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Mansfield Tire and Rubber Workers

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Workers in a large workroom inspecting newly made tires. None of the men are identified.

Mansfield Tire and Rubber - The Masticator

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A huge machine for mixing and kneading rubber compounds. Toothed rolls inside the big cylinder stir and mix the “batch.” Used principally for black stocks to keep the light, blick pigment enclosed while mixing.

Mansfield Tire and Rubber - The Machine Shop

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A complete machine shop – Boring Mills, Lathes, Milling Machines, Presses, everything needed for making repairs – keeps up the equipment to keep the factory running night and day.

Mansfield Tire and Rubber - The Factory

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A view of the Mansfield Tire Co. warehouse. Circa 1920

Mansfield Tire and Rubber - Row of Hand Building Tire Stands

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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

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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 - Preparing Rubber Stock

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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 - Philip H. Ober

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Philip H. Ober – Vice-President of the Mansfield Tire and Rubber Company.

Mansfield Tire and Rubber - Office Workers

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

Mansfield Tire and Rubber - Jesse S. Wainwright

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