Tire recapping. A recap job on a passenger car tire. The tire with a tread strip of reclaimed camelback rubber is put into a curing mold. The old tread surface had previously been ground down evenly and coated with rubber adhesive. The plan to recap passenger tires with reclaimed rubber camelback, approved by rubber director William M. Jeffers, was put into effect in February 1943 to reduce the demand for replacement tires and still keep civilian cars in service
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 32, frame 1214.
Tags
safety film negatives
lot 2062
alfred t palmer
united states office of war information
photo
tire
passenger car tire
recap passenger tires
replacement tires
camelback rubber
rubber camelback
rubber director william
office of war information
farm security administration
united states history
workers
library of congress
Date
01/01/1943
Location
united states
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain