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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October 1, 191S. 



President H. S. Firestone, in his annual report at the meeting of 

 the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., held at the general offices at 

 Akron, September 1, stated that sales during the fiscal year 

 amounted to $25,187,884.33, an increase of $5,937,744.41, or 31 per 

 cent, over the preceding year. He explained that the company 

 is now producing 7,500 pneumatic tires daily and that after the 

 factory additions now under way are completed it will turn out 

 12,000 tires per day, or an increase of 60 per cent. All the old 

 directors were re-elected. 



The Firestone company has contracted for an eight-story build- 

 ing at Kansas City, Missouri, to be completed next spring. It 

 will be built of steel and concrete with a terra cotta exterior, 

 and will cost between $150,000 and $200,000. The first floors are 

 to be occupied by the tire company and the top floors leased 

 for loft uses. 



The Firestone Company held its third annual "Homestead 

 Outing" on September 18. Fifty autos decorated with flags, ban- 

 ners and pennants carried foremen, superintendents and oflicials 

 numbering 200. sixty miles to the old Firestone homestead at 



"Homestead Uuti> 



3T0NE Tire & Rlbbek Co. 



Columbiana, where they spent the day as guests of President 

 H. S. Firestone. Following a bountiful feast in an immense tent, 

 all renewed their youth with happy zest in ball games, "quoits," 

 etc. ; camera and "movie" men snapping the various activities for 

 a permanent record of the day of jollification. 



Five new buildings in Akron are nearing completion for the 

 plant of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. This will mean an 

 addition of about 2,000 more employees. 



It is reported that the Goodyear company has sold to the Span 

 ish government two war balloons, which are now being built at 

 the aerial department of the Goodyear plant. 



The office help of the Goodyear company are now carried to 

 and from work in a double-decked 34-passenger jitney owned 

 by the company. In appearance the new transportation wagon 

 resembles a truck with a second floor attached. 



The Marion Tire & Rubber Co., which was recently incor- 

 porated in Marion, Ohio, has taken over the plant formerly oc- 

 cupied by a shoe company and will install tire-making machinery. 

 It is announced that an Akron rubber man will manage the 

 plant, but his name has not been divulged. It is planned to start 

 active business in about six months. The capitalization of the 

 company is $300,000. of which one-half is preferred stock, the 



other half being common. J. L. Price, S. B. Lippincott, W. H. 

 Holverstott, R. T. Lewis, A. J. Berry, W. T. Jones and W. F. 

 Moyer are the principal stockholders in the new corporation. 



The Mohawk Rubber Co. is planning to erect a two-story 

 addition to the new four-story building now nearing completion. 

 The dimensions of this addition will be 43 x 61 feet and it will 

 cost about $5,000. 



The name of the Gordon Rubber Co. of Canton, Ohio, has been 

 changed to the Gordon Tire & Rubber Co. The firm will 

 specialize in the manufacture of automobile tires. 



Papers have been filed changing the name of the O'Neil Tire 

 & Protector Co. to the O'Neil Tire & Rubber Co. 



It is reported that the American Tire & Rubber Co. has re- 

 ceived a large order for tires for the Allies. The company has 

 advertised for an additional force of tire makers. 



The Miller Rubber Co. has started a free tire service in Akron 

 which has attracted widespread attention. Five service cars 

 have been allotted to this work, and no matter what make of 

 tire is used a telephone call will bring a service car to fix the 

 lroiil)le free of charge. 



Stockholders of the Excel Rubber Co., makers of rubber ac- 

 cessories, have asked for a receiver. The company's liabilities 

 are said to be $16,000, with assets of $6,000. 



Harry C. Miller has been appointed general sales manager of 

 the pneumatic tire department of the B. F. Goodrich Co., suc- 

 ceeding F. I. Reynolds, who resigned last June. He will have 

 the management of both the Goodrich and Diamond pneumatic 

 tire sales and will make his headquarters at the factory in Akron. 



Mr. Miller has had a comprehensive experience in other 

 branches of the company, having handled equipment contracts 

 with the big Michigan manufacturers when he was manager of 

 the Detroit branch, and having had charge for several years 

 ]iast of all sales on the Pacific Coast and in the Hawaiian Islands 

 ,ind the Orient. 



C. B. Raymond, secretary of the Goodrich company, was among 

 the principal speakers at the opening of the new Akron water 

 works on September 1. 



Robert K. Sheppard, formerly manager of sales for the in- 

 sulated-wire department of the Goodrich company, is now sales 

 manager for the Simplex Wire & Cable Co., Boston. 



George Talbot, one of the oldest men in point of service in 

 the sales department of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., 

 has been elected mayor of Urbana, one of the leading cities in 

 Illinois, where he will assume his duties on the first of the year. 



THE RUBBER TRADE ON THE PACinC COAST. 



The Los Angeles branch of the Federal Rubber Co. has moved 

 from South Olive street to larger and more commodious quarters 

 in the Morrison Holet Building, at Pico and Hope streets. 



The Hunter-Smith Sales Co. have adopted the plan of sending 

 out a Sunday service car on the various highways at Tacoma, 

 fully equipped with a wrecking crew, a full line of tires, and all 

 necessary implements to extricate stranded motor cars from 

 ditches and hazardous places. This should be a great boon to 

 tourists. 



Charles H. Minto, well and favorably known in the automobile, 

 motor and bicycle tire trade, and for the past fifteen years con- 

 nected with the Hartford Rubber Works and their successors, 

 the United Stales Rubber Co. of California, has recently been 

 appointed manager of the tire department of the San Francisco 

 store. 



