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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1919. 



The Woven Steel Hose & Rubber 

 molded air and water hose in long 1< 

 is general manager of the company. 



Cu., Trenton, is making 

 igths. Horace E. Tobin 



I. V. Jones, recently appointed superintendent of the Near- 

 para Rubber Co., Trenton, manufacturer of reclaimed rubber, 

 has been connected with the rubber-reclaiming business since 

 1904, and was one of the first to develop a process for reclaim- 

 ing auto tires. He was formerly master mechanic and chief 

 engineer of the United & Globe Rubber Co., and previously was 

 for a number of years factory manager for the Derby Rubber 

 Co. The Nearpara company's plant is being remodeled and 

 enlarged, and. when completed, will be a modern and up-to-date 

 factory. 



The John E. Thropp's Sons Co., Trenton, will build an addi- 

 tion of steel and brick, 63 by 320 feet, with 40-foot bay, covered 

 by a 10-ton traveling crane, and a gallery 23 feet wide across 

 one side and end. The cost is estimated at $75,000. This ex- 

 pansion has been made necessary because of the increased busi- 

 ness in the line of machines and mold equipment for manufac- 

 turing both automobile and truck tires. Some of the present 

 equipment will be used in the new building in order to improve 

 working conditions in the old. 



The firm of A. \V. Faher, Newark, New Jersey, by act of 

 Congress, has been passed to the ownership of .American inter- 



ests and will be known as A. W. Faber, Inc. Henry Fera, Jr., 

 will remain general manager, with the same business organiza- 

 tion. The company intends to maintain the high quality of its 

 products and improve them wherever possible. 



The Clark & Stebor Rubber Co., Inc., 709 Berkman street, 

 Plainfield, New Jersey, recently incorporated to manufacture 

 inner tubes, tire repair patches, etc., with a capital of $200,000, 

 has purchased the building at 332-334 Leland avenue for its 

 factory and expects to be in operation in about two months. 

 The officers are Lester P. Clark, president, and Anthony L. 

 Stebor, Jr., inventors and patentees of the C. & S. patch in 

 the United States, Canada, Great Britain and France, and W. 

 G. Crossley, secretary and 



B. Parsil, of Highland Park, Robert Montalvo, and Louis 

 Kosma, superintendent of the Eckrcde Rubber Co., of Newark, 

 are the interested parties. The company has leased temporary 

 quarters in the Landsberg building in New Brunswick and will 

 later erect a plant for manufacturing purposes. 



The members of the clerical force of the Lambertville Rub- 

 ber Co., Lambertville, New Jersey, held their annual outing re- 

 cently at that place. Following the banquet dancing was en- 

 joyed. 



The heavy rains caused damage to the Empire and Joseph 

 Stokes rubber mills, Trenton, during the latter part of July. 

 Both mills are situated along Assanpink Creek and the stream 

 became so high that the lower floors of the plants were flooded. 

 Work in portions of bolli mills was temporarily abandoned. 



The .Acorn Rubber Co., New Brunswick, New Jersey, has 

 been organized for the purpose of manufacturing high quality 

 sutomobile tubes and to engage in the vulcanizing business. R. 



PACIFIC COAST NOTES. 



By Our RcgiiJar Correspondent. 



THE OLDFiELD TIRE CO. of Los Angelcs has appointed 

 Hess & Sacket, Inc., local distributer of their product. 

 The Oldfield Company will still maintain its warehouse on Los 

 -Angeles street to serve the distributers in this and other coun- 

 ties of Southern California and Arizona. 



Grove Hill, one of the best known "road men" connected 

 with the motor tire business of Southern California, has been 

 added to the organization of the J. B. Wood Tire Co., dis- 

 tributer of Hewitt tires in Los Angeles. 



Tlie Sewell Cushion Wheel Co., Detroit, Michigan, is planning 

 to open Pacific Coast factory branches in Portland, Los Angeles 

 and San Francisco. 



F. A. Seiberling, president of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber 

 Co., Akron, Ohio, has arrived in Los Angeles to take the first 

 steps in building the Goodyear plant which is to be erected 

 at Ascot Park, just acquired for that purpose. 



Trinidad E. Lacayo, Nicaraguan Consul in Los Angeles, be- 

 ieves that the logical source of raw rubber for this district 

 is in Central America, particularly Nicaragua. "There are 

 thousands, yes, hundreds of thousands of acres of wild rubber 

 in Nicaragua, which should be gathered and brought to this 

 port," says Senor Lacayo. "In 1916 we exported 200,000 kilos 

 of rubber, worth $256,000, to the United States alone. Those 

 are the latest authentic figures I have, but the amount of 

 rubber now exported, I should say, is worth nearly $500,000 

 annually, and this is only a fraction of what we produce. 

 Nicaragua, the largest of the Central American republics, has 

 an area of nearly 50,000 square miles, and a population of only 

 800,000. American business men should send representatives 

 there, as they are doing in other South American countries, and 

 study conditions as they are." Senor Lacayo was native secre- 

 tary in the Philippines for Governors Taft, Wood and General 

 Funston, at the same time representing his country there. 



"Cliff" Durant, millionaire sportsman, motor car manufac- 

 turer and automobile racing champion, has announced that plans 

 have been completed for a speedway to be built in Los Angeles, 

 and a duplicate to be built in San Francisco. Two races yearly 

 are planned to be held at each course, and no purse less than 

 $15,000 will be offered. The Los Angeles and San Francisco 

 courses will be owned by the California Speedway Association, 

 which will be incorporated for $250,000. The local courses will 

 be a mile and a quarter with a minimum width of 70 feet. 



