Tire Building 1934
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ค. 2024
- I grew up in Akron, Ohio the Rubber Capital of the World" during the 1950s and 1960s. My grandfathers both worked in the tire building and rubber manufacturing plants, as did my mother and most of my uncles. During the late nineteenth century, Ohio emerged as the leader of rubber production in the United States. Numerous rubber companies operated in or near Akron, Ohio. Among the large-scale rubber producers to have factories in the area were the B.F. Goodrich Company, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. The advent of the bicycle and then automobiles allowed these companies to earn tremendous wealth. B. F. Goodrich manufactured tires under the Brunswick name as the Brunswick Tire Company the focus of this clip. In 1913, the State of Ohio published a detailed study of the risk to health discovered in the rubber and tire industry. The hazards included varying temperature, dust, fatigue, hours of labor, opportunity for contracting communicable disease, as well as the effect of all the poisonous substances used in rubber manufacture. Lead poisoning was found as was cases of aniline poisoning. There was much ill health resulting from benzine vapors in many plants where tire building is done without precautions against those vapors. Workers in these departments complain chiefly of headache, dizziness, and stupefaction. Anemia was often seen due to the chronic effect of the benzine. The risk of carbon disulphide poisoning in cold vulcanizing was great. Ohio firms produced more than one-third of the tires and approximately thirty percent of all other rubber products used in the United States in the 1950s. The corporate offices of five of the six largest tire companies in the United States were located in Akron in 1950. In September 1935, a national convention of rubber workers met and organized the United Rubber Workers of America (URW). Convention delegates elected Sherman Dalrymple president and dedicated the URW international union to the betterment of working conditions for rubber workers and all working men and women. In 1950, more than 130 different companies manufactured rubber in Ohio. These firms employed more than eighty-five thousand workers and most were members of the URW with good contracts and decent middle class wages and benefits. The URW was the first union to have an industrial hygienist on staff to help to identify hazards and support the URWs efforts to improve the health and safety of rubber workers. In 1971 a pioneering agreement between the United Rubber Workers and the BF Goodrich Company had the Department of Industrial Hygiene at Harvard to conduct research on occupational health, industrial hygiene, and occupational epidemiology in the rubber-tire industry. Over a period of ten years, this work created a detailed picture of health effects in the industry and led to many improvements in health and safety. The principal adverse health effects found were cancer and respiratory effects (reductions in pulmonary function, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and other respiratory symptoms).For more, go to the NIOSH report at www.cdc.gov/niosh/rubberhr.html . This is clipped from the 1934 film, Under the Tread, available at the Internet Archives.
I was an industrial engineer at Akron’s BF Goodrich tire plant in the 60s and 70s. Good video! Tires were a little different but in general made the same way. Today much more is automated and hardly and hands on work is now done.
I grew up in Akron as well - Goodrich 3 plants, Goodyear two plants, Firestone two plants, Sieberling one plant, Mohawk one plant, General one plant and Kelly Springfield one plant....in addition, most of the molds, Banburys and other machines were built in Akron by several other companies and used by ALL the rubber companies in America........WE BUILT TIRES
My great grandfather worked at Goodyear Akron for 24 years died at age 50. Geyza tomayko came from Czechoslovakia when he was 16 I’d love to learn more about him. Great video thanks
Thank you! I lived in Akron for a few years and never knew that some of my ancestors from W. Virginia had moved there. One was a great-great aunt (or something) who worked at Good Year - in the tube shop. Found this out while doing genealogy research. She died in 1974 and worked there a long time - Sarah Sally Rockhold. Somehow she lived tto be 80 around all those chemcials. i can't imagine.
My dad worked at BF Goodrich on the airplane shutes. He worked from 1972 till he was laid off in 1989.
Thanks for your observation, wchouse3. Most of my family worked in the rubber shops of Akron Ohio in the 1950s to 1970s. Several of my uncles were tire builders too. Thanks for the hard work you do.
I wonder why there is not a simpler way to make tyres by now. So many workers working so hard yet all forgotten
Thank you for this great historical video!
I bet parts of that plant smelled like heaven. New rubber, that should be a Christmas tree scent. I was looking at our unrestored 1931 Studebaker truck's tires. A couple Good Year All-Season 20x6 6ply, and a few Dunlop Cord 20x6 8ply tires. We think that we have one original tire for this truck? It may be a Kelsey "Balloon" black wall? All that can be read is the "Balloon" on the sidewall. These old tires spent their life hauling wheat from a 1927 model 34 and 1929 model 36 Holt combine, and then hauled into the local grain elevator in NE. It's neat to see how these tires were made back then.
I grew up off of Kelly ave in Akron & as a kid we could smell the rubber all day and night & could even hear the lunch whistle etc.
Thanks for posting, John. My grandmother lived on Kelly Ave in the 1950s to 1990s. She lived next to the old city landfill, which closed in the mid 1960s.
@@markdcatlin yeah. It joy park community park and recreation now. When they dug it up to build the park the landfill stinch could be smelled all over east Akron .
I work for sumitumo. I'm a millwright on the curing press lines. I was also a Steamfitter. So we use a lot of steam here. I love my job and proud to have it. And the pay is very nice
Awesome video. I live in Akron (Goodyear Heights actually) and pass Goodyear H.Q. everyday on the way to work. Sadly almost all the rubber industry is gone. Silver lining is that air quality is much nicer.
Thanks - I grew up in south Akron and had cousins who lived in Goodyear Heights. I recall the summer air pollution in the early 1970s - it would burn your lungs from the ozone.
We called that rubberized air!
It's all going to China hey? You can order Cummings 4BT and 6BT diesel engines and a number of Honda and Toyota engines from China. They just copy everything. How did they go from opium addicted rice farmers to industrial production inside of 20 years? Banksters, that's how. They like the slave labor wages and not having to employ R&D.
Loved the video and history
nice video...do you know the manufacturer of the wrapping machine at minute 1:58 ?
Akron, Ohio the Rubber Capital of the World" after Birmingham, England, Gt Britain... just have a look at the name cast into the m/c at 2.42...
is this the building on Morgan St
Lol I work at Goodyear/Dunlop in Buffalo. Nothing has changed
Not anymore you don't it's Sumito tire now
@@RBnd-te6ez it's been sumitumo scince 1985. They finally took it over and invested in over half a billion dollars into it.
I build tractor tires for Trelleborg - process is pretty much the same, just bigger tires. Surprising how little has changed in all that time.
Akron, Ohio the Rubber Capital of the World" after Birmingham, England, Gt Britain
Lol they probably made .68 cents an hour
Lmc peru