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| Date: | 10 21 1944 |
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| Description: | 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... |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | The first raw tire is placed in a mold at Gillette Tire Plant. From left to right are R.L. Chatterson, Julius Berkley, A.B. Smith, M.O. Wick, J.W. Harry Ku... |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Bill Mcnair rolls the tread onto a tire as two other men look on at the Rubber Company's Gillette Tire Plant. |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Severin Gullickson applies a circumferential wrap to a wire bead while building a tire at Gillette Tire Plant. |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Tom Ellington cutting rubber from a roll to make a tire at the Gillette Tire Plant. |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Tire builder Bill McNair stitches the side walls of a heavy service truck tire at the Gillette Tire Plant as men in suits watch. |
| Date: | 01 06 1947 |
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| Description: | Tire builder Arnold Brandt rolls the tread onto a heavy service truck tire. |
| Date: | 01 06 1947 |
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| Description: | Rode LeDue builds an 8.25/20 pocket for use in a heavy service tire. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of the U.S. Rubber Company plant and surrounding environment. |
| Date: | 04 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Women work in a row on machinery building tires. |
| Date: | 08 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a long row of heavy service tire building machines waiting to be installed in the Gillette Tire Plant. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wisconsin Rubber Company of Madison, Wisconsin, which operated the Florida plantation in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. Includes an oval i... |
| Date: | 05 23 1917 |
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| Description: | 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 l... |
| Date: | 05 23 1917 |
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| Description: | 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... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Alfred Lawson standing behind a Palmer cord aero tyre, which is sitting next to a smaller Goodyear cord tire. The smaller Goodyear tire was used for Lawson... |
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