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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



CANADIAN NOTES. 



THE Ames Holden Tire Co., Limited, 1221 Mount Koyal Avenue 

 East, Montreal, Quebec, has been incorporated by letters 

 [latent of the Dominion of Canada to manufacture automobile 

 tires. The authorized capital is $3,000,000, of which $2,000,000 

 has been issued and fully paid up. The company will build its 

 plant at Kitchener, Ontario. The officers are Talmon H. Rieder, 

 president ; Hugo Wellein, treasurer, and S. J. LeHuray, secre- 

 tary. The directors include the above and D. Lome McGibbon, 

 Sir Herbert Ames, Major L. L. Anthes, Walter T. Barrie, J. C. 

 Breithaupt, Hon. Nathaniel Curry, Hon. C. P. Beaubien, K. C. ; 

 William Mulock, Jr.. Hon. Wallace Nesbitt, K. C, and Thomas 

 H. Lane. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. of Canada, Limited, Toronto, 

 Ontario, has under construction two additions to its pneumatic 

 tire plant, one 100 by 100 feet and the other 60 by 120 feet, both 

 four stories and basement. In addition, a large warehouse is 

 being built in Regina, Saskatchewan, on which work has just been 

 begun. It is expected that all these buildings will be completed 

 before the first of the year. 



The K. & S. Canadian Tire & Rubber Co., Limited, Toronto. 

 Ontario, manufacturer of molded rubber sundries, intends to 

 double the capacity of its plant and add dipped goods to the lines 

 now being manufactured. A new building will be put up for the 

 purpose. In addition, the company will erect a tire plant, 80 

 by 185 feet, three stories high, of fireproof construction. Both 

 buildings will be on the company's property at Weston, Ontario, 

 and machinery for equipping them will be purchased later. The 

 tire plant is planned for a capacity of 1,000 tires and 2.000 tubes 

 daily. 



OAK TIRE & RUBBER CO. ENLARGEMENT. 



The Oak Tire & Rubber Co., Toronto, Ontario, will consider- 

 siderably increase its output by the addi- 

 tion of new machinery. In the spring 

 it was turning out 1,200 inner tubes and 

 150 casings daily, but by this addition 

 will have a capacity of 250 casings. The 

 success of the enterprise, now only 

 about 20 months old, is due chiefly to 

 the energy of Frank D. Law, the manag- 

 ing director, who in nine months organ- 

 ized the company, secured the capital (in 

 war times, be it observed) of $400,000. 

 purchased and installed the machinery 

 and started production, closing the first 

 first year with a net profit of nver 

 $32,000. 

 The factory is under the supervision of Waller Smith, formerly 

 of Gutta Percha & Rubber, Ltd., Toronto, Canada. Walter Se- 

 ward, of the Dreadnaught Tire & Rubber Co., Baltimore, Mary- 

 land, is a director and as consulting superintendent visits the 

 factory at Oakville each month. 



A CANADIAN INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM. 



Connected with Laval University, Montreal, Canada, is a Fac- 

 ulty of Commerce, and as an annex to this is the Commercial 

 and Industrial Museum of Montreal which has for its object 

 imparting to Canadian merchants and manufacturers informa- 

 tion for the advancement of their business. The museum is 

 housed in an imposing building in which samples will be dis- 

 played of all the natural and manufactured products of the 

 world, and as far as possible, exhibits showing the different 

 stages of manufacture, modes of packing, etc., with labels giving 

 explanatory information. 



Commercial information concerning Canadian and foreign 

 markets is afforded exhibitors who will also have access to the 



commercial library. Exhibits are solicited from rubber manu- 

 facturers, both Canadian and foreign, for this permanent indus- 

 trial exposition, which is open to all visitors free of charge. 



Frank D. Law 



RUBBER GROWING TO BE SHOWN IN MOTION PICTURES. 



A motion piiiure clirunicle embracing all the details of the 

 growing and harvesting of rubber in Sumatra will be the object 

 of an expedition to be started soon by Harry Levey, manager 

 of the Industrial Department of the Universal Film Manufac- 

 turing Co., New York City, under the auspices of one of the 

 largest manufacturers of rubber products in the world. 



When completed this series of pictures will stand as the 

 first and only visualized and comprehensive survey of this end 

 of the rubber industry in existence. The film will be given a 

 nation-wide distribution as an educational feature. 



THE LESSON OF THE DIRIGIBLE DISASTEF 



The terrible accident to the Goodyear dirigible 

 Chicago, resulting from the fall of the whole blazing machine 

 into a bank building and the explosion of the fuel tank, the 

 whole catastrophe causing 12 deaths, grimly emphasizes as 

 nothing before has done the need of strict government super- 

 vision of aircraft and air transportation of all kinds. Complete 

 and unvarying safety has not yet been attained for any kind 

 of travel, but the hazards of aerial travel are the greatest 

 known and all reasonable means should be taken to minimize 

 them, and especially to safeguard the public on the ground be- 

 low. Nothing should ever be done to hamper or discourage the 

 fullest development .of the science of aerial navigation, for its 

 value in many directions has been fully demonstrated, but the 

 right kind of regulations need not do that. 



Already air pilots of every sort must be licensed, and thinking 

 persons agree that comprehensive Federal laws governing fly- 

 ing of all kinds are essential to the common good. Reasonable 

 laws would provide for intelligent supervision of both the per- 

 sons and vehicles engaged in aerial navigation ; would prohibit 

 flights over cities and prescribe flight altitudes over less popu- 

 lous districts ; would provide landing places for both airplanes 

 and dirigibles on the outskirts of large cities; and would pro- 

 hibit the use of aircraft for circus purposes to give thrills to the 

 public. 



There is also another point worthy of consideration. Strict 

 navigation laws prevent anarchy on the seas, and the time is 

 coming when similar laws will be needed to prevent it in the 



NEW JERSEY SAVOLD TIRE CO. 

 The New Jersey Savold Tire Co. has been formed to operate 

 in New Jersey under the Savold process for rebuilding used 

 automobile tires. L. R. Best is president; A. J. Davis, vice- 

 president, and R. K. Underbill, secretary and treasurer.. The 

 New Jersey plant is located at 235-249 Elizabeth street, Newark, 

 and has a daily capacity of 400 tires. The company is capitalized 

 at $2,000,000, par value $20 per share, under New Jersey laws. 

 Other Savold stations will be established in Atlantic City, 

 Trenton. Camden, Jersey City and other cities and the com- 

 pany will eventually have a daily capacity of 1,000 tires. 



OLD DENTAL RUBBER FOR IMITATION CORAL. 



New methods of salvaging and utilizing rubber scrap of every 

 kind are frequently coming to light, some on a large scale, others 

 of more interest than moment. As an instance of the latter 

 sort, a young man is working his way across the country and 

 making a neat living besides by buying discarded false teeth 

 from house to house. This itinerant buyer sorts out the plat- 

 inum pins — the chief prize — to be resold for platinum. Any gold 

 or silver is next broken ofJ, the false teeth being shattered to 

 release it. The plate itself, or dental gum. which remains is 

 sold as quantity warrants to the makers of imitation coral. 



