Arizona republican., 1918-06-02
F|RESTONE STEEL PRODUCTS C0. NEW .
 AKRONCORPORAT|ON

With the incorporation of the Fire stone Steel Products company, Fire stone Park. Akron. Ohio, the rubber capital of the world also appears in the public eye as a steel manufactur- ing center of a great importance to the automobile industry.
 The new company of which H. s. Firestone, its founder, has been elected president, comes into exist ence as the largest producer of de- mountable rims in the world. It has absorbed complete the interests of the Firestone rim plant which alone did s4,OO0.00O business last year supply ing demountable rims to 132 car man. ufacturers out of a possible 1S4, and making 50 to 60 per cent of the solid truck tire rims used in America.
 Men closely associated with the de- velopment of the demountable rim in | America regard the formation of the | new company as a logical result of | MT. Ffrestone's leadership, beginning | in the pioneer days of rim manufac- ture and continuing through his sue cessful exposure of the Perlman rim | patent fraud before Judge Hand ill | the United States district court at | New York in June, 1917.
 Frestone Congratulated Telegrams and letters of eongratu- lations to Mir. Firestone from leaders | in the automobile world at that time showed how universal was the inter est and how keen the pleasure of the l motor car industry in the successful | outcome of this case. The result was to free the industry from an unjust patent monopoly which had attempted to exact royalties from the Firestone company as it had from the other three rim manufacturers operating at that time. l Way back in the early days of tire making, the need of a demountable | rim to relieve the motorist of most | of the hardships attending a change of tires on the road had been recog- nized by Mir. Ffrestone. The first American demountable rim to attract public attention was the Firestone rim appearing on the winning car in an automobile race at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, in the fall of | 1907. This was a wedge-on type of rim that established the wedged-on principle which underlies the con- | struction of the modern Firestone rim.
 Much Missionary Work
 Before demountable rims were gen orally adopted, however, much mis- sionary work was done by the Fire stone organization in stirring up in terest on the subject, both among the public and the automobile trade in general. When it was seen that the demountable rim would become a big factor in popularizing the automobile, thus lending an added impetus to the growth of the motor car industry, a aI Gt Q m part of car manufacturers for de- mountable rims.
 This popular demand may be said to have started during the years 1911 and 1912. Though first appearing on the more expensive cars. demountable rims soon became regular equipment on cars of lower price.
 The stock in the new company is held for the Firestone Tire & Rub Der company with the exception of the directors qualifying shares. The stockholders of the tire company will, therefore, benefit from the growth of the newly formed steel products com pany.
 Same Old Officers
 The officers of the new company are the same as those of the Fire stone Tire and Rubber company, with llt SAItRtiOl oA o. N'' oNoiAi' "bO pN-
 comes vice president and factory manager. A full list of the officers follows
 H. $. Firestone, president; R. J. F'irestone, vice president; A. c. Mill Ter. vice president; J. G. Swain, vice president and factory manager; $. G. Carkhuff, secretary; J. G. Robertson, II treasurer.
 MT. Firestone states that in addi- tion to the further development of the standard Firestone rim, the newly formed Firestone Steel Products con- pany is expanding it's business to in- clude the manufacturer of other metal accessories for automobile wheels and - tires.