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Stitching a Tire

Date: 10 19 1944
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.
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Attaching Tread to Tire

Date: 01 06 1947
Description: Tire builder Arnold Brandt rolls the tread onto a heavy service truck tire.
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First Gillette Tire

Date: 05 23 1917
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...
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First Gillette Tire, Completed

Date: 05 23 1917
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...
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Alfred Lawson Comparing Palmer and Goodyear Cord Aero Tyres

Date: 1920
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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Delivery Truck

Date: 06 02 1927
Description: View across street towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a delivery truck parked along the curb in front of a brick building. Signs on the building...
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Delivery Truck

Date: 12 12 1927
Description: View towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a delivery truck. In the background is a brick building with large, open garage doors. The sign on the t...
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McCormick-Deering Power Farm Equipment Truck

Date: 07 20 1928
Description: Slightly elevated view from front left of a truck parked on a gravel road. A man is sitting in the driver's seat, and the truck bed is open. On the front a...
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Elm Crest Farm

Date: 07 19 1928
Description: View across farmyard towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of an International truck. Two cows are standing in the back of the truck which has a stake...

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