Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane works away stiff-legged and importantly over the rough ground. Like an ill-tempered old somebody awakened too early, she shrugs her shoulders from side to side as each wheel sinks into...
...halt when Gillette Rubber Co. (tires & tubes) was shut down by a strike for better working conditions by employe-members of C. I. O.'s United Rubber Workers. Still idle in Detroit at week's end were 5,000 parts-making employes of Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co., 600 of Aluminum Co. of America...
Looking like a giant's roller skate (see cut), the Marsh Buggy has an ordinary Ford V-8 motor coupled to a McCormick Deering tractor gear box and mounted on an expanded automobile frame. The four wheels are air-tight aluminum drums on which are mounted the largest rubber tires ever made for commercial use. Designed by Goodyear, they are 10 ft. high, 3 ft. wide, have a normal pressure of 6 lb. per sq. in. Both axles are pivoted so that each wheel can rise two feet without distorting the frame. There are ten forward speeds, six reverse...
Navin, Briggs and Kelsey became good friends, and when Mr. Navin's partner died in 1918 Walter Briggs, president of Briggs Mfg. Co., and John Kelsey, who had built up Kelsey Wheel Co., each bought a quarter interest in the Tigers, but allowed Navin full control of the club...
...proof of the longview value of a six-day rider's lot is the fact that in the professionsons often follow in their fathers' wheel-marks. Jimmy Walthour and his Cousin Bobby are sons of turn-of-the-Century bicycle racers...