GENERAL TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY COLLECTION
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Repository: University of Akron Archival Services
Title: GENERAL TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY COLLECTION
Dates: 1940-1973
Extent: Approx. 300 reels of microfilm and 100 cubic feet.
Creator: General Tire and Rubber Company
Language: English
Access: Collection is open for research.
Finding Aid prepared by: Archival Staff, August 22, 1991
Revised by: Richard Wisneski, July 25, 2007
Related Material:
Administrative History:
Scope and Content:
The General Tire and Rubber Company Collection, ca 1940-1973, includes court records, exhibits, technical reports, manufacturers literature, and other material, both original and microfilm, relating to legal proceedings concerning oil-extended rubber patents. Approx. 300 reels of microfilm and 100 cubic feet.
Arrangement:
- Microfilm
- Court Records (Box 1-63)
- Miscellaneous Materials (Box 64-99)
Container List:
I. MICROFILM
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Documents (correspondence, technical reports,memoranda, lab reports, journal articles, etc.).
#1-14, 800
14 reels with a digest.
General Tire & Rubber Company
Documents (correspondence, technical reports, memoranda, lab reports, journal articles, etc., most of which date from 1941-1951).
# A-000001 to # A-099780: 90 reels with index
Deposition reports. Documents are numbered, but in no apparent order; so value of index is limited.
2 reels.
16mm reels. Documents are numbered, but they do not follow any order. Index of limited value.
13 reels.
Washington Documents (pertaining to legal case #1806-57, General et al. vs. Watson.)
#W-000001 to #W-006886.
7 reels with index.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Documents (correspondence, technical reports, memoranda, lab reports, journal articles, etc.).
# G-00001 to # G-183774.
74 reels with a digest (digest is not complete)
United States Rubber Company
Documents (correspondence, technical reports, memoranda, lab reports, journal articles, etc.).
#U-000001 to U-115,896
89 reels with index (index is not complete; e.g., it does not cover documents 63,740 to 87,405 or 98,463 to 103,302).
Commission Internationale des Industries Agricoles: One reel about the German chemical
industry during and after World War II. In French. No index.
National Archives
One reel on Military Security, German Artillery Weapons, and the German
Rubber industry during World War II. No index.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
General files division, Rubber Reserve Company: Original agreements and documents of Office of Rubber Reserve, 1942-47, filed numerically.
6 reels.
Office of Rubber Reserve: Subject files, filed alphabetically. (correspondence and memoranda thru April 15, 1951).
17 reels.
Synthetic Rubber: 2 reels. Small index for all R.F.C. reels.
Shell Development Company
Small roll of documents pertaining to the Shell Development Company and the Rubber Industry.
# SE 002782 - SE 002877
Oliver Tire
Small roll of documents
Office of Rubber Reserve
From the General Services Administration. Federal Records Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Formulae and mixing specifications for continental(?) plant in Germany. Some in German. Two rolls.
# 21 B 131,222 - 132,717
# 22 B 132,718 - 132,770
II. COURT RECORDS (Box 1-63)
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. and McCreary Tire and Rubber Co. vs. General Tire and Rubber Co.
In the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. No. 12932 Civil. Baltimore, Maryland. 1964-66.
