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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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 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 wonder why there is not a simpler way to make tyres by now. So many workers working so hard yet all forgotten
My dad worked at BF Goodrich on the airplane shutes. He worked from 1972 till he was laid off in 1989.
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 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...
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.
is this the building on Morgan St
Akron, Ohio the Rubber Capital of the World" after Birmingham, England, Gt Britain
Lol they probably made .68 cents an hour
Lmc peru