530 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June 1, \9\7. 



ican rubber industry, and several market departments, that de- 

 voted to manufactured rubber goods being an original conception. 



INDUSTRIAL NEWS SURVEY. 

 Busy men will welcome the "Industrial News Survey," now 

 being published weekly by the National Industrial Conference 

 Board, 15 Beacon street, Boston, Massachusetts, an organization 

 consisting of 16 trade associations of employers, including Tlie 

 Rubber Association of America, Inc. The news which every 

 executive in the industrial world wants to know is presented in 

 crisp, concise form and printed on several single leaflets, 514 by 

 8H inches, wire-stitched together. The regular subscription 

 price is $2 a year, but it may be procured by members through 

 The Rubber Association of America for $1 a year postpaid, which 

 barelv covers the cost of production and mailing. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



clearly but briefly, and at the end are views of the various fac- 

 tories of Pirelli & Co. in Italy and Spain, and on another page 

 some of the plants of the General Electric Co., Limited, in Eng- 

 land, both of which companies combine to form the Pirelli Gen- 

 eral Cable Works of Southampton and London, 

 * * * 



The Dunlop Tire & Rubber Goods Co., Limited, of Toronto, 

 is sending out an excellent catalog of its automobile tires and 

 sundries. This is generously illustrated with half-tones of the 

 tires, treads, tubes and sundries which have made the name of 

 Dunlop famous. Each article is pictured and described, and th*. 

 40-page booklet is a fine specimen of trade catalog printing. 



THE Link-Belt Co., Chicago, Illinois, is noted for the beauty 

 and usefulness of its various catalogs and trade publications. 

 Several attractive pamphlets recently received are: "Traveling 

 Water Screen for Condenser Intakes," "Increasing Profits by 

 Saving Expense in the Handling and Storing of Coal and 

 Ashes." "Some Modern Coal Tipples," "Blue Diamond Coal 

 Company's Tipple." Link-Belt and Sprocket Wheels for Saw- 

 mills," "Link-Belt Wagon and Truck Loaders," and "Cement 

 Mill Equipment." Each of these booklets carries a message of 

 interest to manufacturers and we understand that the company 

 will send copies of any or all of them to those who may write 

 to the concern requesting them. An elaborate work and a book 

 well worthy of being in every engineer's library is the "Link-Belt 

 Silent Chain Data Book No. 125." numbering 128 pages and 

 handsomely bound in imitation leather. It is profusely illustrated 

 and gives figures and tables of matters pertaining to the various 

 behs manufactured by this company, their requirements, horse 

 power, etc. The belts are fully described and pictured, directions 

 given for selecting, determining length of chain and for in- 

 stalling and starting. The tables of transmission of horse power 

 are particularly valuable. Tliis company has also published as a 

 hanger in the national colors, a portion of President Wilson's 

 proclamation in such large type that "he who runs may read." It 

 is a handsome and appropriate hanger for a business office. We 

 are informed that the company will send a copy of this to anyone 

 who may address a request to the Chicago plant. 



* * * 



The \\>stinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., of East 

 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has had printed in an attractive 16- 

 page pamphlet, under the title "A Plea for Defense of Human 

 Rights and Liberty," the memorable address of President Wilson 

 before Congress on April 2, 1917, in which he advised a dec- 

 laration of war against Germany. 



* * * 



A very highly colored and striking hanger issued by the Kansas 

 City Tire & Rubber Corp., Kansas City, Missouri, to advertise its 

 Bull tires, represents a formidable and ferocious bull charging 

 one of these tires which, however, shows no damage from the 

 onslaught. The hanger is one which would certainly attract 

 attention when placed in any garage or store which may be 

 favored with this brilliant advertisement. 



* * * 



The Pirelli General Cable Works, Limited, London, England, 

 has sent out a handsome booklet describing and picturing the 

 new Southampton works of that company. The 28 pages of fine 

 coated paper contain many excellent half-tones of the works, one 

 showing the main buildings in a group on the waterfront, while 

 other pictures show details of the several buildings and interior 

 views of the various departments. All of these are described 



A TRAVELING EDUCATIONAL DISPLAY. 



The Kaufman Rubber Co., Kitchener, Ontario, is now 

 maintaining a unique window display service. Trunks are 

 fitted with all of the equipment for dressing a window, in- 

 cluding crude rubber and rubbers in the different stages of 

 manufacture. This trunk is sent out to the retailer for his 

 use and when through he repacks and returns it to the 

 nearest branch. The trunks contain besides crude rubber, 

 strips of soling, the various pieces, and all materials used in 

 the process of making tennis shoes and rubbers. The com- 

 pany has found that merchants appreciate this service and 

 use it to good advantage. 



RUBBER TRADE INQUIRIES. 



'I 'HE inquiries that follow have already been answered; never- 

 ■* thelcss they are of interest not only in showing the needs 

 of the trade, but because of the possibility that additional in- 

 formation may be fiirnislied by those who read them. The editor 

 is therefore glad to have those interested communicate ■unth him. 



[294.] A correspondent is in the market for a 6 by 12-inch 

 experimental mixing mill. 



[295.] An inquiry has been received for names of concerns 

 manufacturing hard-rubber-lined iron pipe and fittings. 



[296.] Names of manufacturers of machines for cutting eye- 

 lets in outside blow-out patches are requested. 



[297.] Information is sought concerning the sort of wire 

 cloth used in straining latex in the Far East. 



[298,] The address of the selling agents of Ocotillo gum is 

 desired, 



[299.] Names and addresses of manufacturers of rotary 

 rubber scrap cutters have been requested. 



TRADE OPPORTUNITIES FROM CONSULAR REPORTS, 



.\ merchant in France is in the market for gold stylographic 

 and fountain pens. Report No. 24,298. 



\n agency for the sale of rubber is desired by a company in 

 Sumatra. Report No. 24,388. 



A firm in India wishes to secure an agency for the sale of rub- 

 ber goods and rubber tires for carriages and motor cars. Report 

 No. 24,408. 



An applicant in the Straits Settlements desires to purchase 

 bare fabric automobile tires, without the rubber tread. Report 

 No, 24.427. 



A firm in England is in the market for india rubber buttons 

 for use in making garters. Report No. 24,504. 



A man in Brazil wishes to purchase three or four 12-screw 

 rubber diving suits. Report No. 24,530. 



Rubber wheels and other rubber goods are desired by an ap- 

 plicant in France. Report No. 24,535. 



Tlie Norwalk Tire & Rubber Co., Norwalk, Connecticut, adver- 

 tises its tires in Los Angeles, California, by a unique method. 

 A trained goose parades the streets of the city, garbed in suit- 

 ablv labeled attire. 