Box 1-3: Indexes
Box 4: Case Transcripts, pp. 1-2482
Box 5: Case Transcripts, pp. 2483-5134
Box 6: Case Transcripts, pp. 5135-7549
Box 7: Case Transcripts, pp. 7550-10145
Box 8: Case Transcripts, pp. 10146-12718
Box 9: Case Transcripts, pp. 12719-15081
Box 10: Case Transcripts, pp. 15082-17607
Box 11: Case Transcripts, pp. 17608-20172
Box 12: Case Transcripts, pp. 20173-22682
Box 13: Case Transcripts, pp. 22683-25309
Box 14: Case Transcripts, pp. 25310-28020
Box 15: Case Transcripts, pp. 28021-30693
Box 16: Case Transcripts, pp. 30694-33303
Box 17: Case Transcripts, pp. 33304-35706
Box 18: Case Transcripts, pp. 35707-38299
Box 19: Witness Testimony: Dinsmore-Hadlock and Greer
Box 20: Witness Testimony: Hadlock and Greer-Tanni
Box 21: Witness Testimony: Meyer-Street
Box 22: Witness Testimony: Street-Tegroetenhuis
Box 23: Witness Testimony: Trainer-Wilke
Box 24: Plaintiff's Exhibits: PX 1001-PX 1085
Box 25: Plaintiff's Exhibits: PX 1086-PX 1181
Box 26: Plaintiff's Exhibits: PX 1182-PX 1384
Box 27: Plaintiff's Exhibits: PX 1385-PX 1718
Box 28: Plaintiff's Exhibits: PX 1719-PX 1903
Box 29: Plaintiff's Exhibits: PX 1904-PX 2101
Box 30: Defendant's Exhibits: DX 1001-DX 1082
Box 31: Defendant's Exhibits: DX 1086-DX 1178
Box 32: Defendant's Exhibits: DX 1179-DX 1265
Box 33: Defendant's Exhibits: DX 1266-DX 1403
Box 34: Defendant's Exhibits: DX 1404-DX 1540
Box 35: Defendant's Exhibits: DX 1541-DX 1825
Box 36: Defendant's Exhibits: DX 1700-DX 2182
Box 37: Defendant's Exhibits: DX 2048-DX 2183;AI-CVI
Box 38: Defendant's Exhibits: DX CVII-FII
Box 39: Defendant's and Plaintiff's interrogations and answers; Appendix Exhibits AA - ZZ
COURT RECORDS -
Firestone-McCreary vs. General (cont.)
Box 40: Defendant's and Plaintiff's files, 1941-51
Box 41-42: Trial Abstracts
Box 43: Misc.
OTHER CASES
Box 45-48 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; General vs. Firestone and Firestone vs. General; Appeals cases #72-2123 thru #72-2126
Box 45 Appendices: I-XIV
Box 46 Appendices: XV-XXVI
Box 47 Appendices: XXVII-XXXVII
Box 48 Appendices: XL-XLIII
Brief of Appellee
Box 49 U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division.
General vs. Goodyear. Civil Action No. 36564.
General vs. U.S. Rubber. Civil Action No. 36565.
Box 50 U.S. District Court for the Northern District of
to Ohio, Eastern Division.
Box 51 General vs. Firestone. Civil Action No. 36799.
General vs. U.S.Rubber. Civil Action No. C 67-206.
Box 52 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. General et al. vs. Robert C.Watson, Commissioner of Patents. Civil Action No. 1806-57.
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Phillips Petroleum Co. vs. David L. Ladd, Commissioner of Patents. Civil Action No. 2096-61.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. General vs. The Honorable R. Dorsey Watkins. No. 10993 and 10429.
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. General vs. U.S.A. No. 14333 Civil. February 27, 1963.
U.S. Supreme Court.
General vs. The Honorable R.Dorsey Watkins.
October term, 1963.
Firestone vs. General and The Honorable R. Dorsey Watkins, October term 1966.
Firestone vs. General. October 1970. No. 1185.
Box 53 CANADA. Supreme Court of Canada.
General vs. Dominion Rubber Co. and Phillips Petroleum Co.
Box 54 ENGLAND. General vs. Firestone et al.
Box 55-60 SOUTH AFRICA. Supreme Court of South Africa.; Gentiruco A.G. vs. Firestone South Africa.
