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Crude rubber, baled, in the storage room. This rubber will be used to make automobile tires and tubes. Ford River Rouge plant

Crude rubber, baled, in the storage room. This rubber will be used to ...

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Rubber reclamation. Reclaiming rubber from scrap tires. An attendant at a large Midwest xylos process plant checks temperature on a continuous belt dryer which removes every trace of water. Recovery of rubber from old casings is based on dissolving and washing away all tire fibers and processing the resultant rubber material. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Reclaiming rubber from scrap tires. An attendant a...

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Washington, D.C. Washington tire store. Retreading tires

Washington, D.C. Washington tire store. Retreading tires

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Tire retreading. When new plies and rubber are set in place, they are vulcanized right into the tires, forming a part of them. "Cured," which means baked in an oven such as this, this tire emerges ready for long, hard wear almost as strong as a new tire

Tire retreading. When new plies and rubber are set in place, they are ...

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Baltimore, Maryland. Davidson Transfer Company trucking terminal. Checking the tires on truck tractors

Baltimore, Maryland. Davidson Transfer Company trucking terminal. Chec...

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Office of War Information news bureau. These OWI reporters work six days a week on stories for both domestic and overseas use. In the course of a week most of them turn out a list of assignments as long as a cub reporter's. Examples of the variety of stories done: "Roundup on wartime transportation," "Industrial feeding program started in war plants," "U.S. Army heroes of Greek descent," "How to get your tires recapped." Stories for domestic release go to the chief of the general news desk. Ken Stewart, chief of the foreign desk, reviews all overseas assignments

Office of War Information news bureau. These OWI reporters work six da...

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Used tires. Minot, North Dakota

Used tires. Minot, North Dakota

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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

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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Marking point for the valve stem. These tires are so perfectly balanced that the weight of the valve stem is allowed and provided for. This woman attaches a label to the tire at the point where the valve stem should be placed. Balancing a tire was once considered unneccessary, until it was demonstrated that out-of-balance tires cause wheel shimmy, excessive wear and many other tire evils. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Marking point for the valve stem. These tires are so perfectly balance...

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Military tire manufacture. Huge truck tire like those shown in this tire storeroom are playing important part in the nation's war effort. Tires like these are used on huge trucks and military prime movers. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Military tire manufacture. Huge truck tire like those shown in this ti...

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War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. Tires of a war housing trailer are removed as soon as this home for a war worker's family is delivered. The Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles uses these tires for further deliveries. The branded tires may be seen at the top

War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. Tires of a war housing trailer are r...

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

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. Row upon row of rugged tires wait to be lifted on to conveyors which deposit them at the right spot on the steadily moving Dodge Army truck production line

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. ...

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Old plows and wornout tires. Testimonial to the sources of the residents of the community camp. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. See general caption no. 21

Old plows and wornout tires. Testimonial to the sources of the residen...

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Mexican repairing automobile. San Antonio, Texas. Notice the worn-out tires

Mexican repairing automobile. San Antonio, Texas. Notice the worn-out ...

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Loading raw rubber. Bales of raw rubber, removed from wooden crates in which they have traveled from Singapore, are wheeled up to this endless chain loader, which will automatically feed it into the "guillotine," the first step in making tires at an Ohio tire plant

Loading raw rubber. Bales of raw rubber, removed from wooden crates in...

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Raw rubber wheeled to mill room. Wagonload of cut rubber is carted from the cutting machine into the "make-up" room where ingredients are gathered, weighed and measured for each batch of rubber to be made up into General tires. Firestone (General Tires). Akron, Ohio.

Raw rubber wheeled to mill room. Wagonload of cut rubber is carted fro...

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Military tire manufacture. Huge truck tire like those shown in this tire storeroom are playing important part in the nation's war effort. Tires like these are used on huge trucks and military prime movers. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Military tire manufacture. Huge truck tire like those shown in this ti...

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

Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, was designed for the vulcanizing of giant tires used on earth-moving machinery, but is now helping out the war program by vulcanizing self-sealing gas tanks for the nation's war planes. The mold containing the tank has been lowered into the vulcanizing unit and the huge cover is being lowered into position before the heat is turned on

Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, w...

