Label

Name/Title

Label

Entry/Object ID

1994.80.2j

Description

Possibly a newspaper clipping from the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, September 2, 1980, and goes with 1994.80.2k. Desert grown. The first tire to be made using guayule, a rubber obtained from a desert shrub, comes off Goodyear's production line in Topeka, Kan., recently. Nearly 1,900 pounds of guayule was used to replace natural tree rubber to make this 5,000 pound, 10 foot diameter tire for earthmoving equipment. It will be tested at a proving ground in Texas.

Collection

Shiro and Mary Nomura Collection