Box 55-56 Argument, Notes, Judgment Vol.1-10
Box 57 Vol. 11-21
Box 58 Vol. 22-30
Box 59 Vol. 31-41
Box 60 Vol. 42-50
Application for review
Box 61 Miscellaneous documents
Box 62 Document indexes
Box 63 Miscellaneous indexes
III. MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS (Box 64-99)
Box 64 German Rubber Industry:
1. Reprints of German articles on rubber
2. German report, "Alterskennzeichung der Fertigerzeugnisse, 1929-1955"
3. Master list of "G" and "CN" numbered documents
4. CN documents 1-2687
Box 65 German Rubber Industry:
CN documents 2688-5686
Box 66 German Rubber Industry:
Photocopies, some or all of which were made by Allied Intelligence, of German rubber reports made during World War II
Box 67 German Rubber Industry:
1. Photocopies, some or all of which were made by Allied Intelligence, of German rubber reports made during World War II
2. Allied studies and reports on German rubber
Box 68 German Rubber Industry:
1. Digest and translation of some German documents
2. Statements of U.S. foreign policy to Germany in the years 1941-49
3. Technical and other reports on the German rubber industry
Box 69 German Rubber Industry:
1. Six volumes of reports on captured German tires by Smithers Laboratories of Akron, Ohio.
2. Minutes of the I.G. organic chemicals conference at Frankfurt on September 22, 1943 (I.G. Farbenindustrie)
3. Technical reports on Germanrubber
4. Folder (1/2") on "Naftolen"
5. Folder (4") and two booklets on experiments and tests, including photographs, of captured German equipment (tires and weapons) at the Aberdeen Proving Ground
6. Four pamphlets by I.G. Farbenindustrie entitled "Vulkacit"
7. Three folders (1/2") of notes on a 1965 legal meeting in Hannover, Germany
Box 70 German Rubber Industry:
Reports on various German rubber companies and their research into synthetic rubber
Box 71 German Rubber Industry:
More reports on German Rubber companies and their research into synthetic rubber
Box 72 German Rubber Industry:
1. 27 printed booklets on the German Rubber Industry, printed by the British Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee
2. Technical experiments by German rubber companies
3. Article from March, 1959 Rubber World magazine on the U.S. Govt. synthetic rubber program
4. German language pamphlets on "Corax L" and "Corax B"
5. American reports on German rubber factories
6. Folder (2") labelled "New Rostler Documents, Originals"
Box 73 German Rubber Industry:
1. Hardbound book, Buna Hills
2. Pamphlet, "Buna S3"
3. Two volumes of "G" numbered documents 1-764 (see master list in Box 58)
4. Notebooks of "Fabrication notices" and "compound book pages"
5. Two volume chronological survey of Sparbuna reports
6. Folder (2") of U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey reports on German Rubber Companies
Box 74 American Society of Testing and Materials:
Pamphlets on the chemical analysis of rubber products
British Standards Institution:
Glossary of terms used in the rubber industry
Chrysler Corporation, Engineering Division. "Rubber and Synthetic Rubber", 1944
Copolymer Corporation:
One folder (2") of correspondence, reports, and various other documents (see also Lakeshore Tire and Rubber Co. and Firestone)
Esso Laboratories:
Minutes of a technical meeting dated 6-17-1942
Firestone Tire & Rubber Company:
1. Firestone annual reports for 1960-64, 1967
2. Folder (1") of Firestone technical articles written by employees and price lists
Box 74 Firestone Tire & Rubber Company (Cont'd):
3. Firestone Board of Directors meeting minutes, 9-21-1954
4. Technical papers of Firestone with other companies:
a. Copolymer Corporation
b. Shell Oil Company
c. United Gas Improvement Company
5. Folder (1") labeled "Firestone Papers", most of which are technical
6. Firestone Tire Test folder
7. Volume labeled, "McCoy Breakdown of old Firestone Documents"
8. Volume I, 1937-41 of Firestone documents which were "Given to L.M.B." (Labor Management Board?)
9. William K.Taft documents:
a. deposition and abstract
b. two folders, mostly technical papers, labeled "Firestone Taft"
