the cushion and the tread 

 to prevent the separation of the tread from the carcass. In 

 curing a tire the carcass is first vulcanized and the tread which 

 varies in thickness accordmg to the size of the tire is put on 

 raw and hand wrapped, after which the old tire is cured by the 

 open steam process. 



Represe.vtatives. — Horace DeLisser, president. Branch managers; 

 Leon B. Smith, New York; J. B. Burwell, Chicago; Charles Hatch, De- 

 troit. R. S. Ireland and H. M. DeSilva, traveling salesmen. 



Consolidated Rubber Tire Co. (New York and Akron). — This 

 company showed for the first time regular type automobile 

 clincher pneumatic tires, which they describe as the "Kelly- 

 Springfield,'' the designation by which the solid tires made by 

 the same company have so long been known. 



Representatives. — Van H. Cartmell, president; F. A. Seaman, secretary; 

 S. S. Miller, factory superintendent. Branch managers; F. A. Kissell, 

 Philadelphia; Stanley F. Hall, Boston; F. E. Holcomb, Southern rep- 

 resentative; E. J. Todd, Connecticut representative. Salesmen: F. A. 

 Oatman and E. S. Roberts, New York. 



Continental Caoutchouc Co. (New York).— Pneumatics in 

 three styles — Continental round or wrapped tread, flat or racing 

 tread, and "rouge ferre" or anti skid, the latter being metal 

 studded. The flat treads have corrugated surfaces, and all the 



styles are furnished in American and metric sizes. A new de- 

 tachable or demountable rim was shown, held in place by bolts 

 passing through the felloe and having washers which grip the 

 rim. This system can be adapted to any type of tire. The idea 

 is that the motorist may carry a spare rim, having on it an in- 

 flated tire, and in case of puncture this can be substituted readily 

 for the rim and tire on the wheel which is the seat of the trouble. 

 The Continental company, whose tires hitherto have been made 

 ill Germany, have arranged to supply their American trade here- 

 after with tires made on this side of the Atlantic. 



Representatives. — J. M. Gilbert, general manager. J. H. Sheldon, 

 sales manager. Branch managers: James L. Gibncy, Philadelphia; Stanley 

 Brooks, Detroit; Mr. Hart, Buffalo; Mr. Thompson, Boston. B. J. Col- 

 lins and E. E. McMaster. Western travelers. E. S. Brewer, New Jersey 

 and New York state traveler. William A. Rutz, New England sales 

 manager. S. S. Poor, New York salesman. 



The Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio). ^"Wrapped tread" 

 pneumatics of several types: Regular clincher (one-piece rim), 

 in American and French or millimeter sizes ; quick detachable 

 clincher type, for the Marsh rim (also shown by the Diamond 

 company) or other special rims; and tires of the "meclianical'' 

 type, for the Dunlop and Fisk style of rims. All these were 

 shown in the flat tread, regular, "Bailey Won't Slip," and 

 Diamond non skid treads. The last mentioned is a new tread, 

 in which specially hardened rivets are inserted through rubber 

 and fabric under hydraulic pressure, and secured by washers. 

 The Marsh rim, by the way, has been modified somewhat, so 

 that it can now be manipulated without any other tool than a 

 small wrench. A new feature is the "Diamond Electric," a 

 clincher tire of special construction for light electric vehicles, 

 referred to as usually resilient, enabling cars to go farther and 

 faster than on the tires made for the heavier gasolene cars. Two 

 types of solid tires were shown — the Diamond "wire mesh base" 

 and the "side wire" — both made of a new rubber compound, al- 

 most white, and claimed to be extremely tough and resilient. 



Representatives. — A. H. Marks, manufacturer; W. B. Miller, sales 

 manager; O. J. Woodard, manager solid tire department. Branch man- 

 agers: C. H. Smith, Chicago; H. C. Miller, St. Louis; E. H. Fitch, 

 Philadelphia; G. J. Bradley, Cleveland; W. M. Perrett, Detroit; N. E. 

 Oliver, Buffalo; J. W. Paul, Pittsburgh; W. P. Cronin, Boston; W. E. 

 Roby, Minneapolis; W. D. Allbright, Pacific coast. James A. Braden, 

 advertising manager. Salesmen: H. P. Howlett, Boston; E. P. Webber, 

 Philadelphia; E. E. Tozier, Cleveland; E. B. Williams, H. C. Mills. B. \V. 

 Snowman, J. F. Lanier, George Davidson, J. B. Cothran and E. W. 

 Kidder, New York. 



Dow Tire Co. (New York). — The Dow non deflation tube, the 

 air holding property of which is due to the mechanical action of 

 a layer of flexible fabric about 3-32 inch thick, held in a chamber 

 molded in the walls of the tube. The intended result is to render 

 the tube self-sealing in the case of a puncture. 



Representatives. — Alexander Dow, president; Harry D. Gue, vice- 

 president; J. Abrahams, superintendent; Mr. Dunham, New York, sales- 

 man. 



Empire Automobile Tire Co. (Trenton, New Jersey). — 

 Clincher pneumatics with round, raised oval, and Midgley treads, 

 and inner tubes both red and gray. Also a line of tire accessories, 

 including "the tire preserver," which is a pad of cotton fabric 

 and rubber to fit over the inner tube with the purpose of 

 strengthening an old case which may have begun to break in the 

 fabric. Also the Empire secondary wire, rubber insulated, for 

 automobiles. 



Representatives. — Charles H. Semple, president; A. Boyd Cornell, sec- 

 retary; W. G. Whitlock, sales manager. Branch managers: E. B. McKay, 

 Chicago; W. H. Chadwick, Boston; H. B. Smith, Buffalo. E:. B. Rich- 

 ardson, general traveling salesman; J. C. West, Southern traveling sales- 

 man. 



Empire State Tire Co. (Buffalo, New York).— Greenwald non- 



