September 1, 1917.) 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



737 



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PEAECE ARROW TIRE COMPANY CHANGES ITS NAME. 



a meeting held on August 20 the stockholders of the 



Pearce Arrow Tire & Rubber Manufacturing Co. voted to change 

 the name to Pearce Rubber Corporation and to increase the capi- 

 tal stock to $1,000,000. The company now has ample working 

 capital, in addition to paying for new machinery and equipment 

 for its new factory, which will have a capacity of 1,000 tires per 

 day. 



TRADE NOTES. 



The frequently recurring rumor, with ever-varying details, 

 that the Ford Motor Co., Detroit, Michigan, is to manufacture 

 tires for Ford cars remains without foundation in fact. The 

 extensive building operations now in progress in the River 

 Rouge district led to the belief that a separate tire making 

 company was to be organized to conduct this enterprise on a. 

 separate basis, but The India Rubber World is advised that 

 the Ford company does not contemplate increasing the size of 

 its rubber department at the present time. Serious considera- 

 tion has not been given to this matter, due to the enormous 

 expansion of other departments with which the company is 

 more familiar. However, experiments with tires and molded 

 goods still continue and a limited quantity is turned out daily. 



The Aero Cushion Tire Co., San Jose, California, has come 

 under new management and is turning out tires to the full ca- 

 pacity of the plant. The new officers and directors are as fol- 

 lows : B. A. Herrington, president ; A. P. Marston, vice-presi- 

 dent; E. L. Sherbondy, superintendent; W. P. Wholheter, secre- 

 tary; J. J. O'Shannessy, general sales agent. 



Mention has previously been made in The India Rubber World 

 of the complaints of several rubber companies against unfair 

 railroad freight classification. The hearing in three of these 

 cases assigned for September 22 at Akron, Ohio, has been post- 

 poned by the Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, 

 D. C, to a date to be hereafter fixed. The companies concerned 

 are as follows : The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. The Akron, 

 Canton & Youngstown Railway Co. et at; Kelly-Springfield 

 Tire Co. v. The Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railway Co. et 

 al, and The Batavia Rubber Co. v. Erie Railroad Co. ct al. 



The Consumers Service Tire & Equipment Co., Fulton, Illinois, 

 incorporated under the laws of South Dakota, November 21, 1916, 

 with a capital stock of $5,000,000, has changed its name to Lin- 

 coln Highway Tire Co. 



The Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, an- 

 nounces the opening of a new branch and service station at 212- 

 14 S. Pinckney street, Madison, Wisconsin, on or about Sep- 

 tember 1. 



The Osborne Engineering Co., of Cleveland, Ohio, has planned 

 a factory for The Ideal Tire & Rubber Co., to be located at 

 Warren Road, Cleveland, on a 7S-acre tract. The plant will 

 have three stories and basement and it is reported will cost 

 $150,000. 



It is estimated now that the Mid-Continent Tire Manufactur- 

 ing Co., Wichita, Kansas, will commence operation on September 

 10. Three Akron, Ohio, rubber men — W. E. Greer, R. E. Riley 

 and B. L. Pontius — are to have charge, respectively, of the fac- 

 tory management, mill room and tube department. 



The Johnstone Tire Co., of La Porte, Indiana, will manufac- 

 ture a semi-solid tire adapted for delivery wagons. The tire, 

 which is the invention of Samuel Johnstone, for whom the com- 

 pany has been named, carries a 10,000-mile guarantee. 



The Sterling Tire Corp., Rutherford, New Jersey, which suc- 

 ceeded the Rutherford Rubber Co. last March, held its semi- 

 annual convention of managers and salesmen on July 27 and 28, 

 a feature of the occasion being the presentation of medals and 

 prizes to members of the force for their accomplishments dur- 

 ing the first six months of the year. 



THE NEW FACTORY OF XUCKEH MILLS, INC. 



Such rapid progress has been made by Tucker Mills, Inc., 

 Baltimore, Maryland, that the company has moved into new 

 and larger quarters. The accompanying illustration shows the 

 first plant, now outgrown. This business was started with stx^ 

 looms in April, 1916, as the Monumental Manufacturing Co., andJ 

 was incorporated under the laws of Maryland in April, 1917;- 

 as Tucker Mills, Inc. Carded peeler fabric for cord tire COfi- 

 struction has been the exclusive product, and so great has been 

 the demand that, with the new facilities and machinery to be in 

 operation in October, the output will be increased to 15,000 

 pounds weekly. 



The officers of the company are : E. D. Hewins, president, 

 Boston, Massachusetts ; J. E. Tucker, vice-president and general 

 manager, Baltimore, Maryland ; Albert A. Blakeney, treasurer, 



Baltimore, Maryland. All are men of long experience in the cot- 

 ton duck and tire fabric trade. The product of the mill is sold 

 through E. D. Hewins, 72 Lincoln street, Boston, Massachusetts. 



OHIO RUBBER SHIPPERS ORGANIZE. 



The Northwestern Ohio Rubber Shippers' Association has 

 been formed to enable those firms engaged in shipping crude 

 rubber and rubber products in the Akron territory to act jointly 

 in handling the traffic problems that are continually arising and 

 in which all have a common interest. It is also hoped that this 

 association will furnish a convenient medium of cooperating 

 with the railroads in effecting changes and improvements in. 

 traffic conditions. 



The present Akron members include The B. F. Goodrich Co., 

 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., The Goodyear Tire & Rubber 

 Co., The Miller Rubber Co., and General Tire & Rubber Co. 

 Other members are the Portage Rubber Co., Barberton, Ohio; 

 McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., East Palestine, Ohio; Marathon 

 Tire Co., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; The Republic Rubber Co., 

 Youngstown, Ohio. 



The officers are as follows: F. C. Van Cleef, president; E. C. 

 Knox, vice-president; E. L. Tragesser, treasurer; executive com- 

 mittee, R. G. Kreitler, chairman, E. L. Morgan, H. S. Bryant,. 

 E. C. Knox, E. L. Tragesser, A. C. Redman, L. H. Ley, W. D.. 

 Morris. 



