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An old photo of a machine in a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

An old photo of a machine in a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Compa...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

Norwalk tire test - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Norwalk tire test - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tire testing machine, Bureau of Standards, 1/14/21

Tire testing machine, Bureau of Standards, 1/14/21

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Dog on spare tire of automobile, Washington, D.C.]

[Dog on spare tire of automobile, Washington, D.C.]

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro field worker. Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. He has just made himself shoes out of that old tire

Negro field worker. Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. He has jus...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Retiring a locomotive driver wheel, Shopton, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of gas until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in shape. Santa Fe R.R.

Retiring a locomotive driver wheel, Shopton, Iowa. The tire is heated ...

Mountaineer trying to change tire with a fence post as a jack. Up South fork of the Kentucky River. Breathitt County, Kentucky

Mountaineer trying to change tire with a fence post as a jack. Up Sout...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Barrage balloon manufacture. Glove for a gas bag. Fitting the outstretched fingers of a fabric patch to the side of a barrage balloon, this worker must be extremely careful to put the patch on smoothly. Any wrinkles might bind, pinch or chafe and cause leaks. Sewn and seamed inside this "glove" is a webbing of rope which will become part of the rigging which controls the giant balloon as it flies thousands of feet above cities, arsenals, or other bomber objectives. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Glove for a gas bag. Fitting the outstret...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barrage balloon manufacture. Getting supplies at the storehouse. This barrage balloon builder has come to the company's storehouse to obtain more reinforcing tape to fasten the seams of a barrage balloon. Small, but vital to production, every piece of material must pass over this counter and be recorded before issuance. The storekeeper is the only man who knows the secret formula for mixing the rubber cement combination which works most effectively in making air-tight seams. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Getting supplies at the storehouse. This ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aircraft tire manufacture. Wide range of tire sizes required for military aircraft is illustrated by this photograph. Tire at bottom is of type used on average medium bomber while small tires at top are for tail wheels of various types. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Aircraft tire manufacture. Wide range of tire sizes required for milit...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Army is an important user of tire chains. Each of the new halftrac scout cars being turned out in a large Midwest plant will carry tire chains as standard equipment. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

The Army is an important user of tire chains. Each of the new halftrac...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tire building. This tire builder starts the carcass by slipping a layer of fabric onto the tire drum. The layer is made with the seam cut on the bias so that there will be no straight-across strain on the tire seams. The layer fits tightly, and each successive layer is banded to the preceding one by applied pressure. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Tire building. This tire builder starts the carcass by slipping a laye...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Leaving this tire builder's hands, this finished carcass is rolled away to the vacuum expanding machines, or to storage until these machine operators are ready for it. Since the rubber throughout the carcass is not yet cured, the tire is still somewhat soft and squashy. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Leaving this tire builder's hands, this finished carcass is rolled awa...

Public domain photograph of sport activity, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aircraft tire manufacture. Workman packages airplane tires of type in common use on U.S. military fighter aircraft. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Aircraft tire manufacture. Workman packages airplane tires of type in ...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aircraft tire manufacture. Wide range of tire sizes required for military aircraft is illustrated by this photograph. Tire at bottom is of type used on average medium bomber while small tires at top are for tail wheels of various types. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Aircraft tire manufacture. Wide range of tire sizes required for milit...

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

Aircraft tire manufacture. Wide range of tire sizes required for military aircraft is illustrated by this photograph. Tire at bottom is of type used on average medium bomber while small tires at top are for tail wheels of various types. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Aircraft tire manufacture. Wide range of tire sizes required for milit...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Washington, D.C. Tire retreading shop

Washington, D.C. Tire retreading shop

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Tire registration took place in the school library, supervised by principal M.C. Demmy. At right is the town librarian, Mrs. Searle

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Tire registration took place in the school libra...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Giant tire manufacturer. Here a workman is drawing off steam from U.S. Army truck tires just removed from vulcanizing units at a large Eastern rubber plant. Once the steam is released from the air bags inside the tires, the tires will be moved on to the final inspection department before being shipped to the armed forces

Giant tire manufacturer. Here a workman is drawing off steam from U.S....

