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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



I September 1, 1915. 



MECHANICAL RUBBER CO. OF CLEVELAND. 



During the past three years the extensive plant of the Me- 

 dian; i Co., of Cleveland, has been effectually modern- 

 ized under the factory management of A. T. Hopkins. Re- 

 arrai: if the power plant and new installations have re- 



1 in a notable saving. The druggists' sundry and specialty 

 lines of the United States Rubber Co. are concentrated at this 



ry, where there exists specifications for a practically un- 

 limited list of specialties, in addition to the usual standard vari- 

 ety of mechanicals. The factory management wisely fosters con- 

 sideration of the human element and finds great satisfaction in 

 the generous response made to every effort in that direction. 

 rhej have an emergency room, in charge of a trained nurse; a 

 branch of the I Public Library and several tennis courts 



for the use of the employees; while here and there window 

 of bright flowers add a pleasant touch of color to a re- 

 markably orderly and attractive factory arrangement. 



THE HEWETT PLANT AT BUFFALO. 



The llewett Rubber Co., of Buffalo, New York, is rapidly in- 

 Stalling additional mills and calenders in its elaborate new fac- 

 tory extension. The entire plant is a model in fireproof con- 

 struction and arrangement. 



The plan and equipment of the plant mark a radical departure 



in rubber mill construction. Spaciousness and ample daylight 



illumination are a special feature of the Hewett factory. Each 



mill and calender is operated, by its independent motor, by 



!i i electric power. 



A 1,000 horse-power steam plant for heating and vulcanizing 

 occupies an elevated position, and above it are suspended steel 

 coal pockets holding 500 tons of fuel, descending by gravity and 

 fed to the furnaces by mechanical stokers. The office building 

 contains a series of laboratories for physical and chemical testing 

 which are equipped with every facility in the matter of apparatus 

 and supplies. 



BAKELITE PATENTS DECLARED VALID. 



Judge Thomas I. Chatfield, in the United States District 

 Court, Eastern District of New York, on June 12, 1915, ren- 

 dered decision that three patents of tin General Bakelite Co. 

 arc valid and have been infringed by the George J. Nicholas 

 * o . of Chicago. 



FORD MOTOR CO. TO MANUFACTURE TIRES. 



It is currently reported, through authentic sources, that the 

 Ford -Motor Co. is experimentally studying the subject of 

 tire construction. Ultimately a tire plant with an annual 

 capacity for 2.000.000 tires, will be part of the new manufac- 

 turing center to be built by the Ford company. The site is 

 at Oakwood, West Detroit. Mr. Ford is quoted as having 

 said: "Within fifteen months the automobile tractor plant 

 will he well under way. The five-dollar-per-day scale of wages 

 now operating so successfully at our Highland Park factory will 

 i ended to those working in the new West Detroit plants." 



THE NATIONAL RUBBER CO. MOVING TO WILLIAMSBURG. 



I In National Rubber Co., now operating a factory at Potts- 

 town, Pennsylvania, has commenced work on a new plant at 

 \\ illiamsburg, in the same state, a ten-acre tract having recently 

 been purchased for this purpose. A railway siding to the prop- 

 with abundant water supply and free power, are special 

 features of the new location. Present plans provide for a main 

 building 65 x 1,000 feet, with a power house 40 x 40 feet, a ma- 

 chine shop 65 \ 120 feet, and an office building 50 x 50 feet, all 

 one story high. As soon as building operations are completed 

 the machinery in the Pottstown plant will be moved to Williams- 

 burg, and considi i ble additional new machinery will also be re- 

 quired. In the new plant there will be no overhead belting or 

 shafting, all the machinery being independently driven by elec- 

 tricity. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Victor Rubber Co., of Springfield, Ohio, is erecting a 

 second tw< .-story building, 30 x 108 feet, practically duplicat 

 ing a newly completed addition to its plant. 



The Toledo-Ford Tire Co. plans to construct a new addi- 

 tion to its plant at Findlay, Ohio. It will be 50 x 130 feet 

 and four or more stories high. 



The Subers Fabric & Rubber Co., of Cleveland, Ohio, of which 

 L. -V Subers is president and general manager, is affiliated by 

 license agreement with The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.. to 

 manufacture under the Subers patents in the United States, Can- 

 ada and Mexico. For the past year air brake hose, made with 

 Subers fabric has been used with marked success on several 

 important trunk lines in the East. 



The Yoerg Tire & Rubber Co. has had plans prepared for .'in 

 $18,000 service station on Chestnut street, Holyoke, Masse hu- 

 setts. 



An offer made by the new McClurg Rubber Co. lor the prop- 

 erty of the S. & M. Tire & Rubber Co. at Coshocton, Ohio, has 

 been accepted and approved by the court, and an order issued to 

 the receiver to sell this property. Appraisers have fixed it-- value 

 at $66,171.25. 



The new plant of the Endurance Tire & Rubber Co. at New 

 Brunswick. New Jersey, i- now ready for occupancy. This com- 

 pany has been working, in its old plant, full force and to the 

 limit of capacity for some time past. 



The Standard Four Tire Co. is erecting a plant at Keokuk, 

 Iowa, to be equipped for the manufacture of tires, which it ex- 

 pects to have ready for operation about the first of December. 

 W. J. Richards will be superintendent of the new plant. The 

 officers of the company are: President, C. R. Joy; vice-presi- 

 dent, C. F. McFarland; secretary, A. L, Higbee ; treasurer. 

 A. E. French. 



A practical test recently made by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber 

 ( o. of Akron, Ohio, demonstrated that rapid driving and ex- 

 posure of tires to the sun on a hot day. increased the air pres- 

 sure four pounds over the initial pressure of 80 pounds. This 

 increase is insignificant as regards possible injury to the tires. 

 L'nder inflation, not over inflation, is the condition to guard 

 against. 



In pursuance of its plan for extension, mentioned on page 

 504 of our June issue, the Fisk Rubber Co. has awarded a con- 

 tract for the erection of a large modern brick and steel plant 

 at Oak and Grove streets. Chicopee Falls. Massachusetts; this 

 addition to cost $300,000. 



The Mishawaka Woolen Manufacturing Co., of Mishawaka, 

 Indiana, has revised its plan for an additional factory building 

 for the manufacture of rubber footwear, increasing the size to 

 100 x 235 feet, four stories high. 



The Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co.. of Boston, whose 

 fiscal year ends August 31, is reported to have made a new 

 record for gross sales during the late spring and early summer 

 months, and is expected to show a handsome net profit on the 

 year's business. 



The Electric Hose & Rubber Co., of Wilmington, Delaware, 

 is planning the erection of a new warehouse in that city. The 

 building contemplated is 248 x 31 feet, one story, of brick and 

 concrete. 



On January 1 next automobiles will replace the motorcycles 

 in use on 8,000 rural mail routes throughout the United State-. 

 A system is also being put into effect by which city delivery 

 by automobile is to be extended as rapidly as possible from 

 all large cities of the country to points within a radius of 25 

 miles. This will mean a considerable increase in the govern- 

 ment's tire purchases within the next year or so. 