10. Firestone technical papers (3")
11. Pamphlet, "Synthetic Rubber mechanical parts in present and post war vehicles".
Box 75 General Tire & Rubber Company
1. Legal Documents
a. Folder (4") of letters, notes, etc., on the lawsuit of Firestone & McCreary vs. General (case #12932)
b. Folder (4") of various letters, notes, etc., on the lawsuit of General Tire vs. U.S.A. (Appeals Case #14353)
c. Folder (1")of various letters, notes, etc., from the General vs. R.D. Watkins Appeals Case
d. Small index of court exhibits in case #12932 (Firestone & McCreary vs. General)
e. Two large notebooks (6") with notes on the patent case involving General Tire and Gentiruco of South Africa
f. Notebook of affidavits from the 1967 General Tire lawsuit in the English High Courts of Justice at London
g. Digest of documents used at case #12932 (Firestone & McCreary vs. General)
h. Outline of proceedings at the London Commission, June, 1967
i. "Witness Map" of days on the stand, miles travelled, homes, etc. of those witnesses who testified in case #12932
j.List of those lawsuits fought over the General Tire patent rights to oil-extended rubber
Box 76 General Tire & Rubber Company
1. General Tire annual reports for 1948, 62
2. Microfilm list of those documents that were filmed at General and Goodyear
3.Technical report labeled, "Budene-Natsyn Presentation"
4. Report on the financial proceedings at General's Baytown Plant in Texas
5. Digest of documents which were taken from files at Odessa, Texas
6. Notebook of General Tire's offers to license to private corporations its oil-extended rubber patent
7. Notebook of "Guster analysis of Research contract"
8. Notebook of correspondence about German legal depositions, 1961-65
9. Notebook labeled "Corres. Re: K-3 cannon and Tires and Tech. Inst. 63"
10.Notebook of General Tire chemical division price lists for 1963
11. Notebook of documents labeled merely Photostats-General Tire"
12. Booklet, "The Identification of rubber compounding ingredients using thin layer chromatography"
13. Small folder of misc. General Tire correspondence
14. Development Report # 546-CS, 2/2/37
15. Development Report #1366-CS, 7/30/42
Box 77 General Tire & Rubber Company
1. Box labeled "General Tire documents"
a. fleet operations meeting minutes
b. tire test results
c. workings of technical problems
2. Box labeled "Polymerization, Abrasion Testing", which includes seven technical reports on this
Golden Bear Oil Company:
Eight pamphlets and two photocopies of articles by Golden Bear on experimentation with oil into synthetic rubbers
B.F.Goodrich Tire & Rubber Company:
1. Folder(1") labeled "Goodrich Documents"
2. Annual reports for 1960-61
3. Goodrich "Hycar" manuals
4. Folder on "Ameripol"
5. Folder (2") on Goodrich technical and progress reports
Box 78 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company:
1. Annual reports for 1960-62, 64
2. Book entitled,"Abstracts of later Goodyear production"
3. Small folder (less than 1") of technical articles which were written by Goodyear employees
Houdry Process Corporation:
Report: Pilot plant design for batch production. Industry synthetic tire test station - final reports A.1-20
Lake Shore Tire & Rubber Company:
1. Notebook of Sears Technical Conference Data, July 9-11, 1945
2. Booklet of notes on tire experimentation and other data from the Sears Technical Conference, held at Chicago, February 23-25, 1948
3. Data from a technical meeting, held in June, 1947, for the Copolymer Corporation
Manufacturing Chemists' Association, Inc.:
Book entitled, "Metallic Soaps"
Natural Rubber Producers Research Association:
Published reports on experiments. (Includes #442-445, 453, 455, 458, 461-465, 467, 469, 471-474, 476, 482, 483, 485-489, 503, 508-510, 512 & 513)
Rubber Reserve Co.:
Book entitled, "Interim Report to Rubber Reserve Co. on Water Corrosion Problems & Corrective Measures..."
