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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Februarv 1, 1917. 



TBADE NOTES. 



Some time ago the receivers of the Dreadnaught Tire & Rub- 

 ber Co., Baltimore, Maryland, brought suit against certain stocl<- 

 holders who had subscribed for stock and then failed to pay, 

 these unpaid subscriptions being listed among the assets of the 

 bankrupt company. The United States Court in Baltimore has 

 now given judgment against the subscribers, and sums varying 

 from $42 to $207 will have to be paid by 16 men, the only ones out 

 of a total of 108 who failed to settle with the receivers after being 

 sued, without waiting for the case to be tried. 



In addition to the companies mentioned last month, the Mc- 

 Graw Tire & Rubber Co., East Palestine, Ohio, and the Kelly- 

 Springfield Tire Co., Akron, Ohio, have filed complaints with 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission on freight classifications 

 for rubber tires on the Southern railroad lines. 



The New Tread Tire Co., Louisville, Kentucky, has changed 

 its name to International Rubber Sales Co. This company acts 

 as distributor for the International Rubber Half-Sole tires in 

 the State of Kentucky, southern Indiana and southern Illinois, 

 and is establishing agencies throughout this territory. 



A grand prize diploma has recently been awarded the Hendrie 

 Rubber Co., of Torrance, California, by the international exposi- 

 tion judges at San Diego, California. This is the more remark- 

 able in that the company started making tires only four years ago. 



The Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., New York City, has been 

 awarded damages to the amount of $376,000 for infringement of 

 the Grant patent on solid rubber tires, the internal wire carriage 

 tire used on the lighter horse-drawn vehicles. The defendants 

 were The B. F. Goodrich Co. and the Republic Rubber Co. 



The Globe Tire Co., capitalized at $1,000,000, will locate at 

 Laporte, Indiana, occupying the old H. B. Glover plant. The 

 company will make pneumatic tires. 



The Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Co., Dayton, Ohio, has 

 acquired several acres of land in the vicinity of the factory for 

 the purpose of e.xpanding its plant. It is reported that the com- 

 pany recently closed an order for $1,000,000 worth of tires. The 

 present officers are J. A. MacMillan, president; J. C. Hooven, 

 vice-president, and C. E. Hooven, secretary and treasurer. 



The General Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, recently opened 

 a branch at 1120 Michigan avenue, Chicago, Illinois. This is in 

 charge of C. B. Adair. "General" tires are in active request 

 and the company's daily output will shortly be increased to 800 

 tires. This company is also one of the most important producers 

 of automobile accessories. 



The Kelly-Field Co., New York City, formerly sales agent for 

 the Lee Tire & Rubber Co., Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, has 

 been purchased by the latter company from its owner, Harry 

 Field. Mr. Field, whose exceptional ability is well known, will 

 be retained in even closer connection with the Lee company, being 

 placed in general charge of sales as head of the department that 

 is to be organized to take the place of the Kelly-Field organi- 

 zation. 



The Scanlon Auto Supply Co.. Rochester, New York, now acts 

 as exclusive distributer of the .Amazon anti-blowout tire for the 

 Amazon Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, in the territory of 

 Rochester and five surrounding counties. 



Willard C. Campbell, Isaac C. Ames and Francis C. McCarty 

 have been licensed as commissioners to open books of subscrip- 

 tion to the capital stock of The Ames Tire Co. of Illinois, a 

 proposed corporation whose organization has not been completed. 

 This company will have a capitalization of $10,000, consisting of 

 100 shares of the par value of $100 each. 



At the recent annual meeting of the Ten Broeck Tyre Co., 

 Louisville, Kentucky, directors were elected as follows : H. L. 

 Lewman, Fred Haupt, W. C. Lewman and F. E. Trumper. The 

 board of directors elected the following officers : H. L. Lewman, 



president; Fred Haupt, vice-president; W. N. Cox, treasurer, 

 and W. C. Lewman, secretary and general manager. The report 

 showed that the company had doubled its business in 1916, and 

 considerable improvements and extensions were authorized. 



The Zee-Zee Rubber Co., Yardville, New Jersey, has increased 

 its capital stock from $400,000 to $1,000,000 to care for the 

 increased demand for Zee-Zee tires and tubes. The latest ad- 

 dition to the mill of this company is practically completed and 

 new machinery will shortly be installed, greatly adding to pro- 

 duction capacity. 



CLEVELAND ENGINEERS PLAN MANY RUBBER MILLS. 



W. C. Owen & Co., engineers, 1900 Euclid avenue, Cleveland, 

 Ohio, announce building operations for the following rubber 

 companies : 



Plans and specifications have been completed for a new rubber 

 factory for the A. L. A. Tire Co., Detroit, Michigan, which will 

 have a capacity of 400 tires per day. J. J. O'Shea, president, is 

 now receiving bids for the construction of the building, which 

 will be of reinforced concrete, fireproof, and completely equipped. 



Plans are being prepared for The Boone Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Sycamore, Illinois, to remodel the old plant of the Sycamore Tire 

 Co. An addition will also be made to the present building, 

 allowing for an immediate capacity of 300 tires per day and a 

 future capacity of 600 tires per day. Bids are now being received 

 on the equipment. 



Complete equipment will be installed for a 500-tire plant for 

 the International India Rubber Co., South Bend, Indiana, of 

 which George W. Odell is general manager. 



The new 300-tire plant of the Pearce Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Ashtabula, Ohio, is practically finished, and the Owen company, 

 which designed this building completely, is in the market for 

 equipment. 



The general contract for the first unit of the new plant of The 

 East Palestine Rubber Co. has been awarded to Walker & 

 Curley, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The building will be 60 by 

 450 feet, of brick and steel construction, and the entire plant, 

 when completed, will have a capacity of 300 tires per day. The 

 officers of this company are : Everett Lyon, president ; Abram 

 Hartley, secretary, and B. C. Tunison, treasurer. 



WHAT SIX TIRE SIZES HAVE DONE. 



Although about 50 stock size tires are now manufactured, an 

 interesting canvass recently made by the J. & D. Tire & Rubber 

 Co., Charlotte, North Carolina, shows that only six sizes sup- 

 plied 94 per cent of all cars built during the year 1916. These 

 were 30 by 3, 30 by 3J4, 32 by 3^^, 33 by 4, 34 by 4 and 36 by 4J4. 

 This indicates that the S. A. E. leadership toward a standardized 

 list of nine regular sizes, and an equal number of oversizes, was 

 a move in the right direction. It also indicates that automobile 

 manufacturers have caught the spirit of standardization to such 

 a degree as for the moment to have wrested the leadership from 

 their engineers, in this particular matter at least. The following 

 table, showing the percentage of use of the 15 sizes most com- 

 monly employed during the past year, is of genuine interest: 



Size. Per Cent. 



3 by 28 1.80 



3 by 30 24.12 



3'A by 30 29.15 



3H by 32 7.90 



4 by 32 25 



4 by 33 10.10 



4 by 34 20.01 



4 by 36 15 



4 ^J by 34 1.55 



4 "/J by 35 44 



4"^ by 36 3.34 



4-^ by 37 037 



5 by 36 075 



5 by 37 959 



5 by 38 007 



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