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Pan American Highway Commission delegates visit a rubber tire manufacturing facility in Akron, Ohio

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.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
Date: 1924
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030556
United States airship Akron being built in Akron, Ohio as men work on its various parts.

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.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
Date: 1931, June
Duration: 5 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042200
Women from Goodyear show use of Pliofilm bags to protect personal articles from water when swimming

Women from Goodyear rubber company show new use of Pliofilm in Akron Ohio. Man gives pliofilm bags to women. The pliofilm bags serve as waterproof purses for the women's things. Women in swimsuits walk towards the lake on a dock. They swim and then later apply make-up. They swing on a swing set above the water. Narrator describes how Pliofilm is also used for defense purposes, in parachutes, food packages and bandages.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030564
Promotion for Goodyear's "Protect Our Good Name" slogan campaign

Goodyear tire manufacturing plant In Akron Ohio. Employees gather and stand in line. A man instructs them. Men with goods carriers walk out. Two men hang slogan plate of Goodyear on the wall. 'Protect our good name' is written on slogan plate. One of these plates is seen near a water tap. Man drinks water from fountain and reads the slogan. Views of a another plaque with more text after the slogan. Narrator reads words on the plaque written by Goodyear's Mr. Paul Litchfield, Chairman and CEO of Goodyear. View of factory smoke stack with smoke coming out of it.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030572
Workers in the rubber heel manufacturing unit in Windsor Vermont in United States.

Manufacturing of rubber heels for the soles of U.S. soldiers' boots at a Goodyear plant in Windsor, Vermont. Men and women emerge from rubber heel manufacturing facility in Windsor Vermont. Workers wash uncured rubber heels and keep them to dry so as to prevent them from sticking. Man puts rubber heels in molds for nailing. Each nailed heel passes through vulcanization machines. Woman checks the vulcanized rubber heels and puts them together. Women pass completed heels through an X-ray machine and check for defects. In Akron, Ohio, a U.S. Army soldier stands in front of the statue of Charles Goodyear, the founder of Goodyear rubber company, and the discoverer of vulcanization. (World War II period).

Location: Windsor Vermont USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030565
Delegates of Pan American Congress of Journalists on tour of tire manufacturing units in Akron Ohio.

Delegates from Pan American Congress of Journalists visit tire manufacturing plant in Akron Ohio. In Brazil a man collects rubber from trees. A man tends the liquid rubber into rubber balls over fire,large balls laid on the ground and men loading rubber balls on horsebacks. Map showing route from Brazil to Akron,Ohio. Women workers prepare sheets of rubber while men pull out rubber tiers from spinning wheels and place the tires in assembly line.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
Date: 1927
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675030523
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