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A black and white photo of a man working in a tire shop, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

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

Forge shop. Gas heated furnace. Keystone Drilling Company, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania

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

Noland Plumbing Co., Inc. Man working at steaming machinery

Three Moro men in the 1900s

KLM Schiphol, Noord Holland

Sawmill Interiors - Massachusetts, National Forest Service photograph.

Stirring paper pulp in a large vat at the Mississquoi Corporation paper mill in Sheldon Springs, Vermont

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Tire recapping. A recap job on a passenger car tire. The tire with a tread strip of reclaimed camelback rubber is put into a curing mold. The old tread surface had previously 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 recap job on a passenger car tire. The tire with a tread strip of reclaimed camelback rubber is put into a curing mold. The old tread surface had previously 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. 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. 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. "Cooking" a recapped passenger car tire in a curing mold. The recap is made by applying passenger type reclaimed camelback to a worn casing on which the tread surface had previously 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

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01/01/1943
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label_outline Explore Rubber Director William M, Passenger Car Tire, Rubber Camelback

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Sayward Pierce, Passenger Service Agent, 723 Air Mobility Squadron (AMS), Ramstein Air Base (AB), Germany, works the customer service counter at the Air Mobility Command (AMC) passenger terminal. (Duplicate image, see also DFSD0412472 or search 021211F1851U004)

Tire recapping. A recap job on a passenger car tire. The tire with a tread strip of reclaimed camelback rubber is put into a curing mold. The old tread surface had previously 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

Graduate register nurse, above, receives instruction in technique of anesthesia from doctor. There is a great demand for more well qualified anesthetists at present

Equipment Operator Constructionman Joseph Brown from Seaside, Calif. changes out a tire on a water truck

Transformer manufacture. Fitting up outer parts of giant transformers is one of the skilled jobs done by employees of a large Eastern electrical company. The demand for power transformers has increased in proportion to America's ever-increasing war production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Day laborer pumping up tractor tire, farm near Ralls, Texas

Aluminum casting. One of the skilled workers in an aluminum foundry pictured ramming the drag side of a sand mold. This foundry is producing aluminum equipment for Uncle Sam's war effort, under subcontract to other factories producing war items. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR MASTER Sergeant (SMSGT) Terry Wickman, a laboratory technician assigned to the 819/219 Expeditionary Red Horse Squadron's (RHS) materials testing lab, fills a mold to conduct an asphalt sample at a forward-deployed location in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Airman Erik D. Antrim, aviation structural mechanic,

An act to enforce and make more effectual an act, entitled, "An act laying am embargo on all ships and vessels, in the ports and harbors of the United States," and the several acts supplementary thereto ... Approved. January 9, 1809. Th: Jeffers

Lebango, Moyen Congo bush, French Equatorial Africa. Monthly wild rubber market at which natives sell what they have gathered to administered or commercial representatives. On this long table made of branches, the natives deposit their rubber while they await their turn at the scales

Mississippi Air National Guard (MSANG) MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Felix Gines, 209th Combat Regional Training Center, removes plasterboard from a Hurricane Katrina flood damaged home in D'Iberville, Mississippi (MS). The plasterboard must be removed because of mold that grew on it after it is submerged in the floodwaters from the storm surge

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safety film negatives tire passenger car passenger car tire mold recap type passenger type camelback tread surface tread surface ground plan recap passenger tires rubber rubber camelback director william rubber director william m jeffers effect demand replacement replacement tires service united states history industrial history workers worker library of congress