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. War housing trailers. Tires for war housing trailers do multiple duty. These 150 prize "shoes" have been returned from war housing areas after removal from trailers delivered from the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. They will be used in further deliveries of new trailers. Every tire is registered, and returns are checked against deliveries

Production. War housing trailers. Tires for war housing trailers do mu...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Aircraft. At the end of a Flying Fortress assembly line, this mechanic in a large Western plant makes a final check on a landing gear hydraulic system. That big round object in the foreground is a rubber tire. Remember?

Production. Aircraft. At the end of a Flying Fortress assembly line, t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Window of Recap Tire Corporation on Georgia Avenue

Washington, D.C. Window of Recap Tire Corporation on Georgia Avenue

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Good citizenship and plain common sense. This man is performing a duty every car owner owes to himself and to our fighting men. In having his car adjusted to prevent excessive tire wear--and in observing the simple rules that make tires last longer--he is making a valuable contribution to our war effort. The man who wastes rubber is a poor citizen and blind even to his own personal interests

Good citizenship and plain common sense. This man is performing a duty...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. A worker at a Southern wagon plant is shown here shaping a steel tire to be fitted on the felly, or outer wooden wheel rim, of the wagon wheel

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. A worker at a Southe...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York, New York. Mr. Fing, a Chinese-American merchant, and his wife in their Flatbush home. Notice the rubber tire ashtrays

New York, New York. Mr. Fing, a Chinese-American merchant, and his wif...

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tire recapping. A newly recapped passenger car tire to go back on the wheel. 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

Tire recapping. A newly recapped passenger car tire to go back on the ...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tire recapping. Removing a recapped passenger car tire from a curing mold. Before the curing process the tread surface had been ground down evenly and had a strip of reclaimed camelback rubber attached to it. The plan to recap passenger tires with 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

Tire recapping. Removing a recapped passenger car tire from a curing m...

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

Tire swing, near Litchfield, Connecticut

Tire swing, near Litchfield, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

D. S. Etheridge Automobile Showroom & Tire Store, 329 Market Street, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, TN

D. S. Etheridge Automobile Showroom & Tire Store, 329 Market Street, C...

Significance: The D.S. Etheridge Automobile Showroom and Tire Store was built 1924-25. It is a well preserved and excellent example of the best new architectural expression brought about by the popularity of ... More

Savage Tire Factory, Office Building, 2301 Main Street, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

Savage Tire Factory, Office Building, 2301 Main Street, San Diego, San...

Survey number: HAER CA-79-B Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1934 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: after 1989 Subsequent Work

Savage Tire Factory, Factory Building, 2301 Main Street, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

Savage Tire Factory, Factory Building, 2301 Main Street, San Diego, Sa...

Survey number: HAER CA-79-D Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1934 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: after 1989 Subsequent Work

Ha je seront ben content quand j'aurons tous ces papiers la - le tresor tiré des ténébres

Ha je seront ben content quand j'aurons tous ces papiers la - le treso...

Print shows a cleric, an aristocrat, and a member of the Third Estate who is pulling on a rope tied to a bundle of papers including the "Nouvelle Constitution" and "Vœux de la Nation" which are held aloft by a ... More

Early automobiles - Chamlee [fixing tire]

Early automobiles - Chamlee [fixing tire]

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Victory Tire Co. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Victory Tire Co. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Amalamated Tire store, front - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Amalamated Tire store, front - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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Lehman Tire shop - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Lehman Tire shop - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Lee Tire demonstration - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Lee Tire demonstration - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Winter scenes. Tire tracks in snow

Winter scenes. Tire tracks in snow

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Potash lorries burned on Jericho road. Great rubber tire of potash lorry still in full blaze when picture was taken on the following morning after attack on previous evening

Potash lorries burned on Jericho road. Great rubber tire of potash lor...

