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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

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 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 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

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

The tracks for Army halftrac cars run over bogie wheels which distribute the load and absorb shock through the springs on which they are mounted. The steel bases for these bogie wheels undergo inspection at a Midwest tire plant engaged in halftrac production. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

Rubber reclamation. Harvesting rubber from discarded tires. Scrap rubber, reclaimed by dissolving and washing out the fibrous materials in old casings, goes through the first refining process in a big Midwest plant. The cleaned, plasticized scrap passes through rolls which carry off dirt and foreign particles at the sides. The refined rubber is then gathered in sheets for further steps in the xylos process. Firestone

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

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

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

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01/01/1941
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United States. Office for Emergency Management.
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Akron (Ohio) ,  41.08139, -81.51889
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label_outline Explore Cleats, Field Equipment, Firestone

Crampon, CEMEL - NATICK soldier systems center, U.S. Army

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

Balloons - R - Type R, Army Kite Balloon. Four of this type in the air at the Flying Field, Akron, Ohio. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co

Photograph of the Nose of the USS Akron being Attached, ca. 1933

Olga Rich - Hoppings. Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums

The tracks for an Army halftrac scout car begins to take shape on the "building wheel" of a Midwest tire plant. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

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

A Case MW20BFL forklift truck unloads field equipment from a C-141B Starlifter aircraft in support of Exercise KINDLE LIBERTY'85

Aircraft tire manufacture. This shot taken through a huge bomber tire shows an attractive rubber company employee with small airplane tire used on some military aircraft. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

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

Mayor Lummer, senator for Internal Affairs Berlin (left center), rides back to Rhein-Main Air Base from Templehof Air Base in a C-130 Hercules aircraft for the dedication ceremony of the Berlin Airlift Memorial

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