November 1, 1916.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



95 



TRADE NOTES. 



At the annual election of the McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., 

 held at the company's offices, East Palestine, Ohio, the following 

 officers were elected : E. C. McGraw, president ; R. W. McGraw, 

 vice-president ; John Morgan, secretary, and L. M. Kyes, treas- 

 urer, the shares of the common stock were increased from 

 20,000 to 40,000, changing the par value from $100 to $50 per 

 share. The capital stock of the company was increased from 

 $3,000,000 to $4,000,000 equally divided between common and 

 preferred. A daily output of 5,000 tires is in early prospect. 



The F. E. Partridge Rubber Co. has recently transferred its 

 factories from Montreal, Quebec, to Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 

 enlarged facilities being thus provided for the manufacture of 

 the company's numerous lines of rubber goods, as well as spe- 

 cial advantages for handling an increasing trade in druggists' 

 sundries, automobile tubes and tire accessories. To its estab- 

 lished range of trade-mark goods, the company has now added 

 the manufacture of automobile tires. 



The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has purchased 

 a lot at the corner of Broad and Kinney streets, Newark, New 

 Jersey, and will build thereon a three-story structure 50 x 170 

 feet, to be used as a tire service station. 



As soon as a satisfactory site is secured, the Sioux City Tire 

 Manufacturing Co. will commence the erection of its plant, 

 which will probably take the form of a three-story structure, 

 ISO by 50 feet. 



The Lapeer Commercial Club, of Lapeer, Michigan, is negotiat- 

 ing for the establishment of a tire manufacturing enterprise in 

 that city, which is prepared to subscribe $25,000 toward a site 

 and building. 



P. H. Boalen, formerly manager of the automobile supply 

 department of the Bailey Co., has recently been appointed head 

 of the sales department of the Mason Tire & Rubber Co., 1806 

 Euclid avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. The factories of the company 

 are at Kent, Ohio. 



The Atlantic Tire & Rubber Co., Wilmington, Delaware, will 

 change its name to Boone Tire & Rubber Co. 



The $250,000 plant of the J. & D. Tire & Rubber Co., at Char- 

 lotte, North Carolina, is now nearing completion. The estimated 

 output will be 350 tires a day. H. O. Smith is president of the 

 company. 



The Ackerman Wheel Co., founded by A. H. Ackerraan, has 

 organized a $2,500,000 corporation for the manufacture of the 

 Ackerman wheel, a new device for the correction of tire troubles. 

 The new wheel is equipped with spring steel spokes and solid 

 tires. It is stated that negotiations for a $250,000 plant, at Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, have recently been closed. 



It is stated that the capacity of the Morgan & Wright factory 

 of the United .States Tire Co., at Detroit, Michigan, where the 

 Royal Cord tires are made, will be doubled by or before the in- 

 coming of 1917. 



The Mutual Tire & Rubber Co., whose incorporation was 

 noted in the October issue of The India Rubber World, is a 

 cooperative organization, which offers its stockholders tires, 

 which are the product of the company at a discount from list 

 prices. The officers of the company are William McKay, presi- 

 dent ; C. E. Barker, vice-president and treasurer, and John Hall 

 Jones, secretary. The executive officers are at 30 East Forty- 

 second street, New York City. 



The plant of the Lion Tire & Rubber Co., at LaFayette, In- 

 diana, is approaching completion, and is expected to be in work- 

 ing order and producing tires and tubes before the first of the 

 year. The building is of brick, two stories and basement, 100 

 by 180 feet. Calenders, washers and machinery have been in- 

 stalled for the production of 200 tires and tubes a day. The 



plant is excellently located, is 5 acres in extent, adjoining the 

 Belt railroad, thus furnishing advantageous shipping facilities. 

 The board of directors includes several of the leading business 

 and financial men of LaFayette, Decatur and Peru, Indiana, and 

 Chicago, Illinois. 



Plans for the proposed Westgard Tire & Rubber Co., to be 

 erected at Warren, Ohio, are being prepared by a well-known 

 concern of Cleveland, Ohio, architects. The main building will 

 consist of two stories and basement, 100 by 240 feet, of fireproof 

 construction. The power plant will be a separate one-story build- 

 ing, 40 feet square. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



The title of Joseph C. Weston, of the United States Tire Co., 

 New York City, has been changed from general sales manager 

 to director of sales, and O. S. Tweedy has been appointed gen- 

 eral branch sales manager, instead of assistant general sales 

 manager. 



H. H. Grobe, formerly manager of the truck tire department 

 of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. in New York City and terri- 

 tory, has been given charge of the Baltimore, Maryland, branch, 

 beginning November 1. Mr. Grobe has been with the company 

 for five years. 



F. J. Loewe will be general manager of the new tire plant of 

 the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. at Muskegon, Michigan. 



John J. Kearns, a vice-president of the Fisk Rubber Co. and 

 head of the research department, and two of his assistants, W. 

 W. Whiting and John C. Cole, have resigned their positions with 

 that company. 



Horace W. Hakes, a well-known Michigan tire man, has taken 

 the agency of the Republic Rubber Co., for western Michigan. 

 Mr. Hakes is prominent in masonic and political circles. 



Erwin Oberheu has been appointed manager of the Columbus, 

 New Mexico, depot of The B. F. Goodrich Co. 



Walter T. Sewell, sales manager of the Sewell Cushion Wheel 

 Co., is making a trip through the East and will meet the branch 

 selling organizations of the company in Pittsburgh, Baltimore, 

 Philadelphia, New York and Boston, to discuss plans for the 

 coming year. 



F. W. Sherwood has been made assistant manager of the New 

 York City branch of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. Mr. Sher- 

 wood is well known in the tire business, having previously been 

 New York manager of the Gibney Tire & Rubber Co. He was 

 also one of the early salesmen of the Diamond Rubber Co. and, 

 later, truck tire manager for the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. 



CHANGES IN UNITED MOTORS CORPORATION. 



William M. Sweet, for ten years general manager of the Moloi 

 and Accessory Manufacturers, the national organization of tlie 

 accessory industry, of which tires form an important part, has 

 become assistant to the president of the United Motors Corpora- 

 tion, New York City. This recently incorporated firm is a hold- 

 ing company with Delco, Hyatt, New Departure, Remy, Klaxon 

 and Perlman as its subsidiaries. Mr. Sweet has assumed the 

 management of the new corporation as the representative of the 

 president and board of directors, and will doubtless find his 

 previous experience of great value to him in the present de- 

 velopment work along similar lines. While the board of di- 

 rectors felt compelled to accept Mr. Sweet's resignation as presi- 

 dent, they elected him a member of the board to succeed Mr. 

 Lovell, and he will serve until 1919. He was also elected chair- 

 man of the 1917 banquet committee. 



L. M. Bradley, advertising manager of the "American Motor- 

 ist," official publication of the American Automobile Association, 

 has been elected general manager of The Motor and Accessory 

 Manufacturers' Association, succeeding Mr. Sweet. 