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Repairing tire on road near Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Repairing tire on road near Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississip...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Changing a tire at the United Producers and Consumers Cooperative service station. Phoenix, Arizona

Changing a tire at the United Producers and Consumers Cooperative serv...

Public domain photograph of 1930s cars, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tracks for scout cars and other Army vehicles go through a curing process in an Ohio tire plant. The hydraulic press in which this important operation is performed assures uniform cure under automatically regulated temperature. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

Tracks for scout cars and other Army vehicles go through a curing proc...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Rolling for Uncle Sam. Rolling away a finished tire, this tire company worker is proud of the job it will do, for it is a huge airplane bomber tire, of the kind used by Uncle Sam on his giant defenders. The tire will receive a few finishing touches before shipping, although it is ready for service as is. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Rolling for Uncle Sam. Rolling away a finished tire, this tire company...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

As the track for an Army halftrac develops to recognizable form on the "building wheel" of an Ohio tire plant, an important operation is performed by trained men. All rubber of the finished halftrac adheres firmly to steel bodies. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

As the track for an Army halftrac develops to recognizable form on the...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tire retreading. Ready to be processed for reuse. Here is a truckload of tires arriving at an Eastern plant for recapping

Tire retreading. Ready to be processed for reuse. Here is a truckload ...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel tire to the wagon wheel assembly in the plant of a Southern wagon company which is experiencing a business boom because of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel ti...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kearney, Nebraska. Farm boy with flat tire, which happened while he was bringing a load of scrap iron to town

Kearney, Nebraska. Farm boy with flat tire, which happened while he wa...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Tire with recap glued in place, ready to go in vulcanizing mould in tire retreading shop

Washington, D.C. Tire with recap glued in place, ready to go in vulcan...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

Joe Crow along U.S. Highway 29 in Georgia testing a tire by kicking it

Joe Crow along U.S. Highway 29 in Georgia testing a tire by kicking it

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

D. S. Etheridge Automobile Showroom & Tire Store, 329 Market Street, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, TN

D. S. Etheridge Automobile Showroom & Tire Store, 329 Market Street, C...

Significance: The D.S. Etheridge Automobile Showroom and Tire Store was built 1924-25. It is a well preserved and excellent example of the best new architectural expression brought about by the popularity of ... More

Lee Tire & Rubber Company, Plant, 1100 Hector Avenue, Conshohocken, Montgomery County, PA

Lee Tire & Rubber Company, Plant, 1100 Hector Avenue, Conshohocken, Mo...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Savage Tire Factory, Factory Building, 2301 Main Street, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

Savage Tire Factory, Factory Building, 2301 Main Street, San Diego, Sa...

Survey number: HAER CA-79-D Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1934 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: after 1989 Subsequent Work

Savage Tire Factory, Factory Building, 2301 Main Street, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

Savage Tire Factory, Factory Building, 2301 Main Street, San Diego, Sa...

Survey number: HAER CA-79-D Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1934 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: after 1989 Subsequent Work

Savage Tire Factory, Factory Building, 2301 Main Street, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

Savage Tire Factory, Factory Building, 2301 Main Street, San Diego, Sa...

Survey number: HAER CA-79-D Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1934 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: after 1989 Subsequent Work

Savage Tire Factory, Warehouse, 2201-2299 Main Street, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

Savage Tire Factory, Warehouse, 2201-2299 Main Street, San Diego, San ...

Survey number: HAER CA-79-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1934 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: after 1989 Subsequent Work

F.L. Lewton with auto tire fabric machine, museum, 7/22/25

F.L. Lewton with auto tire fabric machine, museum, 7/22/25

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a motorcycle. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lee Tire & Rubber Company, Water Tower, 1100 Hector Avenue, Conshohocken, Montgomery County, PA

Lee Tire & Rubber Company, Water Tower, 1100 Hector Avenue, Conshohock...

