THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June 1, 1916. 



TRADE NOTES. 

 Taylor, Armilage & Co., Inc., well-known dealers in tire 

 fabrics of every description, and selling agents for the Amer- 

 ican Tire Fabric Co. and the Passaic Cotton Mills, have re- 

 moved their offices from 346 Broadway to the Equitable 

 Building, 120 Broadway, New York City. 



The Newark, New Jersey, branch of the McGraw Tire & Rub- 

 ber Co., East Palestine, Ohio, is being newly equipped with a 

 200-ton tire press and other machinery. A full stock of all sizes 

 of McGraw tires will be carried, in both the European and new 

 S. A. E. American types. F. B. Geary, formerly with the Kelly- 

 Springtield Tire Co., has been made manager of this branch, 

 succeeding W. P. Fraley. P. E. Hulick has been advanced to 

 the position of office and service station manager. 



The Fisk Rubber Co. of New York has opened offices at 11 

 Broadway, Bowling Green Building, for the handling of its 

 export trade. 



At the first meeting of the directors of the Hartford Rubber 

 Works Co., Hartford, Connecticut, following the annual meeting 

 on .iXpril 26, Charles B. Whittelsey was elected president, suc- 

 ceeding E. S. Williams. Mr. Whittelsey became connected with 

 the Hartford company IS years ago as clerk and has risen 

 through successive stages to his present prominence. The other 

 officers are as follows : Ernest Hopkinson, vice-president. New 

 York City ; James P. Krogh, treasurer, Hartford, Connecticut ; 

 John D. Carberry, secretary, New York City. 



At a meeting of the board of directors of the Motor & 

 Accessory Manufacturers held in New York City May 5, 

 H. E. Raymond and C. E. Whitney resigned as members 

 of the board. W. O. Rutherford, general sales manager of 

 The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, was elected to fill 

 Mr. Raymond's unexpired term as a board member, as well 

 as an executive committee member. The president also 

 appointed him a member of the finance committee. The 

 election of Mr. Whitney's successor was postponed. Chris- 

 tian Girl was made a member of the show and allotment 

 committee. 



At a recent meeting of The Motor Tire Reconstruction Co., 

 Norwalk, Connecticut, the following officers and directors were 

 elected: Richard Tjader, retired banker and African explorer, 

 president and director; M. D. Randall, vice-president Mianus 

 Manufacturing Co., Greenwich, Connecticut, vice-president and 

 director; W. E. Goldsborough, consulting engineer, New York 

 City, treasurer and director; R. S. B. Perry, physical director, 

 Montclair. New Jersey, secretary and director; F. C. Goodyear, 

 manager Royal James Inn, Norwalk, assistant secretary and di- 

 rector; Charles D. Burns, Secretary of State of Connecticut, and 

 Joseph J. Ryan, son of Thomas Fortune Ryan, financier, di- 

 rectors. 



Joseph Woodwell & Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have ar- 

 ranged with the Federal Rubber Manufacturing Co., Cudahy, 

 Wisconsin, to act as distributor of Federal tires in that territory. 

 The Woodwell company will take care of all adjustments, thereby 

 doing away with any possible delay. Harry Webb is manager 

 of the automobile department. 



At a recent meeting of the board of directors of the Alliance 

 Rubber Co., Alliance, Ohio, W. H. Christensen, superintendent 

 of the company, was elected to the board to fill the vacancy 

 caused by the death of G. C. Russell, late president. J. C. 

 Shiveley was elected president and treasurer, Milton Bejach, 

 vice-president and general manager, W. H. Christensen, secre- 

 tary, and John B. Pow, assistant treasurer. The Alliance com- 

 pany's statement to the board and stockholders of April 1 

 shows a 1500 per cent increase in business over the correspond- 

 ing period of 1915, the chief lines of manufacture now being 



automobile tires and inner tubes, although some mechanical goods 

 arc also manufactured. 



The Giant Rubber Co., Carlstadt, New Jersey, notice of whose 

 incorporation appeared in last month's issue of The India Rub- 

 ber World, has begun operations in a plant consisting of a two- 

 story building with extension covering an entire block. The 

 factory is being fully equipped for the manufacture of various 

 soft rubber goods, such as gloves, tubing, nipples, bags, etc., and 

 a specialty will be made of the manufacture of inner tubes for 

 automobile tires. For the present, the selling office of the com- 

 pany will be maintained at 217 Mercer street, New York City. 



The Perfection Tire & Rubber Co.. with factories at Fort 

 Madison, Iowa, and offices in the Marquette Building, Chi- 

 cago, Illinois, has leased the premises at 1002 Michigan avenue, 

 in the latter city, for the distribution of its product in Chicago 

 and northern Illinois. 



The Connecticut Mills Co., Danielson, Connecticut, maker of 

 tire fabrics, has acquired the Nemasket Spinning Mill at Taun- 

 ton, Massachusetts, which will be promptly equipped for a maxi- 

 mum production of 6,000,000 pounds per annum, which will give 

 that company its own spinning capacity for about one-half of 

 its weaving production at Danielson. The strike at the latter 

 mill, although not entirely overcome, is in process of adjust- 

 ment. 



The new owners of the Beaver Mills, North Adams, Massa- 

 chusetts, will make a line of tire fabrics which will require much 

 new machinery. Carding and twisting machinery from the Saco- 

 Lowell Shops is being installed and Whitin combers. The mill 

 will be operated in future by leased hydro-electric power from 

 the Connecticut Power Transmission Company. The New York 

 office of the Beaver Mills is at 299 Broadway. 



THE HICHELIN AMERICAN PLANT. 



A good year's work is shown in the Michelin Tire Co.'s plant 

 at Milltown, New Jersey, ground for which was broken on June 

 3 of last year, and seven of the buildings being now completed 

 and the eighth probably finished within the present month. The 

 plant, when completed, will have about 8V'2 acres of floor space 

 and it is claimed to be the largest tire plant in America. The 

 property consists of about 80 acres of ground on which were 

 four large buildings which had been used by the International 

 A. & V. Tire Co. It was decided to use these only for store- 

 houses and offices, and the eight new buildings mentioned have 

 therefore been built for the factory. It is stated that when this 

 manufacturing plant is completed no visits of inspection will be 

 allowed, this being the Michelin inflexible policy and tlie rule 

 in all of his plants in France, England and Italy. Indeed it is 

 said that at one time the Queen of Italy desired to inspect the 

 processes of manufacture at the Turin factory but permission 

 was refused. 



CANNOT REGISTER "NOBBY" IN AUSTRALIA. 



The United States Rubber Co. was especially fortunate 

 in its choice of the word "Nobby" as a trade-mark for one 

 brand of its tires, inasmuch as there is a double meaning 

 attached to the word, one meaning aristocratic or elegant 

 and the other really descriptive of the tread, which is covered 

 with knobs. When this company applied for registration of 

 this word as a trade-mark in Australia the examiner objected 

 on the ground that the word was descriptive of the character 

 and quality of the goods, since it was commonly accepted 

 as meaning, having an aristocratic appearance, showy, elegant, 

 fashionable, smart. An appeal was taken to the registrar, 

 but he sustained the decision of his subordinate, basing his 

 opinion on the definition of the word in the Century dic- 

 tionary. 



