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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Df.cember 1, 1916. 



TRADE NOTES. 

 The Reliable Tire & Rul.hcr Co. of New England has changed 

 its name to Inter.statc Rubber Co. and has removed its Boston 

 (Massachusetts) office to 392-394 Newbury street. This change 

 of name was considered advisable by the stockholders because 

 the company distributes more than one brand of automobile 

 tires. 



The Armstrong Rubber Co., Inc., having removed its factory 

 to 118-122 .Adams street, Newark, has discontinued its corpora- 

 tion in the State of New York and incorporated in the State 

 of New Jersey for the same amount, $200,000. This company 

 manufactures the well-known Armstrong tube equii)ped with 

 the Kahn automatic valve. 



The F. E. Partridge Co., Limited, notice of whose incorpora- 

 tion appears elsewhere in this issue, has taken over the plant and 

 equipment of the Standard Tire & Rubber Co. of Guelph, On- 

 tario, on a five-year lease, with option of purchase at any time 

 before its termination. The head office of the Partridge com- 

 pany has been moved to Guelph and orders taxing the full 

 capacity of the plant have already been secured. The output con- 

 sists of high-grade tires, tubes, and druggists' sundries. 



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

 gun the erection of a boiler plant, 125 by 300 feet, which will 

 include, besides the boiler house, a railroad trestle, coal crusher, 

 automatic conveyors and feeders, with other auxiliary apparatus. 

 The first installation will consist of five 760-horse-power boilers 

 The building will provide steam and hot water for manufactur- 

 ing purposes throughout the 20 buildings of the company, and 

 the cost of the entire project will be over $200,000. 



Charles F. U. Kelly, president of the Kelly-Field Co., 

 the selling corporation for the Lee Tire & Rubber Co., of 

 Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, has sold his entire interests to 

 Harry E. Field, who has been vice-president and treasurer, 

 and who now becomes president of the company. The busi- 

 ness will be continued unchanged except that even closer 

 relations with the factory will be established and a consider- 

 able addition made to the selling forces to care for the 

 increased production that is planned for the coming year. 

 Mr. Kelly has not yet announced his future plans. 



The East Palestine Rubber Co., East Palestine, Ohio, has 

 increased its capital from $500,000 to $1,000,000. 



The Connecticut Mills Co. is building a 400-foot, four- 

 story addition to its weaving mill at Danielson, which will 

 make the mill 850 feet in length. A model village is also 

 being erected, and around the mill proper is an exceptionally 

 fine park with e-xtensive lawns, shaded drives and beautiful 

 gardens. The spinning plant of this company is at Taunton, 

 Massachusetts. R. J. Caldwell Co., Inc., 15 Park Row, New York 

 City, is the selling agent. 



The Standard Tire & Rubber Manufacturing Co., with 

 offices in Cleveland, Ohio, and factory at Willoughby, Ohio, 

 has completed material additions in floor space and equip- 

 ment to take care of increased production. About six months 

 ago this company was producing 50 tires a day, but this output 

 has been increased to 200 a day, and the present expansion has 

 been made in order at least to double that capacity. 



The Standard Four Tire Co., Keokuk, Iowa, has increased 

 its capital stock from $240,000 to $340,000, $300,000 being pre- 

 ferred and $40,000 common stock. 



The Sheldon Tire Co., Buffalo, New York, notice of whose 

 incorporation appears elsewhere in this issue, was organized to 

 succeed the Quality Tire Co., which is the agency for Hood 

 tires in western New York. 



The Hydraulic Press Manufacturing Co.. Mount Gilead, 

 Ohio, has recently received an order for 70 hydraulic vulcan- 

 izing presses of 115-ton rating from the Goodyear Tire & 



Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. .-Ml of the presses are of one 

 design and will be operated from the hydraulic pump and 

 accumulator systems already installed. 



The Crown Tire & Rubber Co., recently incorporated for 

 $250,000, will locate in Omaha, Nebraska, and will specialize 

 in Crown Cord tires for automobiles and motorcycles. Other 

 lines of rubber goods will also be made. The company is 

 said to have acquired five acres of ground for the projected 

 plant, which will comprise six large factory buildings, when 

 completed. 



The Luck Tire & Rubber Co. is a new enterprise expected 

 to locate in Hillsdale, Michigan. It is stated that C. J. Davis, 

 of the National Tire & Rubber Co., East Palestine, Ohio, 

 will be manager of the new plant. 



In support of their statement that Dann Inserts between 

 the leaves of automobile springs will promote appreciably 

 the life of automobile tires, the Poehlmann Automobile Sup- 

 ply Co., Baltimore, Marylarrd, offers to add 1,500 miles to 

 the mileage guaranty offered by the tire manufacturer. To 

 obtain the benefit of this arrangement, the automobile owner 

 has only to register with the Poehlmann Co. any new tires 

 which , he places on a car equipped with the inserts. 



The -^jcljraw Tire & Rubber Co., East Palestine, Ohio, 

 recently turned out 5,324 tires in one day. It is expected 

 that with tfie- installation of certain machinery this figure will 

 soon be greatly exceeded. 



Work has been resumed on the Pearce Tire & Rubber 

 Co., Ashtabula, Ohio. It is stated that Cleveland capital has 

 recently become interested in the project. , 



The Good-Wear Tire Co., which seemed likely to locate in 

 Lorain, Ohio, has decided to operate in Elyria, Ohio, and 

 to that end has purchased a factory in that city. 



The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. contemplates a branch 

 house in Wichita, Kansas. 



The Germantown Pennsylvania factory of the Pearce-.'Xrrow 

 Tire & Rubber Manufacturing Co. is turning out a pneumatic 

 tire with a claimed mileage capacity test of 10,000 to 12,000 

 miles. This company puts out the Pearce "custom-made" 

 4,200-mile guaranty tire. 



The Boone Tire & Rubber Co. will locate at Sycamore, 

 Illinois. The company is expected to be in operation in 

 February. 



The V. K. Sturgis factory, at Oakland, California, has 

 taken the operating name of the National Rubber Co. It is 

 said this company will employ 100 men. 



The Achilles Rubber & Tire Co., notice of whose incorpora- 

 tion appears elsewhere in this issue, has recently purchased 

 a factory site in Binghamton, New York. The company pur- 

 poses to manufacture tires. 



The Knight Tire & Rubber Co., Canton, Ohio, has been 

 absorbed by the Fabricord Tire Co., which is being formed 

 for the purpose of welding into one great organization sev- 

 eral rubber manufacturing units. N. W. McLeod, of St. 

 Louis, Missouri, is president of the Fabricord company, and 

 particular attention will be devoted to the production of cord 

 tires under the McLeod patents. It is said that capitalists of 

 New York, Chicago and St. Louis are interested. 



THE BIG FOUR TIRE Sc RUBBER CO. 



The present factory at Berea. Ohio, of the Big Four Tire & 

 Rubber Co., notice of whose incorporation appears elsewhere 

 in this issue, has 18,000 feet of floor space and is situated on a 

 5i/2-acre tract of land. 



The company is now selecting a site in Cleveland, Ohio, for a 

 new factory, and in the near future will erect there a concrete 

 building 400 feet long by 80 feet wide, three stories and base- 

 ment. While tires will be the main output, a general line of 

 rubber products will also be manufactured. 



