1. 1916.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



During tlie past year the McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., East 

 Palestine, Ohio, has established both pneumatic and truck tire 

 branches in most of the principal cities of the United States. 

 The most recent addition is at Detroit, Michigan, located in 

 the Dime Savings Bank Building, and is under the supervision 

 of G. W. Tiffany, formerly with the Gibney Tire & Rubber Co. 



The Brooklyn. Xew York, branch of the Firestone Tire 

 & Rubber Co., .\kron, Ohio, will remove soon after January 1 

 to a building at Sterling Place and Bedford avenue, recently 

 purchased from the Ford Automobile Co. The building will 

 be utilized solely for the distribution of Firestone goods for 

 Brooklyn and Long Island. A portion will be used as a 

 service station, with a complete shop equipment for the repair 

 and application of solid motor truck tires. 



The Eastern Rubber Co., 1529 Ridge avenue, Philadelphia. 

 Pennsylvania, which has been e.xperimenting for some time. 

 announces that a compound that makes a perfect inner tube 

 joint, without the use of acid or heat, has been perfected. 



.■\n issue of $850,000 in 7 per cent preferred stock of the 

 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. of Canada, Limited— a subsidiar 

 the Goodyear company of Akron, Ohio — has been put on 

 the market for the purpose of enabling the Canadian company 

 to redeem common stock which is owned entirely by the 

 Akron company. This will give the Canadian company 

 greater financial independence, but the business connection 

 between the two companies will still be continued. The 

 Canadian company was organized to overcome the high tariff 

 rates of rubber goods that are in effect between the United 

 States and Canada. 



The Schelp-Budke Tire & Rubber Co.. St. Louis. Missouri. 

 has recently acquired the agency in Missouri and Southern 

 Illinois for the pneumatic and solid tires of the Victor Rubber 

 Co.. Springfield. Ohio. 



The Dry Climate Tire Co.. Denver. Colorado, intends to 

 establish a branch plant at El Paso, Texas, for the manu- 

 facture of casings and inner tubes for automobiles and 

 bicycles. 



The Mason Tire & Rubber Co., Cleveland, Ohio, has de- 

 cided to locate at Kent, Ohio, and will erect a concrete l)uiUling 

 with a floor space of 30,000 square feet. The estimated cost is 

 $60,000. 



The plant, property and equipment of The Morgan & Marshall 

 Rubber & Tire Co., manufacturer of automobile tires and tubes, 

 was sold on November 30. to J. C. McLean, president of the 

 M. & M. Co., Cleveland, Ohio, by the receivers. The price paid 

 is stated to have been $47,600. It is expected that the M. & M. 

 Co., which is a supply house, will take up the manufacture of 

 tires. 



The McNaull Tire Co., Toledo, Ohio, whose incorporation was 

 mentioned in the December issue of The Indi.\ Rubber World, 

 succeeds the McNaull .Auto-Tire Co. The new company pro- 

 poses to erect larger buildings and employ 1,000 additional men. 

 \V. D. McNaull is the president of the company ; M. VV. McNaull. 

 vice-president; .-\. B. Laskey, secretary, and Ole Hilmer, sales 

 manager. Mr. McNaull is the patentee of the McNaull boiler, 

 built by the McNaull Manufacturing Co. 



The Standard Tire & Rubber Co., with offices in the Hii)po- 

 drome building. Cleveland. Ohio, and factory at Willoughby, 

 Ohio, is manufacturing a line of tires and tubes with a 5,000-mile 

 guarantee. This is one of the newer companies of the Middle 

 West, and is said to be operated under particularly capable man- 

 agement, as the executive force, factory superintendent, and vari- 

 ous heads of departments have had long and successful experience 

 in tire manufacture. The president of the company, Mark Gillen, 

 is well known in rubber circles, having been identified with some 

 of the largest rubber mills of tlu- country for many years. 



AN INGENIOUS WINDOW PISPLAY. 

 .A method of displaying goods in a show window that is alike 

 unique, original and calculated to prove profitable to the retailer 

 has been devised by Charles E. Miller, Anderson Rubber Works, 

 Anderson, Indiana. The drum, which we show, is four feet in 

 diameter, octagonal in form, and fills the show window of a 36- 

 foot store, having a display surface of about 432 square feet. The 

 goods are attached to the drum in such a manner as to preserve 



Revolving Window Displ.w. 



its balance, the figures being so written and displayed as to be 

 plainly legible from outside. Other index figures refer to the bin, 

 etc., in which the article is to be found. 



By means of an electric motor, operated from a 16-candle power 

 lighting socket, the drum is slowly revolved, making a complete 

 revolution in about 40 seconds. By this means the display of a 

 large assortment of goods is made possible, while the novelty of 

 the device and the steadily appearing and disappearing lines of 

 goods is certain to attract the attention of the passing pedestrian, 

 with the possibility of its presenting something that he wants. 



A CHANGE THAT MEANS EXPANSION. 



The Lee Rubber & Tire Corporation, the incorporation of 

 which is noted elsewhere in the present issue of this paper, held 

 a meeting for organization on December 20, 1915, at which offi- 

 cers were elected as follows : President, .■Mbert A. Garthwaite, 

 formerly president of the Lee Tire & Rubber Co., Consho- 

 hocken, Pennsylvania ; vice-president and chairman of board of 

 directors, John J. Watson, Jr. ; assistant secretary and assistant 

 treasurer, William McCaw. The new corporation has acquired 

 all the bonds, and the preferred and common stock of the com- 

 pany it succeeds. The bonds will be retired, and with extra capi- 

 tal, its business in the manufacture of tires, surgical and miscel- 

 laneous rubber goods, carried on at its plants at Spring Mill 

 and Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, will be greatly extended, the 

 tire making capacity alone to be increased froiu 1,500 to 3.000 

 per day. 



GILLETTE SAFETY TIRE CO.'S NEW PLANT. 



Tlie Gillette Safety Tire Co., Inc., formerly of Grand Rapids, 

 Michigan, has commenced operations on the erection of a new 

 plant at Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The initial one-story building 

 is to be 60 X 250 feet, of brick and reinforced concrete. It is lo- 

 cated and constructed to permit additions being made at any time. 

 The latest improved machinery will be installed, and the initial 

 output will be 100 tires and tubes daily. The company will also 

 manufacture solid tires for trucks and heavy vehicles, and every- 

 thing in the line of tire accessories. A temporary office has been 

 opened in Eau Claire, with Vice-President H. B. Gillette and 

 Secretary J. S. Wilson in charge. 



