At the Goodrich Rubber Company plant in Akron Ohio, workers load large aircraft tires onto a truck that has been backed up to a loading dock. Each tire is nearly as tall as a man and is rolled onto the truck and then hoisted into place by a group of workers.
Interior of a tread manufacturing company in Akron Ohio. Workers at the assembly line working with various machines. Men assemble various parts of the half track tread with the help of a hand tool. Man checks a tread. Other treads piled up in lines on the floor. A man examines the assembled tread.
Interior of Goodrich Rubber Company plant in Akron Ohio. A tire inside a vulcanization machine undergoes the vulcanizing process. A man monitors the heat and pressure gauge. Another man operates the vulcanizing machine. Once the process is complete, a man hooks the tire to a pulley to pull it out from the machine. A clear view of the huge tire. Man stands in front of the gauge and checks readings.
Press and media persons with other spectators witness the inflation and raising of a great many helium-filled barrage balloons made by Goodyear in Akron Ohio, at Wingfoot Lake. Men filling balloons with helium gas. Various balloons and blimps flying high in the sky. "Goodyear" is written on some of the balloons. View of Wingfoot Lake below the balloons. A Goodyear stratosentinal balloon with six large fins capable of flying to 15,000 feet. Barrage balloon seen landing as air rather than helium is let into the lower fin as a stabilizer. A blimp with writing "Goodyear Lifeguard Tires" on it.
Goodyear Company's new aircraft parts plant under construction in Akron Ohio. Aerial views of construction site. Steel girders of new factory seen.
Navy airship flying event at Wingfoot Lake hangar near Akron Ohio. Non rigid naval airship coming out of hangar for its first trial flight. U.S.Navy K-3 mark is seen on the dirigible. Commanders of navy in airship along with Mr. Paul Litchfield, Chaiman and CEO of Goodyear. The K-3 and a Goodyear blimp flying over the area. Aerial views of lake and town below. Airship lands.
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