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Robert Berger of Omaha, Nebraska wins the Soap Box Derby race held in Akron, Ohio.

Annual Soap Box Derby held in Akron, Ohio. The young boys work on their Soapbox cars. A youngster works on the wheel of his car. Spectators stand on either side of the racing track.. The Soapbox cars at the starting point. The race starts. Men on bike behind the cars. 14 year old Robert Berger from Omaha, Nebraska wins the race. Robert being presented the winning trophy and he smiles.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
Date: 1938, August 15
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033926
Tests on tires show motorists new ways to save rubber in Akron Ohio.

Shows tracks of a moving tank. Workers manufacturing tank-tracks in factory. Huge rubber inflated tire-tubes rolled out of factory by workers and loaded on trucks.Shows a Car in Akron Ohio performing various strain tests on tires over different road surfaces. July 1941.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
Date: 1941, July
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028739
Loading of aircraft tires at Goodrich Rubber Company Plant in Akron Ohio.

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.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030483
Assembly line of half track treads at a manufacturing company in Akron Ohio.

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.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030485
Tire undergoes vulcanization process at Goodrich Rubber Company in Akron Ohio.

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.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030486
Barrage balloons from Goodyear inflated and raised in Akron Ohio as wartime production increases

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.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030562
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