August 1, 1919.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



655 



They will be of the triple-radius type permitting unlimited 

 speeds in the long straight aways. and allowing for averages 

 of better than 100 miles an hour. 



The B. F. Wade Tire & Rubber Co., Los Angeles, is now 

 manufacturing 400 blow-out shoes and 120 reliners a day at its 

 factory and plans to double these figures in a very short time. 



Fred S. Wilson, vice-president and Pacific Coast manager 

 of the Thermoid Rubber Co., Trenton, New Jersey, is back at 

 his office in Los Angeles after a serious illness of five months, 

 during which he transacted most of his business from his bed- 

 side. He plans a visit to the factory during August and will take 

 with him several of his coast representatives. 



The Portland Rubber Mills. Portland, Oregon, are building 

 a new concrete factory, 200 by 75 feet, to cost approximately 

 $100,000. Mechanical rubber goods, heels and soles are the lines 

 in which the concern is expanding. It also does a jobbing busi- 

 ness in mechanical rubber goods and leather belting. A branch 

 store is operated in Seattle. The officers are H. C. Huntington, 

 president and manager ; M. E. Reed, secretary and treasurer ; 

 Henry L. Corbett, E. B. MacNaughton and C. E. McCulloch, 

 directors. 



The Universal Tire Filler Co., Portland, Oregon, has found 

 it necessary to increase its manufacturing facilities. A new 

 plant for manufacturing fillers has recently been started in 

 Vancouver, British Columbia. The installing station of the 

 Universal Tire Filler Co. at Seattle, Washington, has been pur- 

 chased outright by a syndicate of business men in that city and 

 the Seattle force, with G. M. Fife as manager, will take charge 

 of the company's operations at Vancouver. 



The company will soon begin operations in the Middle West, 

 probably locating at Indianapolis, Indiana. Frank A. Hager, 

 general manager, G. W. German, local manager, and G. H. 

 Gossett, superintendent, will supervise the erection of the plant, 

 which will supply the Middle West and eastern trade. 



C. B. Clarke has been appointed retail distributer of United 

 States tires and products in Portland, Oregon, succeeding C. 

 E. Hamilton. For the past four years Mr. Clarke has been 

 superintendent of the Portland Gas & Coke Co.'s garage. 



Joseph G. Howell and Martin F. Swift of the Pacific Tire & 

 Rubber Co., Portland, Oregon, will handle the Canton cord, 

 and Blackstone fabric tires for that territory. Fred Hawley, one 

 of the best known tire salesmen of Portland has joined the 

 organization. 



The Washington Tire & Rubber Co., Spokane, Washington, 

 manufacturer of "Evergreen" tires and tubes, is making a tire 

 of solid black tread and side-wall construction in millimeter 

 sizes, with an extra ply of fabric. It also contemplates under- 

 taking the reclaiming of rubber in the near future. Spokane 

 is fast developing as a rubber manufacturing center of the 

 Northwest, in addition to being the location of branch organ- 

 izations of several of the large eastern rubber manufacturers. 

 The Washington Tire & Rubber Co. expects to increase its 

 facilities to take care of its share of western business. The 

 officers of the company are : A. G. Hanauer, president ; H. S. 

 Burdick, treasurer; R. C. Babbitt, sales director; and E. E. 

 Harding, manager of production. 



Harry Schwartz, for eleven years with Charles T. Wilson Co., 

 Inc., New York City, crude rubber importer, resigned in Feb- 

 ruary last and has started in business as a crude rubber broker 



at 131 Grand Trunk Dock, Seattle, Washington. A specialty 

 is made of serving Pacific Coast manufacturers m a buying 

 capacity, as well as inspecting crude rubber qualities for some 

 of the leading eastern importers and manufacturers. 



THERMOID'S PACIFIC COAST MANAGER. 



PRED S WU 



*■ of the Thermoid Rubber Co 



iated with the 



icc-president and Pacific Coast manager 

 Trenton, New Jersey, has been 

 Stokes interests for 25 years, having entered 

 the bicycle-tire department as an 

 apprentice and subsequently been 

 made foreman of it. After two 

 years there he was placed in 

 the sales department, traveling 

 through eastern New York and 

 Pennsylvania. Having served in 

 that capacity for a few years, he 

 u as then made advertising and 

 ^dk■s manager, which position he 

 held for some time. 



When the company decided to 

 rcaih out for Western business 

 .\Ii Wilson took Chicago and the 

 Middle West as his field of oper- 

 .itiims, and, having firmly estab- 

 h-,lied the business in that terri- 

 tur.v and become a leading factor 

 in the Middle Western trade, he 

 moved to the Coast, opening one 

 branch and then another as the Coast business developed. 



The Thermoid company now maintains branches at San Fran- 

 cisco and Seattle, which are under the personal direction of 

 Mr. Wilson. By having an officer of the company located on 

 the Coast it keeps its extensive trade in close touch with the 

 management. 



LONG-FIBER ASBESTOS FROM CALIFORNIA. 



The American Asbestos Products Co., San Francisco, Cali- 

 fornia, plans to erect a mill with a working capacity of 400 

 tons daily, twenty times its present output. Its asbestos-bearing 



Fred S. Wilsc 



Plant of the American Asbestos Products Co. 



property consists of 600 acres of land on the banks of the 

 Stanislaus River, 150 miles east of San Francisco, and it is 

 estimated to contain millions of tons of the mineral, which 

 runs high in quality, the fiber varying in length from one-half 

 to one inch, suitable for spinning, while the short fiber and 

 screenings are suitable for stucco, cement, and other purposes. 

 The officers of the company are J. A. Voorhees, president; J. N. 

 Morrison, vice-president; and Dr. F. P. Reed, secretary and 

 treasurer. 