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Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Don, an aircraft worker at Lockheed Vega Aircraft Corporation, is plenty worried about the state of his tires. Continuous company publicity has convinced him that new ones will not come his way for a long, long time. Don lives about ten miles from the plant, which is the average distance Vega employees must travel to work. There are no public transportation facilities near his house

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Don, an aircraft worker at Lockheed Vega...

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Subcontracting aircraft parts. War production is in large measure a story of conversion, a story of using at once facilities already available while newer facilities are being readied. Formerly an airship dock, this huge building--thought to be the largest in the world with no interior supports--is now the scene of many busy shops turning out aircraft sub-assembly parts. Either new housing close to the plant or vastly improved public transportation will eventually have to be supplied, for the tires on the cars of the workers, and perhaps even the cars themselves, will in many instances give in before the end of the present emergency. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. War production is in large measure a st...

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Weighing ingredients. As in any recipe, this measuring of ingredients for the "batch" of the rubber must be done with great care. At this point it is determined whether the raw rubber will be converted into tread stock, fabric gum, tube stock, repair material or mechanical rubber stock. All ingredients--rubber, chemicals, liquids--are placed in the metal tub, and delivered to the mill room for processing. General Tires, Akron, Ohio

Weighing ingredients. As in any recipe, this measuring of ingredients ...

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Rubber reclamation. Rubber from old tires. Salvaged rubber, in the form of small pieces, passes over dewatering screens after it leaves the wash tanks. The pieces are secured by dissolving the fabric from gold casings cut into small sections after renewal of bead portions. The process, known as the xylos process, is employed in a large Midwest rubber plant. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Rubber from old tires. Salvaged rubber, in the for...

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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...

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Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires, with beads removed, are fed to the "cracker," or grinding machine, of a big Midwest tire plant. The machine breaks the scrap tire into small pieces to facilitate removal of rubber from fabric. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires, with beads removed, are fed to the "c...

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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...

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Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler corportation Dodge truck plant. These tires are for Dodge Army trucks. Overhead conveyors quickly move them from receiving docks to their proper places along the vast production line

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler corportation Dodge truck plant....

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War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. A war housing trailer with wheels and tires removed is supported solidly and safely on heavy wooden horses. The number of removed tires are carefully recorded. Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles makes large numbers of these homes for war workers

War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. A war housing trailer with wheels an...

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Conservation rubber tires. Scenes such as this become less and less frequent as Uncle Sam pushes his all-out drive to conserve rubber. Many of these discarded tires could easily be reconditioned and used for many thousands of miles. Other discards are immediately baled up and reused by rubber plants. Two tons of reclaimed rubber will go as far as one ton of crude rubber

Conservation rubber tires. Scenes such as this become less and less fr...

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age forty-five, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company makin...

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Chicago, Illinois. Checking tires that have just been unloaded from a truck at the United States Army consolidating station

Chicago, Illinois. Checking tires that have just been unloaded from a ...

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Piles of worn-out automobile tires in oil fields at Kilgore, Texas. Bad roads and heavy trucking in the oil fields cause great wear on both tires and automobiles

Piles of worn-out automobile tires in oil fields at Kilgore, Texas. Ba...

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Shacks on edge of city dump, occupied by men who gain their living by salvaging of scrap iron, old tires, paper which they bale, etc. Dubuque, Iowa

Shacks on edge of city dump, occupied by men who gain their living by ...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Spare wheels and tires by the hundreds for Army trucks are piled up in the Dodge Company's Lynch Road plant, in Detroit. Approximately 250 sets are required for each day's production. This makes a tremendous stock covering a huge arsenal at the plant

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Spare wheels and tires by the hundreds...

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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...

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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

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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Drying at top speed. Reeled away from the calendaring machine, the fresh stock rolls over towering drying racks shown here. Weighted tension bars keep the festooned sheet of new fabric taut and straight as it cools and dries. From the drying racks, the fabric travels quickly onto rolls of cloth where it is rolled onto reels small enough to handle. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Drying at top speed. Reeled away from the calendaring machine, the fre...

