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Show BUM PLANT IS UPTO DATE American Rubber Products Company Has New High Grade Equipment. An announcement today of Interest to motorists and owners of motor vehicles Is that of the American Rubber Products company, which has recently completed equipment of its vulcanizing plant at 161 East Third South street and is now ready to handle all kinds of tire repair work. By the addition of the most modern and Improved vulcanizing mechanism, the plant, which has always been ranked as one of the best in the city, has-been brought to a high plane of efficiency and made capable of caring for an immense volume of business. The plant was originally the Fisk vulcanizing vul-canizing concern and at the time -of its establishment was equipped with the most efficient vulcanizing machinery known. Since that time, however, the industry has made great strides and many new machines, ma-chines, calculated to save labor and time and improve tile output of vulcanizers and the quality, of the work, have been Invented. In-vented. The best of these have been included in-cluded in the new equipment. Trie American Rubber Products company's com-pany's plant is under the management of William La Fee, for ten years recognized as a leading tire authority in Salt Lake. Mr. La Kee recently added to his wide practical experience in tires by serving in France as a tire expert with the aviation section of the American expeditionary forces. Before coming to Salt Lake about ten years ago Mr. La Fee served as a factory fac-tory expert at Akron, Ohio, the center of the automobile tire industry. One of the principal equipment features of the plant is the new eight-inch mould for the gigantic pneumatic tires, now almost al-most unfversally used on the heavy motor trucks. This is the only mould of its sort in Salt Lake, and. according to Mr. La Fee. gives the owners of these large tires their first opportunity to have vulcanizing done at home. Tne American Rubber Products company's plant is also the service ser-vice station for Horseshoe tires and tubes and Fisk tires and tubes. |