A survey of the trade in rubber manufactured goods

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Identifikator:: 1848834152

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-240944

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: A survey of the trade in rubber manufactured goods

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Office

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 119 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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116 agencies in over 30 different countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Fiji Islands, India, Burma, Federated Malay States, Straits Settlements, South Africa, Rhodesia, Kenya, British West Indies, Jamaica, British Guiana, British Honduras, Newfoundland and Great Britain, Its factories are at Toronto, and it produces a number of lines, including Rubber Footwear, Canvas Rubber Soled Footwear, Rubber Heels and Soles, Rubber Conveyor and Transmission Belting, Rubber Hose, Cotton Rubber Lined Hose, Rubber Packing, General Mechanical Rubber Goods, etc., Auto- mobile Tyres, Tubes, Accessories, ete. Capital Stock authorised: Preferred, £412,000; Common, £826,000. Total, £1,238,000. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Canada, Limitéd, Toronto. This Company was incorporated in Ontario, 30th March, 1927, as successor to a company of the same name incorporated in Ontario, 2nd December, 1919, which also was successor to a company of the same name incorporated in 1910 under the Dominion Companies Act, by interests connected with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, U.S.A. Through its affiliation with that concern, this Company has the benefits of patents, com- pounds, research departments, laboratories, etc. The company manufactures automobile tyres, both pneumatic and solid, also tyres for motor-trucks and motor-cycles. It also manufactures hose, belting, packing, tubes, plumbers’ supply, moulded goods, rubber heels and soles and other rubber products. The company has two plants—one in New Toronto having a floor space of 25.86 acrés and the other in Bowmanville having a floor space of about four acres. Both plants are of brick construction, and include Power Houses. All the power is purchased from the Hydro-Electric Power Commission. The company is the largest manufacturer of rubber goods in the Dominion of Canada, and employs 3,000 workpeople. In addition the company has branches in Halifax, St. John, Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, Hamilton, London, Fort William, Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver. In April, 1926, the Goodyear Cotton Co. of (Canada, Ltd., a subsidiary, acquired the business and assets of Canadian Manhasset Cotton Co. of Canada, Ltd., at St. Hyacinthe, Que. The Goodyear Cotton Co. of Canada, Ltd., manufactures cotton fabrics and cotton ducks used in the manufacture of tyres and rubber goods. The plant, with 20,000 spindles, is located on eight acres of land at St. Hyacinthe, Que., and has a floor space of 3.89 acres and employs 420 workpeople. } " All the common stock of Goodyear Cotton Co. of Canada, Ltd., is held by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Canada, Ltd. Gregory Tire and Rubber, 1926, Limited, Vancouver. Gregory Tire and Rubber, 1926, Litd., Port Coquitlam, B.C. This com- pany operated under a British Columbia Charter obtained in April, 1926, in succession to the Gregory Tire and Rubber Co., incorporated in 1919, with an authorised capital of £309,000. It is not affiliated with any United States organisation. The ownership and capital is entirely Canadian, the assets of thie original company having been purchased by a syndicate of Vancouver and New Westminster, men, to whom the new charter was granted. Since the reorganisation, the company has made excellent progress and has established. not only a broad distribution of its products in the domestic market, but has secured export markets in New Zealand, West Indies, British Honduras and the Fijis.

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