THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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The New York Automobile Show. 



ALL records in attendance and number of exliiliits were 

 broken at the sixteenth annual National Automobile 

 Show held at the Grand Central Palace, New York City, 

 from December 31 to January 8. As generally expected, the 

 most prominent tire manufacturers did not exhibit, but the 

 many cars shown were equipped with standard tires and tops 

 made of standard fabrics. Among the many exhibits of tires 



Louisville, Kentucky, attracted much attention on account of its 

 puncture-closing qualities. 



In the booth of the Essex Rubber Co., Inc., Trenton, New 

 Jersey, there was exhibited an attractive line of blue, red and 

 gray inner tubes, together with patches, reliners and other auto- 

 mobile accessories. 



Shown in a prominent position on the fourth floor, a large 



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vith, which 

 vas shown, 

 the Dayton Rubber 



and automobile accessories that helped to make the shov 

 teresting and instructive were the following : 



TIRES AND TUBES. 



The new tread of the Dayton tire, illustrated her 

 has a heavier central rib than the former design, 

 together with the Dayton airless tire. 

 Manufacturing Co., Dayton, Ohio. 



The Marathon "Whip-Cord" tires and tubes attracted atten- 

 tion to the booth of the Marathon Tire & Rubber Co., Cuya- 

 hoga Falls, Ohio. 



Many people were interested in watching a tire-maker build 

 up "Sterling" tires oil a tire core jack at the exhibit of the 

 Rutherford Rubber Co., Rutherford, New Jersey. Beside tires 

 and tubes, this company displayed the "Sterling" red fiber tnat 

 for Ford cars. 



Double fabric tires and "Anti-Pinch." "Double Rubber" and 

 red "Interlock" inner tubes constituted the display of the Double 

 Fabric Tire Co., Auburn, Indiana. 



The "Victory" tire, of molded cellular construction, sealed by 

 the base strip and the tread, was exhibited by the Milne Tire 

 Co., Inc., New York City. 



Story & Reed, New Y'ork City, demonstrated the air-retaining 

 qualities of the "Brown Scientific" tube, which is claimed to be 

 self-closing when punctured, and of w^hich a cross section view 

 is reproduced. This tube, which is made with an extra thick 

 tread, has a strip of non-stretchable fabric vulcanized into the 

 tread close to its inner surface. The t-ube is then turned inside 

 out and the ends joined. As the larger outside circumference 

 becomes the inner circumference, the rubber on the inside is 

 always compressed, thus rendering puncture holes self-closing. 

 The "Miller" pneumatic tire was shown in the same booth. 



Another inner- .tube of thick rubber, called the "Compression," 

 and manufactured by the Compression Inner Tube Co., Inc.. 



line of tubes, patches, reliners, cushions and specialties manu- 

 factured by the \'oorhees Rubber Manufacturing Co., Jersey 

 City, New Jersey, received much attention from the visitors. 



REPAIRING DEVICES. 



The .\danison Manufacturing Co., East Palestine, Ohio, made 

 ail attractive exhibit of its various vulcanizers, kits and repair- 

 ing devices, including the new "Model H" vulcanizer, designed 

 to accommodate three tubes at a time and provided with a 

 hood for carrying off fumes. 



"Magic Rubber Mend," a quick vulcanizing rubber prepara- 

 tion for repairing tubes, boots and other rubber goods, was 

 shown by the Eastern Rubber Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

 and attracted much attention, as did the "Cementless Cure" 

 patches manufactured by Charles O. Tingley & Co., Rahway, 

 New Jersey. 



For the prevention of tire troubles, the Newmastic Co., New 

 York City, exhibited sections of tubes that had been filled with 

 "Newmastic," a preparation injected through the air valve, and 

 the Woodbridge Chemical Co., New York City, demonstrated 

 its preparation, "Air-In-.Al." 



Reliners. boots, patches and accessories were shown by Paul 

 G. Niehoff & Co., Chicago, Illinois: the Poison Rubber Co., 

 Kansas City, Missouri, and the General Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Akron, Ohio. 



Stevens & Co., New Y'ork City, exhibited the "Sampson 

 Feather-Edge" inner tube plug for tube repairs; the Spitler 

 Puncture Plug Co., New York City, showed its line of "Spitler" 

 puncture plugs, and C. .\. Shaler Co., Waupun, Wisconsin, pre- 

 sented a display of repair vulcanizing outfits. 



OTHER TIRE ACCESSORIES. 



An exceedingly interesting exhibit of the Schrader "Univer- 

 sal" tire pressure gage, valves, valve accessories and repair tools 