Sears-Roebuck & Company:
1. Minutes of a tire meeting at San Antonio, Texas on January 29-31, 1945
2. (See also Lake Shore Tire & Rubber Company)
Shell Oil Company:
1. Technical report entitled, "The Influence of Mixing Conditions on 'Computed Mooney'"
2. (See also Firestone Tire & Rubber Company)
Box 79 V.C.Smithers, Inc.:
Seventeen reports on tires (see Box 69)
Texus-U.S. Chemical Company:
1. Sixty-Four bulletins of technical data
2. Article on Butadiene Rubber by employees of the company
United Carbon Company, Inc.:
Technical Report
United States Rubber Company:
1. Annual reports for 1961-62
2. Two technical reports made at the Detroit and Naugatuck, Conn. plants:
a. "Effect of GR-S variables on low temperature properties"
b. "The nature and significance of the forces of Deformation in raw elastomers"
3. "Howland-U.S. file History":
Volume of photocopies which relate to Louis H. Howland and his invention of compounding synthetic rubber
Wilmington Chemical Corporation:
1. Photocopies of requisition forms, materials, etc. used in experiments; also included are telegrams and other correspondence
2. Reprints of articles on rubber written by Wilmington employees
3. Photocopies of newspaper articles
4. Technical reports
5. "Gruber File"
a. Technical report on "Buna"
b. British patent specification on "Improvements relating to plasticized synthetic rubber"
Box 80 Phillips Petroleum Company:
1. 4 folders (8") labeled "Phillips Documents," most of which are technical reports and correspondence
2. Volume labeled, "Phillips documents and digest"
3. Booklet entitled, "Philprene Polymers"
4. Folder (1/4") on "Philprene Polymers"
5. Folder (1/4") on "Sundex 53 and Philback O"
6. Oberfell file
7. Article "Recent Synthetic Rubber"
Seiberling Tire & Rubber Company:
1. Large folder (5") of reports and technical papers
2. Development Report #531-Cs 12/21/36
3. Development Report #555-Cs 3/25/37
Box 81 Government Agencies:
A. Federal Facilities Corporation
1. Minutes of Safety & Fire Prevention Conference at Houston, Texas, Sept. 1954
2. List of "Defense plant corporation records of synthetic rubber plants to be held in connection with the national security clause in the sale of the rubber plants by Rubber Producing Facilities Disposal Commission and/or Federal Facilities Corporation"
3. Folder (1/2") of technical reports, charts & correspondence
B. Bureau of Mines - Synthetic Rubber in Production from Petroleum, Coal and Other Materials
C. Office of the Attorney General
1. Seventh report of the Attorney General on Competition in the Synthetic Rubber Industry, 61
2. First report, 1956
3. Second report, 1957
4. Fourth report, 1959
5. Fifth report, 1960
6. Sixth report, 1960
7. Eighth report, 1962
8. Ninth report, 1963
9. Tenth report, 1964
D. National Academy of Science - Joint Army-Navy-Air Force Conference on Eastomer Research and Development
E. Rubber Producing Facilities Disposal Commission
1. Report to Congress: Recommending disposal of the government owned synthetic rubber plant at Baytown, Texas, June, 1955
2. Supplement of the above
3. Brochure of agreements relating to patent rights, technical information, etc., in connection with the sale of government owned rubber producing facilities
4. Report on government owned synthetic rubber facility - Plancor 983 A, Port Neches, Texas
5. a. Report on government owned synthetic rubber facility-Plancor 1056, Lake Charles, La.
