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Description: | This section contains a large number of sales catalogues and service manuals for Goodyear products, including catalogues and tyre buyers guides for various kinds of truck tyres; giant tyres for different types of vehicle; van tyres; tyres for light and heavy haulage vehicles; bus tyres; tyres for tractors and other farm machinery; bulldozers and other construction industry vehicles; carriage tyres; industrial tyres; car, motorcycle and scooter tyres; and aviation products.
There are also a large number of tyre maintenance and repair manuals, containing information and guidance about how to make tyres last longer, particularly during the period during and immediately after the Second World War when there was an extreme shortage of crude rubber; how to prevent accidents caused by poor tyre maintenance; tyre breakdown instructions; tyre inspection procedures; and service booklets and manuals.
The section also includes a number of sales catalogues and service manuals for other Goodyear products including tubes; belts; industrial hose; rims; tyre valves; tractor chains and spark plugs, as well as one advertisement feature for Goodyear 'stick on soles' and one for Pliofilm, the protective covering produced by Goodyear for foodstuffs and other items.
This material was published both in Akron, Ohio, and in England; several later catalogues were published by Goodyear International Corporation. The catalogues and manuals were issued to members of the Goodyear sales team; Goodyear dealers and 'field representatives' who were involved in the sale, repair and advertising of Goodyear products, for distribution to existing or potential customers. Most of the material consists of booklets, but there are also a large number of leaflets and advertisement brochures. Many of these contain detailed technical information about the service loads, dimensions and specifications of the different products. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Temporal: | 1930s-1980s | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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