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	Search results for Firestone Park (Akron, Ohio) > Rubber > 1941-04-03    Refine your search Creator Unknown (6) Type Black-and-white Photog... (6) results 1-6 of 6 item(s)  page 1 of 1 : ( <<  1  >> ) :: previous : next select all : clear all : add to favorites   Image: Title: Subject: Description: 1. John W. Thomas and Harvey S. Firestone Jr. stand and display what is used in making a tire Firestone Tire and Rubber Company; Tire industry; Tires; Rubber; Rubber industry; Firestone, Harvey S., 1898-1973 John W. Thomas, president, (right) and Harvey S. Firestone Jr., vice president, of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company stand inside a 36.00-40 tire and show the materials needed to make a tire in 1941.... 2. Bales of crude rubber at Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Firestone Tire and Rubber Company; Rubber; Rubber industry; Employees; Warehouses "Crude rubber is received in bales, boxed or wrapped with burlap, weighing 250 pounds each. It is stored in warehoused at the manufacturing plant. Here is shown the Firestone rubber warehouse at its Akron... 3. Tire coming out of a jacket mold at Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Firestone Tire and Rubber Company; Tire industry; Tires; Rubber; Rubber industry; Machinery A worker pulls out a tire from a jacket mold at the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio in 1941. 4. Cord fabric after being gum dipped at Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Firestone Tire and Rubber Company; Rubber; Rubber industry; Machinery "The cord fabric in wide strips, after being dipped in pure liquid rubber, a patented Firestone process known as Gum Dipping, is passed between rolls on huge machines known as calendars. Here the gum dipped... 5. Worker works at a machine to make tire tubes at Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Firestone Tire and Rubber Company; Rubber; Rubber industry; Tire industry; Tires; Machinery "Automobile tubes are built by extruding specially compounded rubber through a die which gives them definite dimensions and makes them seamless." -- photo caption. 6. Machine making a truck tire at the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Firestone Tire and Rubber Company; Tires; Tire industry; Rubber; Rubber industry; Machinery "Here one of the large truck and bus tires coming from the building room is being placed under a shaping machine. The air bag which will go inside this tire can be seen hanging from the top of the press.... select all : clear all : add to favorites results 1-6 of 6 item(s)  page 1 of 1 : ( <<  1  >> ) :: previous : next
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