Tire process

These photos I found in the many fine awesome: My grandfather,   Frank G. Schenuit started the Schenuit Tire company.

And when they started to make tires they imported rubber form overseas from Indochina . The tire process started in Indochina on rubber Plantations (Please watch Indochine” the movie with Catherine Denouvre)

and the sap the rubber tree was used (harvested ) to make the tire.  They would slice the trees and make the sap run 

 

I remember bales of rubber coming into the plant on the railroad car . For those bales, 3 by 3 by4 foot, they would make it into runner for cars by crushing the rubber in huge rollers 

 

Then they would form it into a round product and place nylon and later steel threads 

Then they would place them in molds below

and after heating the tire it would come out 

and then be shipped to dealers 

So Schenuit was the 7th largest in the United Sates

 tom and I bought the franchise after Schenuit Tire was sold and then we sold it later and then later Dayton Tire sun down the name