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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

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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

Creel room in action. Two spools are needed for each of the endless cords. As fast as a spool runs out, the auxiliary spool is immediately pulled into service. Each time one of the spools is replaced, the new spool is tied to the end of the spool which is unwinding so that there is never an interruption in any cord. Should a cord break, it is immediately replaced from an emergency spool until the break can be repaired. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Creel room in action. Two spools are needed for each of the endless co...

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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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Production. C-47 transport planes. Why civilian tires must be conserved. Casings for the big landing wheels of C-47 transport planes in the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. Why civilian tires must be conserve...

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Washington, D.C. Girdles, toys, tires in rubber salvage pile at Georgia Avenue filling station

Washington, D.C. Girdles, toys, tires in rubber salvage pile at Georgi...

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Conservation. Truck tires run 146,000 miles. No. 1. John L. Rogers, Director of the Division of Motor Transport, Office of Defense Transportation, displays a still-usable truck tire which has run 146,000 miles. The air pressure in its present condition

Conservation. Truck tires run 146,000 miles. No. 1. John L. Rogers, Di...

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Charlotte, North Carolina. Loading tires onto a truck at the terminal of the Associated Transport Company for shipment to other terminals

Charlotte, North Carolina. Loading tires onto a truck at the terminal ...

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Charlotte, North Carolina. Branding tires with serial numbers at the Associated Transport Company terminal

Charlotte, North Carolina. Branding tires with serial numbers at the A...

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Piles of worn-out automobile tires in oil fields at Kilgore, Texas. Bad roads and heavy trucking in the oil fields cause great wear on both tires and automobiles

Piles of worn-out automobile tires in oil fields at Kilgore, Texas. Ba...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Crating Dodge Army trucks for overseas shipment. The trucks are shipped in lots of two, four or six to a box. When crates contain only two trucks, wheels and tires are included in the box, but where they are shipped in lots of four or more, there are separate boxes for the chassis, cabs, express bodies, wheels and tires, and sheet metal

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Crating Dodge Army trucks for overseas...

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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

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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Off to the calendaring machine. The finished batch is taken by other tire workers to the next step in the milling process. In this instance, the batch goes from the mill room to the calendaring machine, where it will become a part of the cord fabric. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Off to the calendaring machine. The finished batch is taken by other t...

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The guillotine. Having slid down the trough on the lower left, the bale of raw rubber is now being squeezed against the knife blades on the left under terrific pressure. These blades fan out into eight selections, cut the rubber into eights like an orange divides into sections. General Tires (Firestone), Akron, Ohio

The guillotine. Having slid down the trough on the lower left, the bal...

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Tubes are extruded. Much as meat is forced through a grinder, tube rubber is forced through this machine and out the opening at the end, which allows an even flow of rubber to make a seamless rubber tube. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Tubes are extruded. Much as meat is forced through a grinder, tube rub...

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Removing the finished tire from the tire drum. The inner drum shoes are unlocked after the tire is loosened; They are removed, leaving the tire free to slide right off. Then they are replaced and the next tire is started. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Removing the finished tire from the tire drum. The inner drum shoes ar...

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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

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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Covering the beads. Beads are covered with sturdy fabric which builds back down into the sidewall of the finished tire for added strength. Passenger tires are normally supplied with only one wire bead, but truck tires usually have two or more, depending upon the size, weight and number of plies. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Covering the beads. Beads are covered with sturdy fabric which builds ...

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Washington, D.C. Washington tire shop. Rubber butted off tires to smooth them for retreading

Washington, D.C. Washington tire shop. Rubber butted off tires to smoo...

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

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....

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

Washington, D.C. Tire moulds which are handmade and cost hundreds of dollars and tires with recaps glued in place

Washington, D.C. Tire moulds which are handmade and cost hundreds of d...

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War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. A war housing trailer in place at a Lompoc, California project. Electrical, water and drainage connections have been made. Heavy wooden sawhorses are slipped under each end in line with main support of trailer floor, to permit removal of wheels and re-use of tires in delivering other trailers. This trailer was made by Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles

War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. A war housing trailer in place at a ...

