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[AUTOMOBILES -- FEDERAL RUBBER CO TIRES].Biblio.com

Federal Rubber Company: plant views. Fantastic promotional sales album documenting the Federal Rubber Company in Cudahy Wisconsin the year before the Fisk Rubber Co. full absorbed their subsidiary with 35 original linen-backed silver gelatin photographs revealing their factory processes machinery and workers.

1920réf. 64492Cudahy WI: Federal Rubber Company Fisk Rubber Co. 1920. Oblong 4to. 11 x 7.5 in. 35 linen-backed silver gelatin photographs sized 9.5 x 7 in. mounted on linen hinges all w/ captions w/in negative in manuscript at lower fore-edge of image. Contemporary textured flexible calf Henn Company post-binder nickel-plated screwposts at gutter margin gilt lettering stamped on front cover some minor scuffing wear hinges split but still sound w/ black linen inner hinges & pastedowns still a VG exemplar w/ all images retaining bright strong contrast. This exceptional souvenir sales photo album captures the Federal Rubber Co. the year before it became wholly absorbed into Fisk Rubber Co. Founded originally in 1911 the company produced solid rubber and pneumatic tires for bicycles Brass Era automobiles & trucks as well as rubber belts rubber flooring and even soles for shoes. The factory located at the corner of Layton & Patrick Cudahy Way operated shifts around the clock advertised under their Federal Extra Gauge Red Tube Double Dable Base Tires and Federal Tires and many other products. These photos depict the “Bike Tire Curing Dept.” Curing and Finishing rooms inner tubes draped stretching off into the distance mountains of boxes holding Federal automobile tires along with machine shop store room finishing rooms featuring a largely female work force calender hard pressure roller machines machine builders and more. The well-composed photographs also depict workers next to giant rubber tire machines vast storage rooms inspecting finished tires waste department wash & dry rubber department mechanical repair department and more. In 1916 Fisk secured shareholder control over Federal Rubber Manufacturing and maintained them as a separate company until after World War I. After 1920 the company became Federal Rubber Co. and would by 1922 be producing 3000 tires a day with 1200 employees. Later prior to World War II in 1940 Fist Rubber co. was entirely taken over by U.S. Rubber and later were transformed into Uniroyal eventually becoming Michelin until 2012. Federal Rubber Company, Fisk Rubber Co., unknown

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[Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company]: Budd, Richard T:Biblio.com

PHOTOGRAPHICALLY-ILLUSTRATED TYPESCRIPT ALBUM DOCUMENTING THE EXPERIENCES OF RICHARD T. BUDD THE LONG-SERVING PLANT MANAGER OF THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY IN THE PHILIPPINES.

1959réf. 56719Almanza Las Piñas Rizal The Philippines. 1959. A Vivid Example of American Economic Colonialism in the Mid-20th Century A unique and large format presentation typescript documenting the facilities services and employees of the Philippine branch of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in 1959 illustrated with almost 200 photographs produced for the twentieth anniversary of the tire plant's manager Richard T. Budd. The photographic scrapbook constitutes an extensive visual record of the facilities and operations of the Goodyear Tire factory in Las Piñas Rizal Philippines and provides an interesting peek into American foreign business practices in the mid-20th century. The album is highlighted by more than 100 large likely professional views of the factory exterior and interior following the tire-making process from raw material through to finished product with many of the images showing Filipino laborers at work. The album also contains a series of eight views of a January 1957 labor dispute. The images are accompanied by detailed typed captions explaining the tire-making process the strike and more. One such annotation reads: "On January 14 1957 the factory tasted its first strike when barrio residents set up a picket allegedly in protest of the alleged unfair hiring procedure of the company. Pickets gathered at the front of the gate while bus loads of employees wait outside for a chance to cross the picket line." The smaller photographs further depict the factory's employees and document health care facilities blood drives a free Christmas lunch company picnics and gatherings awards ceremonies and much more. Several pictures record Budd's contribution as a leader with the local Boy Scout Troop 60 comprised mostly of young Filipino boys. One page containing several photographs documents Goodyear management's donation to a local school; the caption reads: "Aware of its responsibility to the community Management goes to the much neglected barrio school and donates a swing and a slide for school children at play. This page contains the pictures of that donation." Additionally laid-in is a handmade folio greeting card commemorating Budd's twentieth anniversary of employment with a nicely hand-executed title cover featuring a photographic cut-out of a tire filling in the "0" of "20th" a large caricature of Budd in his scouting uniform and includes numerous ink inscriptions from fellow employees likely executives. There are also three additional loose folio sized cards bearing hundreds of ink signatures from the factory workers. Goodyear operated the plant at Las Piñas from 1956 until 2009 in close proximity to the island's robust rubber plantations. The album stands as important extensive and detailed primary source documentation of the international operations labor outsourcing and outreach efforts of an American auto-industry giant in the Asian Pacific during the last years of Eisenhower and immediately preceding U.S. involvement in Vietnam and serves as an important source for the "Americanizing" methods employed by U.S. companies after World War II when newly-opened markets allowed for American corporate expansion around the globe. Large folio. Original blue paper-covered boards brad-bound hand-painted titles on front cover reading: "GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO. OF THE PHILIPPINES LTD. ALMANZA LAS PIÑAS RIZAL." Moderate wear soiling and creasing to boards. Produced on acidic mid-century paper with most leaves chipped or with closed edge tears one leaf detached a couple partially detached. Photographs in generally very nice condition with easily-readable typed annotations. Overall very good. hardcover