THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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\ktiilr Jackson Wills. 



ARTHUR JACKSON WILLS. 



IT is gratifying to introduce to the readers of The India Ribber 

 ■* World, and to the rubber trade in general, men who are 

 active in prnmoling efficiency in the inamifacturing processes of 

 the industry. 



The career of .Vrthur Jackson Wills as an inventor of special 

 iiKicliincry lici;:iii with liis comui-ticin, nboiit ten years ago. with 

 the B & R Rubber 

 Co., North Brook- 

 tield, Massachusetts. 

 -Mr. Wills is a New 

 Yorker and a gradu- 

 ■ite of the Stevens 

 Institute of Tech- 

 nology, in mechan- 

 ical engineering. His 

 first invention of 

 special rubber mak- 

 ing machinery was 

 an automatic jar 

 ring cutting lathe. 

 Supplementary to 

 this machine, Mr. 

 \\ ills invented a 

 carton erecting and 

 tilling machine for 

 counting and box- 

 iiic: jar rings. 



Probably his most 

 widely known inven- 

 tion is a trimmer 

 for removiag the 

 overflow from the edges of rubber heels or similar molded ar- 

 ticles. These machines are installed in large groups in some of 

 the most important rubber factories in America and Europe. 



His latest development is a machine designed to produce the 

 plaited edging for bathing caps made from thin, pure rubber 

 sheet or strip stock. 



All of Mr. Wills' machines are most efficient and have been 

 adopted by manufacturers of the lines to which they are adapted. 

 He certainly is to be congratulated on the show-ing he has made 

 as a designer of special rubber machinery, during the compara- 

 tively few years he has devoted to the needs of the rubber in- 

 dustry. 



PEARCE-AEROW TIRE & KUBBEK MANUFACTURING CO. 



The Pcarce-.\rrow Tire & Rubber Manufacturing Co.. Phila- 

 delphia, Pennsylvania, has purchased the assets and equipment 

 of the Germantown Almegum Manufacturing Co., assigned, 

 operating the plant leased under a purchase proposal, which has 

 since been confirmed by the United States District Court. 



The Pearce-.Arrow company is making three grades of tires, a 

 "Jit," "Standard" and "Puncture Proof,' and turns out about 400 

 tires per day. A new building is being planned, to care for in- 

 creasing demand, and the company hopes to have equipment in- 

 stalled allowing for a daily output of 800 tires in time for 1918 

 business. H. H. .\llyn, formerly with the Canadian Consolidated 

 Rubber Co. and later with the I.ec Tire & Rubber Co., is the 

 superintendent. 



RAPID PROGRESS OF THE NORWALK COMPANY. 



The output of the Norwalk Tire & Rubber Co., Norwalk, Con- 

 necticut, has been more than doubled during the past year, and 

 is now operating at full capacity day and night and turning out 

 in the neighborhood of 2,000 tubes and 200 cases daily. Dr. 

 David Spence, the well-known technologist, has been vice-presi- 

 dent and general superintendent of the company since its in- 

 ception in the spring of March. 1914. 



TRADE NOTES. 



Dr. H. R. McCurdy has been appointed receiver of the Mc- 

 Clurg Tire & Rubber Co., of Coshocton, Ohio. A suit for $15,0(K1 

 and inability of the company to market its product is given as 

 the reason for the receivership. It is thought that this will be of 

 short duration and that business will be resumed on the old 

 basis, as there is said to be sufficient stock on hand to make this 

 probable. 



Important changes in the official force of the Perfection Tire 

 & Rubber Co., Chicago, Illinois, resulted from a series of elec- 

 tions and appointments recently made. The oflicers and directors 

 representing three companies which have been merged, including 

 tlic Perfection Tire & Rubber Co., the Champion .'Vutomobile Co., 

 and the Perfection Tire & Rubber Co. of Canada, Limited, will' 

 control all of the concerns. The present officers of the newly 

 effected combination are C. R. Cole, president; R. J. Evans, vice- 

 president; Charles W. Harris, secretary; E. A. Stickleman 

 treasurer, and T. J. Mell, general manager. Mr. Mell was for- 

 merly assistant general manager of the Republic Rubber Co. 

 Other executives who have been prominently identified with 

 standard tire manufacturing companies are, Charles W. Harris, 

 the secretary, formerly connected with the Kelly-Springfield Tire 

 Co., and C. D. Whitston, the general sales manager, well known 

 in connection with the old Diamond Rubber Co, 



The .American Auto Tire Co., 154 North Broad street, Phila- 

 delphia, Pennsylvania, has purchased the old Patterson Textile 

 mills in Chester, Pennsylvania. The mills will be enlarged and 

 converted into an automobile tire manufacturing plant. George 

 G. Meeley is president, and Hugh B. Turner, secretary and treas- 

 urer. The Patterson mills are on a tract of six acres on Chester 

 River and the line of the Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington 

 Railroad. The structures consist of the main building, of stone, 

 76 by 316 feet, three stories ; a two-story brick building, 80 by 

 188 feet, a brick and frame building, 64 by 123 feet, a brick build- 

 ing, 33 by 74 feet; a brick boiler and engine house, and a iwc- 

 story brick and stone office building. 



The Braender Rubber & Tire Co., Rutherford, New Jersey, 

 has moved its Philadelphia branch to 675 North Broad street. 



At a recently held annual meeting of the shareholders of the 

 Kansas City Tire & Rubber Co., Kansas City, Missouri, the fol- 

 lowing directors were elected for the ensuing year : P. E. Werner. 

 Frank A. Werner, W. W. Wuchter, L. J. Smith, Harry Good- 

 man, William R. Swissler and William Gould. 



The Ohio Tire Service Co. has removed to 70 North Fourth 

 street, Columbus, Ohio, where a greatly increased stock of Ohio 

 tires and tubes will be carried. J. C. Henne, manager of the 

 company, recently ordered five carloads of these tires for the 

 Columbus store. 



Suit was recently filed in the United States District Court to 

 compel a number of alleged subscribers to the stock of the Dread- 

 naught Tire & Rubber Co., Baltimore, Maryland, to pay their 

 subscriptions. 



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

 opened a service, repair and selling agency at Bismarck, North 

 Dakota. This business was formerly handled through the Fargo 

 branch. 



The -McGraw Tire and Rubber Co., East Palestine, Ohio, is 

 increasing its capital stock to $4,000,000; $2,000,000 of which will 

 )>e common capital stock; and $2,000,000 of which will be 7 per 

 cent cumulative preferred capital stock, redeemable at 110 and 

 accrued dividends. $1,000,000 of the new preferred stock has 

 been underwritten by The Maynard H. Murch Co., Cleveland. 

 Ohio, and will be utilized to retire the present outstanding issue 

 and to furnish additional working capital to care for increased 

 business; the remaining $1,000,000 of preferred stock will be 

 placed in the treasury to care for future growth and expansion. 