b. Request for patent papers re Plancor 1056
6. Report to Congress recommending disposal of government owned synthetic rubber facilities
F. United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
1. Patent appeal docket #6256 in the matter of the application of Walter A. Schultze and William B. Reynolds
G. U.S. Department of Commerce: Bureau of the Census
1. Folder (2") of "Current Industrial Reports" on rubber supply and distribution for the U.S., 1961-66
2. First to seventh Annual Reports on Rubber (1949-55)
H. United States Patent Office
1. Folder (1") file history of the Fritz S. Rostler and Vilma Mehner Wilson abandoned U.S. application #472, 474
2.Folder (1") labeled "copies of Pfau et al Patent"
3. Folder (1") of various rubber related patents and other related documents
4. Folder (2") labeled "Frank J. Soday" which contains copies of patents and other documents from the patent office
5. Application for a patent under international arrangements for a patent on "Pneumatic tires and a method of making the same"
6. Two charts which pertain to the synthetic rubber patents
a. The patent and its concepts
b. Name codes
I. United States Congress
1. Senate
a. Report on the proceedings: Hearing held before preparedness subcommittee of the committee on armed forces, Sept. 15, 1950
b. Synthetic Rubber: A case study in technological
development under government direction, 1959
c. Staff report: Problems of independent tire dealers, 1953
d. Report: Disposal of Rubber Plants, 1953
e. Hearings before the subcommittee on rubber of the select committee on small business, 1951
2. Congressional Record
a. August 16, 1950
b. March 24, 1952
J. United States Tariff Commission
Pamphlet on rubber, report #6 of the "War Changes in Industry" series
K. War Production Board:Office of the Rubber Director
1. GEL content: tests for in synthetic rubber
2. Folder (1") Minutes Copolymer Process Development
3. Pamphlet: Progress Report #1, 1942
4. Special Report on the Synthetic Rubber Program, 1944
L. Miscellaneous:
1. Pamphlet: "How to make your own tread rubber" by K.W. Batchelor
2. "George Kosta's Laboratory Notebook" (1")
Box 82 Office of Rubber Reserve
1. Letter from W.S. Ritter to Leonard J. Ralston, General Counsel-Office of the Rubber Reserve, regarding synthetic Rubber
Recommendations of the President, dated January 14, 1950
2. Copolymer Documents
a. "Volume #1 Unimportant"
b. "Volume #2 Unimportant"
c. Third volume labeled only "Copolymer Doc."
3. Notebook of "New Polymers Authorized by Rubber Reserve"
4. Volume: "Rubber Reserve Experimental Grade of G.R.S." March 27,
1944 list with supplements to April 9, 1952. (Supplement #85x-706)
5. Government Tire Testing Program summary report, April 30, 1951
6. Folder (4") labeled "Oil extended Rubber"
7. Booklet labeled "New Polymers Authorized by rubber Reserve" x-393 authorized May 29, 1947 through x-767 authorized November 22, 1954
8. Booklet of Rubber Reserve research and development management committee meeting minutes #1-15 and terminal report
Box 83 Office of Rubber Reserve
9. Rubber Reserve Laboratory manual: Part 5, "Properties of Material"
10. Rubber Reserve Tire Test Reports
a. test #AA d. test #4709
b. test #AG e. test #4751
c. test #126
11. Minutes of Research and Development Management Committee, 1946-47
12. Rubber Reserve Technical Committee meeting minutes, Jan-Nov., 1942
13. Compounders' Committee:
a. Volume: Gov't. Synthetic Rubber Reports. Compounders Committee Reports Vol I, minutes of meetings 1942-44
b.Vol. 3-5 of Govt. synthetic rubber reports, compounders committee, April 13-August 3, 1942
c.Compounders Committee Reports, Vol. 6
d.Compounders Committee Reports, Vol.6-7, October, 1942
e.Compounders Committee Reports, Vol. 8, April-May, 1943
f.Compounders Committee Reports, Vol. 8-9
g.Compounders Committee Reports, Vol. 10, October-December, 1943
h.Folder(1 1/2") of minutes of committee meetings, 1942-43
i.Folder(1 1/4") of minutes of a December 6, 1946 meeting labeled, "Possible Rebuttal"
j.Folder (1/2") of minutes of a December 26, 1942 meeting
k.Folder (5") of documents labeled "Compounders' Committee Materials"
Box 84 Office of Rubber Reserve
14. Operating Committee
a. Folder (3") of operating committee meeting minutes, 1942-48
b. Folder (2") of minutes of meetings of plant revisions subcommittee, 1945-46
c.Folder (2") of minutes of meetings of plant revisions subcommittee, 1944-46
d. Folder (1") of operating committee meeting minutes, 1943-44
e.Folder (1 1/2") of minutes of the subcommittee on minor equipment changes, 1943-44
