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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June 1, 1915. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Turner, Vaughn & Taylor Co.. of Cuyahoga Falls. Ohio, 

 has just turned ou.t a large number of 150-ton presses for solid 



tire v 



The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., of Akron, Ohio, is add- 

 ing a second storj to the building at Wood and Broad streets, 

 idelphia, which is being occupied bj its branch in that 

 . ii\ as a si ilid tire shop. 



The Xenia Rubber Manufacturing t o., ol Xenia, ' ihio, has 

 increased its manufacturing facilities as well as its lines of 

 production by the purchase of the entire assets of the Spring- 

 field Tire & Rubber Co. and the Springfield Elastic Tread 



o., both of Springfield, Ohio. The equipment included in 

 this purchase is to be moved into a new factory at Xenia. 



The People's Rubber Co. has decided upon the removal of 

 its plant from Akron to Barberton, Ohio, where it will occupy 

 the old factory of the Summit Rubber Co., employing at the 

 start about 100 men. 



The Victor Rubber Co., of Springfield, Ohio, which re- 

 cently completed an addition to its plant, is soon to com- 

 mence work on another building. 30 x 108 feet. A mileage 

 capacity test is now being made of the new pneumatic tire 

 made by this concern. An automobile has been equipped 

 with a set of these tires and will be run 300 miles a day while 

 they last. 



The Gordon Rubber Co., ol Canton, Ohio, is considering 

 the increase oi its capital stock from $300,000 to $600,000, 

 ilu proceeds of the new issue being intended to provide funds 

 for needed additions. 



The Lavelle Rubber < o., which deals extensively in hose. 

 packing, mechanical rubber goods and mill supplies through- 

 out the Middle West, with headquarters at Chicago, has 

 moved from 231 Xorth Fifth avenue, where it has been so 

 long located, to 181 West Lake street. 



The McNaull Auto Tire Co., of Toledo, Ohio, is represented 

 in New England by branches at Hartford, Connecticut and 

 Providence. Rhode Island, in charge, respectively, of A. A. 

 Tuttle and James C. ( >'Donnald. 



At a recent meeting of stockholders of the Kelly-Spring- 

 field Tire Co., held at Jersey City, a resolution was passed 

 authorizing the establishment of a fund — to the amount of 

 10 per cent, of the yearly net profits in excess of $1.000.000 — 

 to be distributed among officers and employes of the com- 

 pany, according to a plan not yet decided upon. 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed -May 3 

 against the Mercury Rubber Co., of Brooklyn. Xew York. 

 This company, composed of Samuel and Morris Honeyman, 

 George Broches and Michael Mislig, was engaged in the 

 rubberizing of cloth, at 147 Forty-first street, Brooklyn. 



The Motor Tire Re-Construction Co., incorporated in March. 

 .i- mentioi ed oi ge 439 of our May issue, has moved its Xew 

 York office to 52 Yanderbilt avenue, and secured temporary 

 manufacturing accommodations at Mt. Vernon, Xew York. 



A company has been formed in Brooklyn. Xew York, to 

 carry on a general tire sale and repair business, known as 

 the Double-Life Tire Co., Inc. This company claims a proc- 

 ess on which patent is pending for converting two worn 

 tires into one "strong, durable shoe." Prices are quoted when 

 customer furnishes both casings or only one. 



The National Rubber Manufacturing Co.. of Long Island City, 

 Xew York, lias leased a factory at Harrison. Xew Jersey, I 

 operated as a rubber plant, with rubber horseshoe pads 



■ i dry. 



The San Francisco branch of the United States Rubber Co. 

 is reported to have recently brought about the arret of Russell 

 K. Smith, a dealer in automobile accessories, who, before the 

 grand jur -id to having influenced Harry L. Rogers. 



also of San Francisco, to steal automobile tires to the value of 

 $19,000 from tin United States company, where he was em- 



ployed. 1 he system via- a simple one, orders placed by Swift 

 lor a pair of tiro being filled with probablj live or six tires and 

 hilled at the price ordered. 



The Savagt lire Co., of San Diego, California, has received 

 authorization from the Stan Corporation Department to issue 

 ami sell bonds to the amount oi $500,000. These bonds, which 

 are to run from ten to twent) years, are to be marketed at a 

 price that will net the company 90 per cent of face value. The 

 proceeds are understood to be intended for the payment of out- 

 standing obligations on the pn ;enl plant and equipment, for the 

 construction of additions and the development of patents and 

 business. 



The sales convention oi the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. will 

 be held this year at San Francisco instead of at the Akron 

 factory. 



The United States Tire to. has established a distributing 

 1 'ranch at Erie. Pennsylvania, with store and warerooms at 29 

 West Eleventh street, from which salesmen will be sent out over 

 the surrounding territory. 



The secret of the noiseless street car. the invention of which 

 has recently been announced, is a perfected type of running gear, 

 duplex wheels, one revolving within the other and separated by 

 thick bands of rubber, supporting the trucks. 



WHERE RUBBER-ITE HOSE AND BELTING ARE MADE. 



Mere is a photographic view, in condensed form, of the factory 

 wluie "Rubber-ite" cotton hose and "Rubber-ite" belting are 

 made. It is the plant of the Mcllroy Belting & Hose Co., Ham- 

 mond, Indiana, which was founded by F. B. Mcllroy. 



Mr. Mcllroy has had over thirty years' experience in the manu- 

 facture of tire hose, and he naturally has confidence in his abil- 

 ity as a hose maker. He believes that his Rubher-ite cotton rub- 

 ber-lined lire hose cannot he surpassed It is made of carefully 

 selected cotton yarn and the lining is the highest grade Para 

 rubber, but its distinguishing feature lies in the fact that the cot- 

 ton is impregnated with a compound made from elaterite, which 

 i- a hydrocarbon sometimes called Mineral Rubber and which is 

 reduced to a fluid form by a special process invented by the Mc- 

 llroy company. Because of this elaterite impregnation the com- 

 pany feels warranted in stating that the hose is permanently pre- 



Plant of the McIlroy Belting & Hose Co. 



served from mildew and decay, that it will not absorb water and 

 thus become heavy and burdensome, that it i- protected from 

 chafing and that it is impervious to oils, which therefore cannot 

 penetrate the cotton and destroj the rubber 



I he same claims are made for the company's belting, which i> 

 folded and sewed in tin same manner as all stitched canvas belt- 

 ing, hut in which the cotton is thoroughly impregnated with 

 elaterite. which acts as a tiller and has the same preserving effect 

 as described above in the hos< 



Rubber-ite hose and belting have teen on the market for ten 

 years and have been highly praised by a great mail) people who 

 have given them the most thorougl t< .• ; n actual use. 



