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Mansfield Tire and Rubber

Five unidentified employees on the factory floor at the Mansfield Tire and Rubber Company.

Mansfield Tire and Rubber - Row of Hand Building Tire Stands

The larger sizes of fabric Tires are made wholly by hand. Here the fabric is laid and stretched, ply by ply, over iron cores.

Mansfield Tire and Rubber - Rolling Inner Tubes

Un-vulcanized rubber in long sheets is rolled four plies thick – laminated – on poles of burnished steel wrapped with tape and “cured” in big cylinders

Mansfield Tire and Rubber - Inspecting Crude Rubber

Several employees at the Mansfield Tire Co. inspecting crude rubber.

Mansfield Tire and Rubber - Preparing Rubber Stock

Here the rubber, as it comes from the Calender, is cut to proper length, gauged and inspected, then placed in books or pockets ready for the Tire builders.

Mansfield Tire and Rubber - Fabric Preparing Room

Here the fabric, after it has been frictioned and cut into strips, is inspected, measured and placed in “pockets” ready for the Tire builders.

Mansfield Tire and Rubber - Office Workers

Three office employees working in the office of the Mansfield Tire Co. The calendar reads November 1921.

Mansfield Tire and Rubber - Jesse S. Wainwright

Jesse S. Wainwright – A Vice-President and member of the Board of Directors.

Mansfield Tire and Rubber - Clyde K. Smaltz

Clyde K. Smaltz – Director of Transportation of The Mansfield Tire and Rubber Co.

Mansfield Tire and Rubber - Harry Francis Webster

Harry Francis Webster – Sales manager of The Mansfield Tire and Rubber Co.