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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1917. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Charles A. Be Saw, president, and P. P. Parker, general sales 

 manager, of the Be Saw Tire & Rubber Co., have opened tem- 

 porary offices in the Whittington Hotel, Ardmore, Oklahoma, 

 near (he site selected for the new tire factory, contracts for 

 which have been let. 



Tlie Ideal Tire & Rubber Co., Cleveland, Ohio, has secured 

 a plot of about 15 acres, in that city, with a good water front 

 and adjoining two railroads. A factory will be erected large 

 enough to turn out 500 casings and 800 tubes per day. The 

 contract for this building has already been awarded. 



A conference of division managers of the Marathon Tire & 

 Rubber Co. was held the first week of July at the home office, 

 Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, to consider taking care of greatly in- 

 creased business and the national advertising campaign the com- 

 pany is about to launch. H. H. Replogle, manager of sales, 

 gave a dinner to the division managers in conference. The 

 spirit of an unmistakably live and energetic organization was 

 very evident. 



A factory for the Crown Tire & Rubber Co., Ralston, 

 Nebraska, is being erected, and it is expected that one floor 

 will be ready for use about August IS. Meanwhile, Crown Cord 

 tires and tubes are being made in a temporary plant. As the 

 business grows, enlargements are to be made to the new plant, 

 according to well defined plans already drawn which contem- 

 plate several wings. 



The Norwalk Tire & Rubber Co., Norwalk, Connecticut, by 

 leasing the Asli hat factory in South Norwalk, has made it 

 possible to more than double the production of Norwalk tires 

 without waiting for building operations. This arrangement, to- 

 gether with the large addition to the Norwalk plant, now in 

 course of construction, is expected to treble the output next 

 year. 



The Lee Tire & Rubber Corp., Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, 

 has developed a cord tire embodying its well-known puncture- 

 proof feature and arrangements are now being made to manu- 

 facture them largely for the 1918 output. John Kearns, general 

 manager, expresses the utmost confidence in cord construction 

 and is of the opinion that by 1919 tire manufacturers will be 

 making cord types of tires in greater quantities than the regular 

 fabric type. 



Eddie Lingenfelder and Fred C. Rounds are operating an 

 automobile accessories business under the name of Eddie Lingen- 

 felder Co., at 831-3 South Olive street, Los Angeles, California. 

 The store is a Goodyear Service station. 



The Cleveland Standard Tire & Rubber Co., notice of whose 

 incorporation appeared in the July issue of The India Rubber 

 World, acts as Southern California agent for the tires of the 

 Standard Tire & Rubber Co., of Willoughby, Ohio. The office 

 is located at Pico and Hill streets, Los Angeles, California, offi- 

 cers of the company being as follows: H. M. Lieb, president: 

 E. B. Conlee, vice-president and general manager ; E. Leon 

 Sprague, secretary. 



The Knight Tire & Rubber Co., Dallas, Texas, has removed 

 to new quarters on Commerce Street. 



The Giant Tire & Sales Co., Rochester, New York, expects to 

 have its new Giant tire on the market within the next few 

 months. The company was incorporated in April for $10,000. 



The Perfection Rubber Works, Stamford, Connecticut, has taken 

 a five years' lease of a three-story factory building on Garden 

 street, and will commence manufacturing as soon as the neces- 

 sary machinery can be installed. 



The Boone Tire & Rubber Co., Sycamore, Illinois, has 

 awarded the contract for the erection of the first unit of a third 

 plant to be located at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, to cost about 

 $125,000 complete. Work is already under way and it is hoped 

 to get the plant into operation on August IS or September 1. 

 The building will be 100 by 200 feet, one and two stories. Elec- 



tric motors aggregating more than 300 horse power are to be in- 

 stalled. The main plant of the company is located at Sycamore, 

 Illinois, and a second plant at Des Moines, Iowa. 



NEW PORTAGE RUBBER CO. BRANCHES. 



B. J. Wildman, who has been made Pacific Coast manager for 

 the Portage Rubber Co., recently opened two direct branches 

 that will be operated under the name of the California Corp., 

 and are located at 855 Traction avenue, Los Angeles, California, 

 and 745 Mission street, San Francisco, California. 



The Portage Rubber Co. also operates direct branches at 

 Boston, Massachusetts ; New York City ; Philadelphia, Penn- 

 sylvania; Detroit, Michigan; Cleveland, Ohio; .\tlanta, Georgia; 

 Chicago, Illinois, and Des Moines, Iowa. 



John H. Diehl is no longer connected with the company and 

 his successor has not yet been appointed. 



KELLY-SPRINGFIELD CUMBERLAND PLANT IN PROGRESS. 



Final plans have been completed for the new Cumberland, 

 Maryland, plant of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., New York 

 City, which is now in process of erection at a cost of between 

 $4,000,000 and $5,000,000. The location was chosen as a result 

 of the tempting offer of the land, a bonus of $750,000 and ten 

 years' tax exemption. The new plant will employ between 3,000 

 and 5,000 persons at the start and will have a capacity at least 

 double that of the existing plants, including that acquired two 

 years ago at Wooster, Ohio, and that bought early this year at 

 BuiTalo, New York. 



The company has never attempted quantity production, but 

 the increasing demand for Kelly-Springfield tires has made this 

 important expansion necessary. Never in its history has the 

 company been so far behind on its orders. Gross and net are 

 both showing very large gains over the year to December 31, 

 when a balance of 39 per cent remained for the $4,907,000 com- 

 mon stock after preferred dividends had been deducted. It is 

 now paying 16 per cent, or $4 per share, and officials believe it 

 will earn very close to SO per cent this year. 



RACINE AUTO TIRE CO. 



The daily production of this firm at Racine, Wisconsin, is to 

 be raised to 7,500 Horseshoe tires and tubes by the erection of 

 new buildings and increase of the force to between 3,000 and 

 4,000 persons The new plant will occupy a plot 260 by 320 feet, 

 will be five stories high, and divided into units 60 feet wide with 

 courts 30 feet wide between sections. Reinforced concrete will 

 be used, and the latest machinery and electrical equipment will 

 be installed. 



This growing firm began business seven years ago with three 

 workmen and has practically trebled its output in each of the 

 past three years, sales up to June 1, of this year, being 20 per 

 cent greater than for the entire year 1916. For the past year 

 and a half the plant has been in operation day and night, turn- 

 ing out 500 tires and tubes daily for seven branches in the prin- 

 cipal cities of the Middle West. The factory is now 60 days 

 behind orders, and because of limited facilities has not been in 

 a position to take on new accounts for over a year. 



The officers of the company are L. J. Elliott, president ; C. H. 

 Wright, secretary and treasurer. 



WILL WHOLESALE ONLY. 



The Berrodin Rubber Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which 

 has been doing a wholesale and retail business in tires and 

 accessories at 713-715 Broad street for the past year, has dis- 

 continued its retail department, and will hereafter confine its 

 business exclusively to the wholesale end, catering to garages 

 and supply stores. 



