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Show COHH CLAIMS LARGESTTIRE SALE Well-known Akron Company Com-pany Has Issued a Challenge Chal-lenge for a Showdown. Owing to the large output of the different dif-ferent tire factories of the country, a controversy is now going the rounds as to which concern has the largest output out-put or sells the most tires. The B. F, 1 Goodrich company has issued a challenge chal-lenge to all tire factories, which reads , as follows: i To any rubber,, or tire, manufacturing manufac-turing concern, which claims production pro-duction and sale of as many auto and truck tires combined (by any or fall of it-s United States factories) fac-tories) as were produced, and sold, by the Akron, O., factory of the B. F. Goodrich company during the latest fiscal vear of each, we ex-lend ex-lend this challenge. We will throw open our books and records of tire manufacture and sale to a fair and impartial audit, supervised by a committee of three to bo mutually agreed upon, providing the competing tire concern, or concerns, will do the same. We will abide by the result of that audit, and agree that all rubber rub-ber tire concerns who are parties there to, be free to publish the certified cer-tified findings of that audit, as to the comparative volume of each company 's combined auto and truck tire production and sale. We confine the audit to the production pro-duction and sale of auto and truck tires combined to those made in the American (U. S. A.) factories of each concern thus excluding our own foreign factory and the foreign factories of all competitors. Wo do this because volume of thee foreign factories cannot materially ma-terially help in lowering cost of production and selling of tires, as made by the American factories of each and because some American rubber concerns have no foreign factories. r We claim, and know, that the l Akron, Ohio, factory of the B. F. Goodrich company makes and sells I more auto and truck tires cora-I cora-I bined than any other rubber fac-1 fac-1 tory in America (U. A.), or any rubber company which operates five or more tire and rubber factories fac-tories in the United States. We extend this open challenge to all doubters and all time advertisers, adver-tisers, who should now either justify jus-tify their claims for largest ' volume vol-ume by accepting this fair challenge, chal-lenge, or cease making such misleading mis-leading claims. (Signed) "THE B. F. GOODRICH CO. |