Delegates of The Pan American Highway Commission visit rubber tire manufacturing facilities in Akron, Ohio. Two motorcyclists lead the caravan of official cars and buses passing by fields approaching Akron. Commission members standing in a field overlooking the city of Akron. Women working with rubber sheets in a tire manufacturing plant. In another view at the tire plant, men place new rubber tire tubes over spinning wheels and then shift them to an assembly line. Workers with finished rubber tires.
Construction of United States airship Akron. Motor compartments in the airship. Crew's bunk room under construction inside Akron. One out of the eight engines being installed by men. Men work on fuel tanks, condensers and propeller shaft A covered fin is lifted in a sling. Three vertical fins being installed. Men coat the outer cover with silver. Interiors of the control room with control panel. Thousands of steel bottles filled with helium piled up. Helium being taken away with hose for storage in underground tanks. Mobile mooring mast and mooring cone. Mooring cap on nose of Akron airship.
Superintendents and development men from Goodyear tire companies come for a conference in Akron Ohio. They disembark from the train, take their belongings and proceed towards the venue. View of downtown street of Akron. Goodyear managers from all over the world attend the conference. Sam Steere and his cotton mill men, Kox and Kavenagh from Windsor, along with Harry Post are seen. , Cormen and Peperika from South America are seen. Views of tire production underway at Goodyear plants. Old rubber tires seen at a reclamation plant. View of an Airplane wheel being constructed. Tank treads stockpiled at St. Marys, Ohio. View of tanks crossing a field and warplanes soaring over them. View of back of St. Mary's Goodyear molded rubber plant.
Making of the dirigible USS Akron at Akron in Ohio. A large hanger inside which the huge dirigible assembled. A 550 Horse Power engine of the airship brought on engine stand. Propellers of the engine dirigible. Propellers move tilt during landing. Propeller rotates and tilts in straight and downwards.
Making of the dirigible USS Akron at Akron in Ohio. A large hanger inside which the huge dirigible assembled. Workers place the cover of airship starting from its nose. Interior of the dirigible with a maze of duralumin girders and wires.
United States Navy airship Akron being successfully tried in Akron, Ohio. Crew members gathered around the 785 feet long airship as it prepares for its maiden flight. The airship in flight. Aerial view of the airship in flight.
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