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Scrap balance cannon. Novel scale was constructed in Akron, Ohio by the Firestone Company in order to get across visually to the public that it takes a lot of scrap metal to provide the steel necessary to make a cannon. This scale actually works, and as the metal scrap was poured into the left-hand portion of the scale, it gradually balanced the one on the right

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. A cannon that saw duty in World War I stands in the yard of a Chicago steel mill, ready to be melted down and processed into a modern weapon for World War II

Scrapped cannon. Veterans of World War I, these cannons join the scrap heap to be reprocessed and recast into streamlined equipment that will be aimed once more at the enemy

Wrapping truck tires. All sizes of tires can be wrapped by this machinery, which has an opening just large enough for the tire to pass through. It throws a semi-circular catapult through the middle of the tire; the catapult carries the roll of paper with it, unwinding as it goes. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). This is a radial drill with index fixtures, for drilling and tapping holes in the 4,000 pound turret casting for the mounting plate of the 37 mm anti-aircraft gun of the Chrysler medium tank, the M-3. These twenty-eight ton steel monsters are being turned out in quantity by 10,000 workers at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit

Salvage. Scrap metal. The magnet loader of a large Southern junkyard operates continuously to keep our steel mills supplied with scrap metal needed to make the tools of war. Location: a large New Orleans yard

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). This turret casting for an M-3 tank weighs 4,000 pounds. The worker is completing one of the several milling operations necessary to insure perfect fit, for the gun which will fire from behind the turret must have freedom of movement. The tank itself, which might be termed an arsenal on tracks, weighs twenty-eight tons. It is now in mass production at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit

Gigantic scrap yard in the heart of Akron, Ohio, was the scene of great activity during intensive scrap metal drive. Everything from old cannons to abandoned automobiles and dismantled lamp posts were turned in in order to provide scrap metal for the sinews of war

Production. Tin smelting. A new furnace building under construction at a Southern tin smelter. Pure tin will be produced here from South American ore to meet the countless war needs of the United Nations. This smelting operation, the first of its magnitude in the United States, has already achieved a heavy output of the invaluable pure metal

Scrap balance cannon. Novel scale was constructed in Akron, Ohio by the Firestone Company in order to get across visually to the public that it takes a lot of scrap metal to provide the steel necessary to make a cannon. This scale actually works, and as the metal scrap was poured into the left-hand portion of the scale, it gradually balanced the one on the right

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01/01/1942
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Akron (Ohio) ,  41.08139, -81.51889
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label_outline Explore Balance, Firestone, Artillery Gun

Headed for last cleanup. Six giant truck tires, of the non-directional type are being wheeled in for cleaning and painting. This pattern, developed for the U.S. Army in 1941 is used for field equipment....gives excellent traction in forward or reverse because of the horizontal cleats, yet rides well on the highway on the continuous center rib. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Bulgaria -- Siege Artillery - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Wrapping the finished tire. Seeing is not necessarily believing. Even when you see the tire-wrapping machine in operation, it is difficult to understand how it works....spinning a strand of paper around a tire as fast as the operator can feed them in. All the operator need do is place the tire in position; the machine does the rest. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Chicago, Illinois. Locomotive lubrication chart in the laboratory of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. The laboratory assistant in foreground is working at a precision balance

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. In 1936 this family was on relief. With a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred and eighty dollars, they were able to purchase and install an irrigating pump for the vineyard, a team, and the balance gave them subsistence and operating expenses for the first grape season

Removing cured tube from mold. As the tire molds are all-automatic, so are the tube molds. This one has just opened; all the operator need do is remove the finished tube and put in another raw one. Note the seam marks in the mold itself, which leave their imprint on the tube. Thus a seamless tube may appear to have a collection of many sections. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Firestone Memorial model. View III

Harrison panic. He makes way with the Cleveland surplus. Changes the form of debt statement to show a balance. Bankrupts the treasury and brings on the panic. The responsibility fixed. Out of his own mouth he is condemned. [n. p. 1893?].

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

[Richmond, Virginia Captured siege guns at Rocketts]

Austrian battery in Galicia - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[The artillery exercises of the Osmaniye]

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