Survey number: HABS PA-6024-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Symbol of tire repair shop, Plentywood, Montana

Symbol of tire repair shop, Plentywood, Montana

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Discharged for union activites. Washington, D.C., March 18. Miss Zella Morgan, of Gadsen, Ala., told the Lafollette Civil Liberties Committee today how she was discharged from the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company's plant in Gadsen. Ala., because she was active in the local union, she was given an "honorable discharge" and two weeks extra pay, she said. Because four other girls in the plant not in her Department, declared they would not work in the organization with her

Discharged for union activites. Washington, D.C., March 18. Miss Zella...

A woman sitting in a chair reading a piece of paper. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old auto wheel and tire with front axle assemblies, near Abbeville, Louisiana, junkyard

Old auto wheel and tire with front axle assemblies, near Abbeville, Lo...

Public domain photograph of car crash, accident, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Day laborer pumping up tire on tractor on large farm near Ralls, Texas. Nine tractors were used on this farm of four thousand nine hundred acres

Day laborer pumping up tire on tractor on large farm near Ralls, Texas...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

World's Fair. Firestone Tire & Rubber Company Building at night I

World's Fair. Firestone Tire & Rubber Company Building at night I

The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held in New York City, United States in 1939-1940. The 1939-1940 World's Fair was themed "The World of Tomorrow" and featured pavilions and exhibit... More

Merchant changing tire on his truck, Penasco, New Mexico

Merchant changing tire on his truck, Penasco, New Mexico

Public domain image of a truck, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Inflating a new tire for installation on car of member of the United Producers and Consumers Cooperative. Phoenix, Arizona

Inflating a new tire for installation on car of member of the United P...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Adding tread rubber stock. When the fabric carcass has been built to the proper number of layers and cushion rubber has been added under the tread, the thick, extra tough tread rubber is added, having been molded to the proper shape by extrusion in a previous operation. Mechanical guides help this builder to put the tread on absolutely straight, so the tire will be in perfect balance. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Adding tread rubber stock. When the fabric carcass has been built to t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

One way to increase tire life--and to do your part in the saving of rubber for the forces of fighting to defend your right to drive in freedom over the roads of this democracy is to keep the pressure right. This driver isn't thinking of war, however, as he checks his tire pressure. He's just using common sense as he takes a few moments to make certain that costly carelessness will not rob him of tire mileage

One way to increase tire life--and to do your part in the saving of ru...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Barrage balloon manufacture. Birthplace for air-whales--gigantic barrage balloons which look like monster whales-of-the-air, made in this huge room. Four are seen here: left rear is a balloon being folded into the shipping container at the extreme rear; next to it is an inflated balloon on which final inspection and checking is now complete, and ready for deflation and packing; at the right is a completed balloon in the process of being inflated for inspection; in the foreground is an assembled balloon awaiting final fitting and inflation. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Birthplace for air-whales--gigantic barra...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Adding the bead wire. Taking a more solid form, the carcass is now ready for the addition of another bead before the final layers of fabric are added. The bead cover is shaped to the exact curvature of the tire, and fits its diameter perfectly. The bead is forced into position under pressure by the machine controlled with the worker's right hand. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Adding the bead wire. Taking a more solid form, the carcass is now rea...