f.Folder (1") of minutes of meetings of subcommittee on specificationsand test methods, 1945
g.Folder (3") of minutes of meetings of subcommittee on specifications and test methods, 1943-46
15. Polymer Development Committee
a.Folder (1") of minutes of meetings
b.Folder (2") of minutes of meetings, 1945-46
16. Technical Committee
a. Folder (1") of minutes of meetings, 1946
b. Folder (1") of minutes of meetings, 1946
c. Folder (1") of minutes of meetings, 1951
17. Folder (2") of contract specifications for synthetic rubbers
18. Folder (1/2") of Rubber Reserve circulars
Box 85 Office of Rubber Reserve
19. Fifteen Folders (total 5") of reports on various projects. Included are project number: AA, AE, AF, AH, AI, AK, AL, AM, p-1, GTF, 120, A02, 126, 129, 131, 132, and 152
20. Booklet: "Specifications for Government Synthetic Rubbers" 1947
21. Notebook: "Specifications for Government Synthetic Rubber, Revised Edition," 1945-51
22. Notebook: "Specifications for current GRS Synthetic Rubber (no date)
23. Folder (3") of various technical reports and circulars
24. Tablet of monthly progress reports to Rubber Reserve, 1945-66
25. Folder (2") labeled "GR-S and Black Specifications"
26. Folder (1") of polymer research discussions
27. Rubber Reserve "General Sales and Distribution Circular: Natural and Synthetic Rubber, July 1, 1945"
28. Minutes, progress reports, and summaries of meetings of the committee for better synthetics for tires, 1949-1959 (1" folder)
29. Folder (1") with Rubber Reserve's report on the rubber program, 1940-45
30. Folder (1/2") of misc.correspondence
31. Folder (1/4") of misc. progress reports, correspondence & minutes
32. Folder (1/4") of technical committee reports and Earley reports by Rubber Reserve
33. Folder (1") of Rubber Reserve summary cards
34. Folder (1 1/2") of Research and Development Management Committee minutes of meetings, reports, etc.
35. Report on the Rubber Program, 1940-45
36. Synthetic Rubber for Artic Zone Use - Research Requirements Survey
Box 86 Reconstruction Finance Corporation
1. S.T.C. Committee (Synthetic Tire Commission) report on management.
Report#3, dated Feb 25, 1944
2. Office od Synthetic Rubber
a. Technical report on oil migration
b. Volume "Specifications for Government Synthetic Rubbers – Revised edition, October 1, 1952"
c. Research and Development Division: minutes of meeting XXIX of the Polymer Development, Washington, January 1953
d. Research and Development Division: minutes of meeting XXX of the Polymer Development, New York, May, 1953
e. Three volumes of abstracts of technical papers from the government synthetic rubber program, 1942-53
f. Summary reports: Government Tire Testing Program
1. Calendar year 1952
2. Calendar year 1953
g. 1951 Annual Report and Financial Statement
h. Laboratory Manual, Stand and GRS Volume III
i. Manual of administrative Procedure
3. Folder (1") of R.F.C. specifications for synthetic rubbers
4. Report to the Congress on synthetic rubber operations, June 30, 1954, by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in Liquidation
Box 87
5. R.F.C. Advisory Committee
a.Minutes of meetings #1-25
b.Volume of approved and unapproved minutes
6. Folder (4") labeled "Atlanta Chronology: Contracts-Agreements"
7. Folder (2) of production records of synthetic rubber production, March, 1952-July 1955
8. Folder (2") of minutes of meetings:
a. OP-R Committee meeting, November 12, 1951
b. Operating committee meeting minutes, Washington, November 11, 1949
c. Operating committee meeting minutes, Washington, July 11, 1950
d. Polymer Development committee, February 1952
9. A History of the U.S. Government's Natural and Synthetic Rubber Programs, 1941-55
Box 88 National Archives and Library of Congress Certified Documents
Two folders (total 11") of various reports, correspondence, etc., for the year 1947 which pertain to the government rubber industry
Box 89 National Archives and Library of Congress Certified Documents
Three folders (total 12") of various reports, correspondence, etc., for the years 1948, 49 and 1950
Box 90 National Archives and Library of Congress Certified Documents
Two folders (total 9") of documents for the year 1951 and one folder (2") for the year 1953
Box 91 National Archives and Library of Congress Certified Documents
1. Three folders (total 4") of documents for the years 1954, 55, 56 and '57
2. Volume: G.S.A. certified documents #R-001001 to R-001406
3. Notebook: "Dayton Production"
4. Volume: G.S.A. documents #1002-1182
Box 92 National Archives and Library of Congress Certified Documents Four Folders (total 12")
