. India rubber world. or is to be used as office, shipping depart-ment and salesroom. The basement is designed to be used en-tirely for storage of solid tires for motor vehicles, and there isalso a shop in the front end of the basement equipped with ahydraulic press and other apparatus for applying Goodricli wire-less solid truck tires. The second and third floors will be usedfor the stocking of pneumatic tires. The building is triangularin shape, three stories high, of brick construction, and waserected specially for occupancy by the Goodrich company. * ♦ ♦ The joint standing committee on fir
. India rubber world. or is to be used as office, shipping depart-ment and salesroom. The basement is designed to be used en-tirely for storage of solid tires for motor vehicles, and there isalso a shop in the front end of the basement equipped with ahydraulic press and other apparatus for applying Goodricli wire-less solid truck tires. The second and third floors will be usedfor the stocking of pneumatic tires. The building is triangularin shape, three stories high, of brick construction, and waserected specially for occupancy by the Goodrich company. * ♦ ♦ The joint standing committee on fire department of the CityCouncil of Woonsocket has awarded a contract for feet offire hose to theUnited & Globe Rub-ber ManufacturingCos., of Jersey, whichbid 60 cents perfoot. The contract tofurnish the fire de-partment of FallRiver with 2,500 feetof 2]^z and 3-inchhose has beenawarded by theboard of fire com-missioners to thesame concern, whichwas the lowest ofseven bidders. THE RUBBER TRADE IN TRENTON. By Our Rc:j,uhir NEW RUBBER F.\ Dclion Tire & Rubber new factory at Trenton is^ rapidly ncaring completion. This company owns threeacres, located on the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad,with excellent switching facilities. The Trenton trolley runs infront of the factory, affording easy access to and from the main building is 285 feet long and 75 feet wide, with twostories, containing a total of 42,750 square feet of floor construction is of a modern substantial factory type, whichis necessary to support tlie heavy rubber machinery. The build-ing is of red brick, with large windows, which admit the amount of daylight. Unobstructed floor space and con-venient elevators are provided to assist in efficient plant man-agement. The Birmingham Iron Foundry, of Derby, Connecticut,is installing the washers, mixers, calenders and heaters. Themolds and patterns are of the wrapped tread
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