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First Gillette Tire
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A group of men, women and children are standing and watching as a Gillette employee works on the first tire produced by the Gillette Rubber Company. From left to right are: Mr. Gillette, Hodge Smith, R.W. Hutchens, H. Hutchens, Hans Olson, and Edward Bostwick. The boy in the livery coat is Earl Mertes.
May 23, 1917
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First Gillette Tire, Completed
May 23, 1917
A group of men, women and children standing around the first tire produced by the Gillette Rubber Company. Hodge Smith is standing a baby on a table behind the tire. From left to right are: George ...
First Gillette Company Tire
1917
Interior shot of a group of men, women and boys at the Gillette Tire Company. The Gillette Safety Tire Company was founded in Eau Claire in 1916 and the crowd is probably present to witness the pro...
Building the First Tire at Gillette
October 19, 1944
Tire builder William (Bill) McNair puts a pocket on the first tire built at the Gillette Tire Plant. Civic representatives and employees of construction firms and of the plant watch him. From left ...
First Tire Made at Gillette Tire Plant
October 21, 1944
The first tire to be cured in the Gillette Tire Plant is removed from the mold. From left to right are F.B. Davis Jr. (Chairman of the United States Rubber Company's Board of Directors), factory ma...
Building a Tire
October 19, 1944
Severin Gullickson applies a circumferential wrap to a wire bead while building a tire at Gillette Tire Plant.
Making a Tire
October 19, 1944
Bill Mcnair rolls the tread onto a tire as two other men look on at the Rubber Company's Gillette Tire Plant.