1. Various documents of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
2. Minutes of R.F.C. meetings and some technical papers
3. Folder labeled "Misuse Case"
4. Folder of government specifications, technical papers, etc.
Box 93 National Archives and Library of Congress Certified Documents Five Folders (total 12")
1. Legal materials, correspondence, technical papers, etc.
2. G.S.A. documents #1835-2086
3. Folder of documents on patents and the committee on patents in the U.S. Senate
4. Documents on patent hearings
5. Misc. documents of the Federal Facilities Corporation and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Box 94 National Archives and Library of Congress Certified Documents Thirteen small volumes of National Archives documents
1. G.S.A. documents #R-000001 to R-000539
2. G.S.A. documents #R-000601 to R-000952
3. G.S.A. documents #0000 to 0158
4. G.S.A. documents #0159 to 0305
5. G.S.A. documents #0306 to 0435
6. G.S.A. documents #0436 to 0592
7. G.S.A. documents #0593 to 0751
8. G.S.A. documents #0752 to 0898
9. G.S.A. documents #0899 to 1009
10. G.S.A. documents #0800 to 0904, incomplete
11. G.S.A. documents #0810 to 0813, 0907 to 0964
12. G.S.A. documents #1035 to 1040, 0721 to 0799, incomplete
13. G.S.A. documents "cover sheets" incomplete
Box 95 National Archives and Library of Congress Certified Documents
1. Report labeled "CCX-46"
2. Folder (2") containing government technical studies
3. Two folders (total 3")
a. Certified documents #104 to 127
b. Documents #R-000001 to R-001834
Box 96 Legal Materials
1. Folder (3") of legal correspondence, reports, etc.
2. Folder (1") of materials relating to legal cases that General Tire was not involved in
3. Three volumes of chronologically arranged documents April, 1951 to December, 1965
4. Notebook (2") of documents labeled "Plaintiff's Ex.6"
5. Notebook labeled "P.B. Reports"
6. Notebook of various legal notes
7. Folder (1") labeled "Exhibit Book"
8. Folder (1/2") of materials relating to the South African court cases
9. Folder (1/4") labeled "Infringement Proof from Acetone Extract"
Box 97 Legal Materials
10. Notebook labeled "Opponents' Affidavits"
11. Notebook labeled "G.T. exhibits: Darby, Jord, Day, ACLD, Knowlton, FWC, evid in chief"
12. Folder (L1/2") "1961-62 Litigation on oil extended rubber"
13. Folder (1") "Depositions July-Sept., 1970 Semon, Soday, Rostler, J.G.Mark"
14. Folder (1") labeled "W.T. Cooper, Charles M.Tucker: of misc. correspondence, notes, etc.
15. Folder (1") "Saxby Notebook, Jan., 1962"
16. Two Folders (total 3") misc. legal documents
Box 98 Miscellaneous
1. Twenty Six folders (total 12") of various technical reports and other documents chronologically arranged 1930-1964
Box 99 Miscellaneous
2. Magazines
a. Natural Rubber News, 1958-1964
b. VW Safer Motoring, 1965-66
3. Articles
a. Various photocopies of magazine articles which pertain to the rubber industry
b. Numerous pamphlets and charts on the rubber industry
c. "Seventy-five Year Stretch", reprinted from Rubber World, Oct. 1964
4. Charts: a. Price b. Production
5. Booklet entitled "Prior Art cited in England"
6. Booklet entitled "Fire Hazards in the Plastics Industry"
7. Notebook of unidentified experiments