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Sonoma County, California. Wine delivery truck raised on blocks because no tires were available

Sonoma County, California. Wine delivery truck raised on blocks becaus...

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Vacuum shaping machine. Flat carcasses taken from the storage racks are placed in this vacuum machine in which two things happen. First a combination vacuum suction and squeezing action pulls the tire into the shape it will always have in use. Second, an airbag is forced into the inside to provide inside strength for the curing step. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Vacuum shaping machine. Flat carcasses taken from the storage racks ar...

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Rubber reclamation. Rubber harvest from scrapped tires. Reclaimed, dried scrap rubber is plasticized on the eighty-four-inch mill roll of a xylos process plant in the Midwest. Pigments are added to give the properties desired in the finished product. As it comes off the mill rolls, the reclaimed substance has regained the appearance of new rubber. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Rubber harvest from scrapped tires. Reclaimed, dri...

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Battery of curing molds. While the curing, or cooking, operation is going on for the tire we have followed through the plant, it is also going on simultaneously for hundreds of other tires in production. This view shows one corridor in the curing room where fifty tires are being cured at once. Additional molds flank this group on both sides of long corridor such as this one. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Battery of curing molds. While the curing, or cooking, operation is go...

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Closing the cover of the mold. Entirely automatic, the "watch-case" mold is closed by pushing a button, which starts several operations. First the airbag is filled with live steam which circulates during the entire process; next an automatic timer sets itself for the proper length of time and temperature; next pressure is exerted to squeeze the tire into the mold pattern. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Closing the cover of the mold. Entirely automatic, the "watch-case" mo...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A display of worn and abused tires stands at the Inglewood, California plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. It serves as a dramatic warning to employees to save tires and keep their cars rolling. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A display of worn and abuse...

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Tires become more precious as the days go by. Imperial County, California

Tires become more precious as the days go by. Imperial County, Califor...

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Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Conservation of rubber by American motorists makes possible these bomber tires, which are being assembled in a large Eastern aircraft plant. These Negro workers are clamping on lock washers to the wheels before final assembly of the landing gear. Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant. Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Conservation of rubber by Americ...

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War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. A war housing trailer with wheels and tires removed is supported solidly and safely on heavy wooden horses. The number of removed tires are carefully recorded. Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles makes large numbers of these homes for war workers

War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. A war housing trailer with wheels an...

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

Driver checking tires outside a diner where he has stopped for dinner along U.S. Highway 40 in Delaware

Driver checking tires outside a diner where he has stopped for dinner ...

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Daughters of white migrant auto wrecker sitting on tires in corner of tent home. Nueces Bay, Corpus Christi, Texas

Daughters of white migrant auto wrecker sitting on tires in corner of ...

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Storage racks for unshaped carcasses. Awaiting the shaping machine, these "finished" carcasses are hung on opened racks, on which they slide easily on and off. Although these carcasses do not look much like tires, they are only two steps away from final completion. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Storage racks for unshaped carcasses. Awaiting the shaping machine, th...

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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

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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

View of the creel room. Spools of cord are brought from storage into this creel room, from which they are woven into tire fabric. Each spool is connected by a complicated pulley arrangement to the bank of cords seen in the center of the picture and travels overhead to reach that bank. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

View of the creel room. Spools of cord are brought from storage into t...

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The woman's touch is final. Double-checked after painting, finished tires pass before this woman to make sure they are perfect, that the sidewall markings are correct and clear. Firestone(General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

The woman's touch is final. Double-checked after painting, finished ti...

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Military tire manufacture. Huge truck tire like those shown in this tire storeroom are playing important part in the nation's war effort. Tires like these are used on huge trucks and military prime movers. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Military tire manufacture. Huge truck tire like those shown in this ti...

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Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Conservation of civilian tires makes possible this airplane tire ready to leave the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Conservation of civilian tir...

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Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. This clever poster tells Don how the lone rider aids our enemies and tells him where to go to get transportation with another employee blessed with better tires

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. This clever poster tells Don how the lon...

