THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



617 



TRADE NOTES. 



Charles E. Miller, Anderson, Indiana, has just completed a 

 new brick addition to accommodate the increased demand of the 

 rubber department. This structure adds about 3,500 square feet 

 ot floor space to the factory. .\ second addition is in early- 

 prospect. 



It is said that the McGraw Tire & Rubber Co. will erect a 

 warehouse at 135 Mt. Royal avenue, Baltimore, ^laryland. 



The Lee Tire & Rubber Co., Spring Hill, Pennsylvania, has 

 resumed operation after the annual Fourth of July and stock- 

 taking suspension. 



Thomas Midgley has petitioned to enjoin the Lancaster Tire 

 & Rubber Co. from using the word "Midgley" in connection 

 with its products, his contention being that the Lancaster com- 

 pany has not lived up to an agreement made at the time he 

 severed relations with the company, that at the expiration of 

 three months, the use of his name in connection with its tires 

 would be discontinued. 



More than 1,000 employes of the McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., 

 East Palestine, Ohio, have formed the McGraw Rubber Club, 

 a social organization. To keep in touch with the activities of 

 the club, a bright little four-page paper, entitled "The Rubber 

 Leaf," is to be published, bi-monthly. Lewis E. Stein is the 

 editor. 



The Fisk Rubber Co.. Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, has 

 equipped all the new Indian motorcycles of the machine gun 

 company of the Second Regiment, M. V. M., bound for the 

 Me.xican border, with "Red Top" motorcycle tires, free of 

 charge. The labor troubles which have kept the tire makers away 

 for three weeks have been finally settled, and they are now back 

 at work. 



The Continental Rubber Co., Sandusky, Ohio, is erecting a 

 two-story building, 50 by 200 feet, on West Monroe street. It 

 is expected that the plant will be ready for operation by No- 

 vember 1, with a capacity of 200 tires a day. H. H. Herman, 

 formerly with the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., will be super- 

 intendent. 



The Hester Tire & Rubber Co. has obtained a site at Lima, 

 ■Ohio, upon which a main factory building, 60 by 150 feet, and 

 a power house, 60 feet square, are to be erected. The company 

 officials state that work on the buildings will soon be started, 

 and machinery will be installed before early fall. The capacity 

 of the plant will be 100 tires per day and 100 men will be em- 

 , ployed. A second building for the manufacture of motor truck 

 tires is also contemplated. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, has opened a pneu- 

 matic tire service station at Yosemite National Park. Yo- 

 semite, California. This store will be under the jurisdiction 

 of the San Francisco branch and will be in charge of S. M. 

 Wynne. 



The Blow Tire Sealer Co., at 21st and Race streets, Phila- 

 delphia, Pennsylvania, is putting a new tire sealer on the market. 



The Kelly quick detachable wire wheel is now to be manufac- 

 tured and aggressively marketed by the Craftsmen Motor Cor- 

 poration, Chicago, Illinois. 



The Bates Puncture Plugger, a plastic preparation for use 

 in tires, is said to be a most effective resistant to punctures, and 

 occupies but 5 per cent of air space. It is the invention of 

 Edgar L. Bates, a western chemist, and controlled by Paul Richey 

 ■ of the Russell M. Seeds Co., Indianapolis, Indiana. 



The Pan-American Rubber Co., Milwaukee. Wisconsin, notice 

 • of whose incorporation appears elsewhere in this issue, takes 



over the business of the Sporub Tire Co., which has been manu- 

 facturing inner tubes for about ten months. Factory quarters 

 have been leased in the Kopmeier building, and a large pro- 

 duction is planned. F. J. Ramler is president and general man- 

 ager of the new company. Mr. Ramler is half owner of the 

 Standard Racine Rubber Co., Milwaukee, and a large stock- 

 holder in the Racine Rubber Co., Racine, Wisconsin, having 

 been engaged in the rubber and tire business for more than 16 

 years. 



The Chicago, Illinois, branch of the Fisk Rubber Co. has been 

 removed from 1440 Michigan avenue to new quarters at 2508 

 Michigan avenue, with a service station at 53-59 East Twenty- 

 fifth street. The new office is complete and up-to-date in every 

 detail, the building being two stories high, with basement, and 

 having a 40-foot frontage and 190-foot depth. Wayne Mur- 

 ray, for five years in charge of this company's business in Texas, 

 is manager. 



CHANGES AT GOODRICH DEPOTS. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co., .A.kron, Ohio, has recently re-opened 

 its depot at Sacramento, California, located at 1129 Ninth 

 street. George M. Gay has been appointed local manager. 



The temporary store of the Goodrich company at Columbus, 

 New Mexico, which has been operated as part of the depot 

 at El Paso, Texas, is now maintained as a separate service 

 station, Charles R. Serfass continuing in charge. The prin- 

 cipal activity of this depot will be caring for government busi- 

 ness incident to the militarv activity on the Mexican border. 



THE BRUNSWICK COMPANY WILL MAKE TIRES. 



The Brunswick-Balke-Collendcr Co., Chicago, Illinois, has 

 greatly increased its rubber factory capacity and will enter the 

 automobile field with a complete* line of automobile rubber parts 

 and accessories, from tires to the smallest rubber unit found 

 on a car. 



The accompanying illustration shows the newly erected addi- 

 tion to this company's factory at ^Muskegon. Michigan, where 



the Brunswick Skid-Not tire and a new punijuiu .->tli-ln.aling 

 tube are manufactured. 



J. E. Duffield, formerly Western manager for the Thermoid 

 Rubber Co. and more recently connected with the United Statel 

 Rubber Co. interests, will be sales manager for the entire rubber 

 goods and automobile accessories division. 



TRUCKS MUST BE RUBBER-TIRED IN MONTREAL. 



Complaining of the deterioration in the city's streets caused 

 by truck wheels, Montreal, Canada, has passed a law compelling 

 truck owners to provide the wheels of their vehicles with tires 

 made of rubber, or of some other resilient material that will 

 not injure the surface of the streets. 



