December 1, 1916.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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KELLY-SPRINGFIELD PLANS FOR CUMBERLAND PLANT. 



The future location of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co.. in Cum- 

 berland, Maryland, is now an established fact, a site for the new 

 plant having been acquired on a 74-acre tract of land. The 

 factory will be of four-story wing construction, thoroughly 

 modern in every respect, facilities of the most approved sort 

 being provided both as to manufacture and welfare of workers. 



.\ $500,000 bond issue, voted by the city of Cumberland, pro- 

 vides for necessary civic improvements in the section where the 

 plant is to be located. The Kelly-Springlield company in turn 

 agrees to erect a plant costing at least $1,500,000, and within 

 two years after it is in full operation to employ at least 3,000 

 persons. Within one year after full completion of the Cum- 

 berland factory, the Kelly-Springlield company will discontinue 

 all other plants and concentrate its entire manufacturing business 

 in Cumberland. 



A CHANGE OF NAME. 



At a Stockholders" meeting of the Vail Rubber Co., Novem- 

 ber 2, the name of the corporation was changed to Ehman 

 Tire & Rubber Co. The Ehman company will continue to 

 manufacture and sell pneumatic tires for automobiles and 

 accessories to the tire lines, also mechanical rubber goods. 

 Considerable additional equipinent is now being installed to 

 take care of rapidly increasing demands. 



GORDON TIRE PROGRESS. 



The new storehouse and shipping room now under con- 

 struction for the Gordon Tire & Rubber Co., Canton, Ohio, 

 will relieve 6.000 square feet of space in the mill room, there- 

 by increasing efficiency and output considerably. 



Several changes in the personnel of the operating-depart- 

 ment also indicate the rapid expansion of the business. C. W. 

 McKone, chief chemist of the Ajax Rubber Co., Trenton, New 

 Jersey, will hereafter be mill room superintendent. E. R. Neu- 

 bauer, of the Star Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has been appointed 

 manager of sales of the druggists' sundries department, and E. 

 R. Palmer, of the American Tire & Rubber Co., Mansfield, Ohio, 

 has assumed the duties of chief of the cost department. 



HYDRAULIC PRESS MANUFACTURING CO. EXPANDS. 



The increased demand for their hydraulic presses, pumps, 

 valves, accumulators and intensifiers, has led to the completion 

 of plans for extensive plant and equipment improvements in the 

 factory of the Hydraulic Press Manufacturing Co., Mount 

 Gilead, Ohio, builder of vulcanizing presses. To relieve the 

 crowded condition of the machine shop an addition 100 feet long 

 by 60 feet wide will be erected and considerable new tnachine 

 shop equipment will be needed, including a 20-ton electric travel- 

 ing crane, a large motor-driven horizontal boring mill and a 

 heavy-duty motor-driven planer. 



A 20-foot extension will be added to the present power plant 

 building and new equipment will be installed, consisting of a 

 300-horse-power Corliss engine and a 225-K-W generator. Two 

 new steam boilers and stokers for three boilers will be added to 

 the present boiler equipment. A building for oil storage vvill 

 also be erected, the main stock ■ room will be extended and 

 another story added, giving additional space for the storage of 

 small parts ; the tool room will be enlarged and a new structural 

 shop about 50 by 60 feet erected. 



The plans also include an extension of the present erecting 

 shop building, measuring 47 by 130 feet. For all of the building 

 extensions brick and concrete construction with steel for the 

 substructure will be used. All of the above irhprovements, ex- 

 cept the last named, will be made immediately. 



SAVAGE TIRES IN MICHIGAN. 



The Savage Tire Corporation, of San Diego, California, has 

 recently opened a Michigan office under the name of the Michi- 

 gan Savage Tire Sales Co., with S. E. Straight as branch man- 

 ager, and headquarters at 429 Grand avenue, Detroit. A $200,000 

 slock is carried, and will be increased as needed. Seventy sub- 

 branches have already been opened in various parts of the city- 

 and state. 



NEW CLUBHOUSE FOR McGRAW EMPLOYES. 



A recent campaign among employes of The McGraw Tire 

 & Rubber Co., East Palestine. Ohio, to raise funds for a 

 clubhouse resulted in subscriptions amounting to nearly 

 $2,000. The company has now appropriated $10,000 addi- 

 tional as its donation, and plans have been prepared for the 

 erection of the clubhouse on East Taggart street. The build- 

 ing will be two stories high in the front portion, the dimen- 

 sions being 50 by 110 feet, exclusive of verandas. Every 

 possible provision for the comfort and enjoyment of the em- 

 ployes will be made, including four bowling alleys in the 

 basement, four or five pool tables, one billiard table, a barber 

 shop, toilets, lockers and 15 or 20 baths, the latter being 

 placed conveniently at the foot of a stairway leading from 

 the gymnasium, 50 by 70 feet, at the rear of the main floor. 

 This gymnasium will have a balcony around three sides. At 

 the front, on the main floor, will be a large lounge, with a 

 six-foot open fireplace, a library and music room, a cloak 

 room, and committee room. The second floor of the front 

 portion of the building will be devoted entirely to a well- 

 equipped kitchen and dining room for use on special occa- 

 sions. 



Replete with information for rubber manufacturers. — Mr. 

 Pearson's "Crude Ruljber and Compounding Ingredients." 



RACINE AUTO-TIRE CO. TO BUILD. 



The Racine Auto-Tire Co.. Racine, Wisconsin, has re- 

 cently purchased a four-acre tract of land, known as the 

 W''isconsin-IIlinois baseball park, on which a modern plant 

 will be erected in the spring. The new plant will have a 

 capacity of 1,000 tires per day and will be built so that this 

 may be greatly increased by adding to the units. Machinery 

 has already been ordered from the Parrel Foundry & Machine 

 Co., and electrical equipment from the Westinghouse Electric 

 & Manufacturing Co. 



The Racine company is running its present plant night and 

 day. to its full capacity of approximately 250 tires and tubes 

 per day. 



THE TWIN RIM. 



It is rather a clever idea that is embodied in this new and 

 practical first aid device for tire troubles and which is really a 

 modified form of a spare wheel. It comprises a rim of the 



ordinary demountable type to 

 which are riveted four lugs 

 that are provided with slots 

 fur the fastening bolts. These 

 are four specially formed 

 clamps that fit over the inside 

 of the felly and slip into the 

 slots of the rim lugs. In case 

 of a puncture ,or blow-out in 

 cither front or rear wheel the 

 twin rim with the inflated tire 

 iqjon it is placed beside the 

 damaged tire, the clamps fitted 

 in place, and by tightenin,g the 

 four bolts with a special wrench 

 provided for that purjjose the car is ready to run any distance. 

 It is claimed that this complete device weighs only one-fifth that 

 of other demountable rims and can be attached in S minutes. 

 (Twin Rim Co., Boston, Massachusetts.] 