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Giant tire manufacturer. Final inspection of the world's largest tire, the 36.00-40 earth mover, used in the construction of airports and new army camps. This huge tire stands nine and a half feet high, with tube and flap, weighs 3,646 pounds and carries 55,000 pounds. The giant mold in which it is vulcanized weighs 300,000 pounds and stands two and a half stories high when the cover is open. The top section of the mold which is raised and lowered to admit the tire, weighs sixteen tons. Large bullet- sealing gasoline and oil tanks are also being cured in this mold

Giant tire manufacturer. Final inspection of the world's largest tire,...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Giant tire manufacturer. Final inspection of the world's largest tire, the 36.00-40 earth mover, used in the construction of airports and new army camps. This huge tire stands nine and a half feet high, with tube and flap, weighs 3,646 pounds and carries 55,000 pounds. The giant mold in which it is vulcanized weighs 300,000 pounds and stands two and a half stories high when the cover is open. The top section of the mold which is raised and lowered to admit the tire, weighs sixteen tons. Large bullet- sealing gasoline and oil tanks are also being cured in this mold

Giant tire manufacturer. Final inspection of the world's largest tire,...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. But the company is worried about Don's transportation, too, and the transportation of thousands upon thousands of people in the same predicament. In the plant's sign shop, painters prepare eye-catching posters urging tire conservation

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. But the company is worried about Don's t...

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Giant tire manufacturer. A steady stream of large, rugged tires for Uncle Sam's fighting forces, like those above, is now in mass production at this large Eastern plant. Here workmen are shifting newly vulcanized tires to conveyor lines that will take them to final inspection department. They are then shipped to the fighting forces to help build the ever-increasing number of mobile and mechanized units in America's hard-striking war machine

Giant tire manufacturer. A steady stream of large, rugged tires for Un...

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Tire retreading. The final step in the recapping process is the trimming off and cleaning of the small, extruding particles of rubber and the painting of the tire

Tire retreading. The final step in the recapping process is the trimmi...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Montgomery County, Maryland. Tire of farmer's car

Montgomery County, Maryland. Tire of farmer's car

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Washington tire store. Buffing off old tread to make a smooth bed for recap

Washington, D.C. Washington tire store. Buffing off old tread to make ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico. George Turner changing a tire

Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico. George Turner changing a tir...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1930s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tire recapping. Recapping a worn passenger car tire. Reclaimed camelback rubber is applied after the old tread surface of the tire has 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

Tire recapping. Recapping a worn passenger car tire. Reclaimed camelba...

Public domain photograph of a machine part, motor, equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Truck drivers changing a tire along U.S. Highway 29 enroute to Charlotte, North Carolina

Truck drivers changing a tire along U.S. Highway 29 enroute to Charlot...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

D. S. Etheridge Automobile Showroom & Tire Store, 329 Market Street, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, TN

D. S. Etheridge Automobile Showroom & Tire Store, 329 Market Street, C...

Significance: The D.S. Etheridge Automobile Showroom and Tire Store was built 1924-25. It is a well preserved and excellent example of the best new architectural expression brought about by the popularity of ... More

Savage Tire Factory, Factory Building, 2301 Main Street, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

Savage Tire Factory, Factory Building, 2301 Main Street, San Diego, Sa...

Survey number: HAER CA-79-D Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1934 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: after 1989 Subsequent Work

National Tire Warehouse, 2825 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia

National Tire Warehouse, 2825 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Arlington C...

Survey number: HABS VA-1278 Building/structure dates: 1939 Initial Construction

[The Weed Chain Tire Grip Company, New York City, challenges Mr. Harry Houdini]

[The Weed Chain Tire Grip Company, New York City, challenges Mr. Harr...

Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, born in Budapest in 1874. He was one of the most famous and successful magicians of his time, known for his spectacular escape acts and death-de... More

Loafing around. Group of boys who had been sweepers and doffers, then worked in tire factory and now out on strike. 5 P.M. Location: Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Loafing around. Group of boys who had been sweepers and doffers, then ...

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Lee Tire demonstration - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Lee Tire demonstration - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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[...] tire story - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[...] tire story - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Traffic paint undergoes rigid tests. Washington, D.C., April 16. At the U.S. Bureau of Standards, J.E. Keefauver of the Bureau has been running tests on the paint that is placed on safety zones and streets to determine which has the best wearing activity. The discs [?] are painted with the traffic paint the chain-driven wheel of eraser rubber (to imitate an auto tire) slowly wears the paint away. The brushes are to keep the disc and tire clean. These tests were made at the requests of the traffic bureaus, 4/16/1937

Traffic paint undergoes rigid tests. Washington, D.C., April 16. At th...

