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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 - Fabric Preparing Room

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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 - 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 - Inspecting Crude Rubber

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

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 - 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

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