Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-11
STANDARD DETACHABLE
RIMS ARE FOUGHT FOR
Companies Turn Patents Over to
Holding Corporations

Instead of being dissolved as the re-
suit of the Indifference exhibited to-
ward it by the tire committee of the
Association of Licensed Automobile
Manufacturers, the project for a STAN
dard type of quick detachable rim, as
evolved by compromise on the part OF
six big tire companies has taken a
new lease of life and is to be pushed
with vigor. Tangible evidence to this
effect Is afforded in the official an
nouncements made last week over the
names of the companies that have as.
signed their rim patents to the United
Rim company, the patent holding cor
poration created for the purpose.
As previously indicated i'm the Motor
World the plan for a standardized type
of quick detachable rim has been maxi
ing difficult progress for the past two
years. but those who have championed
1t are now convinced that it has
reached a point where 1t may be put
squarely before the trade and the pub
lie. The companies who are pledged
to the cause and who have turned over
their rival and conflicting patents to
the United Rim company, I'm order that
the later may authorize a composite
type containing the best features pre-
viously found separately include the
Diamond Rubber company, Akron, o.;
G.. and J. Tire company, Indianapolis,
Ind. Goodyear Tire and Rubber COM
pany, Akron, o.; B. F. Goodrich COM
pany, Akron. o.; Hartford Rubber
Works company, Hartford, Conn, and
Morgan & Wright. Detroit, Mich.
When the United Rim company made
it's initial attempt to create standard
type which would be acceptable from
all standpoints it encountered trouble
with the rim manufacturing concerns
who were approached on the matter of
taking out a license to manufacture.
The rim makers baked at being con-
fined to just one type, which they must
needs be under the terms of the license
offered them. The United Rim COM
pany then agreed to license them for
two standard types, provided they
would give up the manufacture of all
competing rims. These two standard
types, as promulgated by the United
Rim company. were described and il
lustrated in the Motor World for the
issue of December 2S and were desig-
mated as types No. l and No. 2. LII
censes for their manufacture were
taken by the Standard Welding COM
pany of Cleveland, Ohio and the West
oE-Mott company of Flint. Mich, with
the understanding that the tire COM
panies themselves would retire from
rim manufacture.
Later dash of cold water was
thrown on the whole thing by the atti
tude of the tire committee of the A. l..
A. M, which refused to take any
definite steps toward pledging support
for the standardized rim idea or to
recommend it to the membership of
the association. With renewed cour-
age however the standard rim is again
taken up and is to be carried to the
ultimate of whatever possibilities are
i'm store FOR If The No . rim is the
type which is to be made the leader,
although the rim manufacturers who
have taken out a license may make the
No. l type also If they find reason to
do so. The tire companies who have
created the United Rim company will
themselves cease the manufacture and
sale of rims on the first of next July,
and will use their combined efforts to
make the car manufacturers and the
public see the advantage of the stand
ardized type, as produced by the Ii
cenSed rim makers.