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Storage. Butadiene, chief ingredient of synthetic rubber, is stored in nine tanks at the Institute plant operated by the United States Rubber Company at Institute, West Virginia. These tanks will hold butadiene for three days operations, the equivalent of more than 180,000 passenger car tires

Storage. Butadiene, chief ingredient of synthetic rubber, is stored in...

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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

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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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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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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Rubber reclamation. Rubber "spaghetti" from old tires. In the xylos process of reclaiming scrap in a Midwest plant, rubber is forced through a screen by a large worn screw, and bits of metal and fiber are removed. Ropy lengths of rubber, ready for the final refining operation, are extruded. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Rubber "spaghetti" from old tires. In the xylos pr...

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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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Salvage. Scrap tires. On their way to swell America's most important stockpile. Employees of a large Southern junkyard load scrap tires for shipment to a reclaiming plant where the rubber will be removed and processed into essential war materials

Salvage. Scrap tires. On their way to swell America's most important ...

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Make your scrap tires save lives. Slacker. The approximately ten pounds of rubber in this old tire should be helping the war effort. If the casing is still usable it should be on a car in active service. If it cannot be reconditioned it should be turned in at a local salvage center for forwarding to a rubber reclamation plant. The rubber in this tire is about equal in weight to the rubber used in making a three-men aviation life raft

Make your scrap tires save lives. Slacker. The approximately ten pound...

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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...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Wooden wheels are attached to a P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane so it may be moved around the ramp at the Inglewood, California plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. When it is ready for flight tests, regular landing wheels with rubber tires will be substituted. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Wooden wheels are attached ...

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Abandoned car with tires stolen

Abandoned car with tires stolen

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Salvage. Scrap tires. On their way to swell America's most important stockpile. Employees of a large Southern junkyard load scrap tires for shipment to a reclaiming plant where the rubber will be removed and processed into essential war materials

Salvage. Scrap tires. On their way to swell America's most important ...

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Used tires. Minot, North Dakota

Used tires. Minot, North Dakota

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). A bank of wheels and tires for Dodge Army trucks piled up as they arrive at the plant before the assembling process starts

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). A bank of wheels and tires for Dodge A...

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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

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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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...

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Rubber reclamation. Rubber sheets from scrap tires. Reclaimed rubber, with all traces of metal and fiber removed, is passed through a series of mill rolls and taken off in sheets form the final roll. This rubber, reclaimed by the xylos process, is now ready for processing into thousands of mechanical rubber products vital to the war production effort. It is also put to many uses in which reclaimed stock is more desirable than new rubber. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Rubber sheets from scrap tires. Reclaimed rubber, ...

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A few of the 10,000 tires produced each day at the Ford plant for cars, trucks, and tractors. Ford River Rouge plant

A few of the 10,000 tires produced each day at the Ford plant for cars...

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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

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. Gears for guns-for-victory. Hundreds of these precision cut gears roll off specially designed gear-cutters daily in the Bofors plant of a large rubber factory. When assembled, they'll be part of the Bofors forty- millimeter anti-aircraft gun mounts and carriages, some of the war essentials now manufactured in a plant whose sole product used to be tires for the family sedan

Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. Gears for guns-for-victory. Hundreds o...

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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 ...

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Butte, Montana. Truck stripped of tires

Butte, Montana. Truck stripped of tires

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Production. P-51 "Mustang" fighter planes. An employee checks one of the temporary wooden wheels placed on a P-51 fighter on the North American flight training at the Inglewood, California, plant. Regular rubber tires are installed when the planes are ready for flight tests. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. P-51 "Mustang" fighter planes. An employee checks one of t...

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Sonoma County, California. Wine delivery truck raised on blocks because no tires were available

Sonoma County, California. Wine delivery truck raised on blocks becaus...

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Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. And so Don goes to the transportation office to see what can be done. The hope of many employees is to be certified to the rationing board as deserving of new tires or retreads, but if the employee is convenient to existing transportation or company bus line or lives within four miles of plant or can be doubled up with another driver already carrying passengers, certification is not given

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. And so Don goes to the transportation of...

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