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Swing made of an old rubber tire. Gibbs City, Michigan

Swing made of an old rubber tire. Gibbs City, Michigan

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Tire rims at junkyard, Abbeville, Louisiana

Tire rims at junkyard, Abbeville, Louisiana

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Repairing tire on road near Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Repairing tire on road near Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississip...

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Rehabilitation borrower's shoes, made out of tire casings. Greene County, Georgia

Rehabilitation borrower's shoes, made out of tire casings. Greene Coun...

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Sealing and shaping the bead. Each new bead must be sealed into position by this forming tool as well as by use of the solvent-cement compound. Every tire built is the personal achievement of the expert tire builder. Building a larger size truck tire often consumes a full day's work! Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Sealing and shaping the bead. Each new bead must be sealed into positi...

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Another sturdy track for an Army halftrac car will soon be ready for use. On the trimming rack of the Ohio tire plant in which it was made curing plates and overflowing edges of rubber are removed. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

Another sturdy track for an Army halftrac car will soon be ready for u...

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Steel bases for the bogie wheel assemblies of Army halftrac cars are inspected in a Midwest tire plant. Accurate gauging is necessary to insure positive fit in molds and in wheel assemblies. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

Steel bases for the bogie wheel assemblies of Army halftrac cars are i...

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Wrapping in cloth prevents sticking. Reels of fabric may be stored for a few moments or a few days, wrapped in cloth to prevent it from sticking to itself when rolled up. These reels are brought from storage to machines such as this, in which the fabric is out on a powered bias cutter to exact length for one ply of a tire. This worker is making a layer of two plies, with the cords running at right angles, one laid on top of the other. This layer will later be used by a tire builder in building up the plies of his tire to the required number. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Wrapping in cloth prevents sticking. Reels of fabric may be stored for...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Tire reclaimed from automobiles, scrapped for their iron and steel content. The rubber content of these tires can be reclaimed successfully to replace the use of new rubber in many articles. The U.S. Army is experimenting at the moment with the use of retreaded tires on trucks (U.S. Route 1,

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Tire reclaimed from automobiles, s...

Shaping the sidewall. Moistening the bead area with a special rubber solvent and cement, the tire builder makes ready to force the overhanging edges down and around to the bead where it will first be anchored, then trimmed. The wheel spins and stops by foot control, leaving both hands free for work upon the tire itself. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Shaping the sidewall. Moistening the bead area with a special rubber s...

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Citation winners. William G. Marshall, Director of the War Production Drive. Standing, is shown presenting the Honor Group at the luncheon tendered by Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of War Production Board (WPB), following the White House ceremony. Left to right: Mrs. Marshall, Mr. Nelson, Joseph H. Kautsky, Dodge Plant Link-Belt Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, James A. Merrill, research chemist with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio; Edwin C. Tracy, field engineer for RCA Manufacturing Company, Camden, New Jersey, Clinton R. Hanna, research department manager for the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company of Pittsburgh, and Madison E. Butler, assistant chief inspector for the Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Manufacture Company

Citation winners. William G. Marshall, Director of the War Production ...

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Tire recapping. Preparing a worn automobile tire for recapping. The operator applied a coating of rubber adhesive after the tread surface of the tire has been ground down evenly. 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

Tire recapping. Preparing a worn automobile tire for recapping. The op...

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Holabird ordnance depot, Baltimore, Maryland. In the recapping shop, after visual inspection, the tire is put in a tire spreader for thorough inside and outside inspection. Here a soldier is using a probe to remove a nail from the tire

Holabird ordnance depot, Baltimore, Maryland. In the recapping shop, a...

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A black and white photo of a group of men standing in front of a truck. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of men standing in front of a truck...

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