General Tire & Rubber Company (c. 1960s)

ID: 1510 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University
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General Tire & Rubber Company (c. 1960s)

Dedicated in 1944, General Tire & Rubber Company’s Waco plant was built in conjunction with the Defense Plant Corporation for wartime production. This image shows the main front of the plant as it looked during the mid- to late-1960s. 

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By Geoff Hunt
General Tire & Rubber Company came to Waco in late 1944, the company’s second plant after its Akron, Ohio, headquarters. The company originally constructed the plant in order to supply equipment for the US Armed Forces during World War II. By…