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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



Sons, Limited, Clayton, Manchester, and M. H. MacKusick, 

 managing director, The Rubber Regenerating Co., Limited,, 

 Trafford Park, Manchester. 



Sir Francis Watts, head of the Imperial Department of Agri- 

 culture for the West Indies, was in New York City recently en 

 route for England. 



E. A. Andersen, president and general manager of the Rub- 

 ber Regenerating Co., of Naugatuck, Connecticut, while in New 

 York City recently, entertained O. Shaw, Thomas H. Hewlett 

 and M- H. MacKusick, friends from England. 



ALDENS' SUCCESSORS, INC., SUCCEEDS AMERICAN BRANCH OF 

 ALDENS' SUCCESSORS, LIMITED. 



Aldens' Successors, Inc., 260 Broadway, New York City, im- 

 porter and dealer in crude rubber and other general merchandise, 

 was formed June 23, with the following officers : Thomas A. 

 Maguire, president and treasurer ; Alvah H. Brown, vice-president 

 and assistant treasurer; M. A. Howser, secretary. Directors: 

 Thomas A. Maguire, Alvah H. Brown, John Cone, Edwin T. Rice 

 and John French. This firm succeeds to the American business 

 of Aldens' Successors, Limited, of London, England. 



WESTON JOINS AJAX RUBBER CO. 



Announcement is made by the Ajax Rubber Co., Inc., New 

 York City, of the appointment of Joseph C. Weston as vice- 

 president and director of that company. 



For a number of years Mr. Weston has been vice-president 

 and director of sales of the United States Tire Co. His resig- 

 nation from this position is effective July 1, 1919. Mr. Weston's 

 career in the rubber trade has been one of steady and well- 

 merited advancement covering a period of over 20 years. 



SHUGART UNITED STATES TIRE SALES MANAGER. 



Within less than a year from his promotion to the post of 

 general branch sales manager of the United States Tire Co., 

 New York City, George S. Shugart has been advanced to the 

 position of general sales manager. In this position Mr. Shugart 

 succeeds Joseph C. Weston, who resigned to make an important 

 connection with the Ajax Rubber Co. 



It is particularly interesting to note that Mr. Shugert's advance- 

 ment is another example of the policy of the United States 

 Tire Co. to fill vacancies in its high places from the ranks of its 

 own workers. 



A NEW FRENCH-AMERICAN BANKING HOUSE. 



Hereafter, through the recently organized French-.^merican 

 Banking Corporation, American business men will be able to 

 avail themselves of banking facilities in France as advantageous 

 as Frenchmen themselves enjoy. This alliance to promote trade 

 between France and the United States is capitalized at $2,000,- 

 000, with a surplus of $500,000, all paid in, and represents com- 

 bined resources of over $1,250,000,000. Half the stock of the 

 corporation is held by the Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris, 

 while the other half is shared equally by the First National 

 Bank of Boston and the National Bank of Commerce in New 

 York. 



The corporation will engage in the acceptance business and 

 generally assist in financing trade between the United States 

 and France, including French colonies in all parts of the 

 world. The First National Bank of Boston has a branch in 

 Buenos Aires, while the Comptoir National d'Escompte de 

 Paris has, in addition to two hundred-odd offices throughout 

 France, branches in Spain, England, Belgium, Australia, New 

 Zealand and India, and is preparing to open further branches 

 in Alsace and Lorraine. These facilities will enable French 

 and American importers and exporters to secure the best of 

 terms and services in developing or extending their trade. 



The corporation has leased the ground floor at 65 William 

 street, corner of Cedar street. New York City. 



HORACE DE LISSER RETURNS. 



Li- 



ireetors of the .\jax Rubbei 

 was again elected president 



[lORACE De LlS.-iE 



AT A .MKETl.NC of the 

 Co., Inc., Horace 

 thereby succeeding II. 

 D. McClaren. 



Mr. De Lisser was 

 born in 1866, in King- 

 ston, Jamaica, where 

 his father was for 

 more than 20 years col- 

 lector of His Majesty's 

 pustonis, subsequently 

 moving to the United 

 States and entering the 

 cotton business. 



Horace De Lisser 

 was educated in the 

 elementary schools in 

 Jamaica and the public 

 schools of New York 

 City, and after gradua- 

 tion entered the cotton 

 goods business. In 

 1894 he conducted a 

 bicycle tire factory in 

 England, which was 

 later sold to a London 

 syndicate. In dispos- 

 ing of this business he 



agreed to remain out of the rubber business for five years, and 

 therefore took the United States agency for the Holbrook 

 Sauce Co. of London. 



At the expiration of the five-year agreement he identified him- 

 self with the International Tire & Rubber Co. of Milltown, 

 New Jersey, resigning in 1905 to establish the Ajax Standard 

 Rubber Co., of which the present Ajax Rubber Co., Inc., is the 

 outgrowth. With the exception of two periods of short dura- 

 tion, he has been president of the company since its formation, 

 and has retamed continuously the post of chairman of its board 

 of directors. At all times he has been the guiding spirit, and 

 under his leadership the company has made continuous progress. 



In 1910 he resigned the presidency to assume the vice-presi- 

 dency and management of sales of the United States Motor Co., 

 which position he resigned in 1912 to give again his whole 

 attention to the Ajax-Grieb Co., sailing for Europe in July to 

 study the situation of the tire business there. In August, that 

 year, he married, at Covent Garden, London, England, Miss 

 lone Maggard. 



During the Great War he was appointed to the "Business 

 Men's Stafif" of General Pershing, with the rank of major, to 

 direct the erection of factories behind the firing lines in France. 

 He was also chairman of the Liberty Loan Committee, repre- 

 senting tlie automobile and accessory trades, and was active in 

 floating the several bond issues. 



Besides being president and chairman of the board of direc- 

 tors of the Ajax Rubber Co., Inc., he is director and vice-presi- 

 dent of the Briscoe Motor Co., Jackson, Michigan ; vice- 

 president and director of the Broadway Association of New 

 York City ; treasurer of the Annual Orphans' Automobile Day 

 Association; member of the Executive Committee of the Tire 

 Division and chairman of the .Arbitration Committee of The 

 Rubber Association of America. 



He is an ardent yachtsman and a member of the Friars, 

 Lambs, Lotos, New York Athletic, Great Neck Country, Bank- 

 ers and Trafiic clubs of New York, as well as of high Masonic 

 bodies and Mecca Temple, A. A. O. N. Mystic Shrine. 



