Tim O'Connor
I think WHITE WALL tires were wrapped - Nobody would buy a
blemished white wall, except at a deep discount.
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On 11/17/2020 12:50 PM, Douglas Harding wrote:
Attached
are some photos of boxcars cars in tire service. Based on
the way they are stacked in the car, I would say any boxcar
was suitable.
Garth;
I
agree that there would have been pools of cars doing this,
but I have not found dedicated cars by the PRR that did
this. The dedicated cars mostly had racks, so had to be in
dedicated service or the racks would get ripped out (PRR has
much angry correspondence on this). So, I think tire
shipments were more a flexible pool that the RRs drew from,
since those cars could be used for anything.
Elden
Gatwood
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Subject: Re: [Non-DoD Source] [RealSTMFC] Pool
Service into California
Jim,
Auto makers were voracious buyers of tires, and
I expect there were pools between major tire makers
and auto plants. They needed reliable on-time
deliveries, to keep production running. It would be interesting to have
others comment on this. I just spent half-an-hour
searching the web for this and found nothing, which
is typical of the web.
I believe tires used to come individually
wrapped. And they are certainly not as prone to damage
as most car parts. I would think that any reasonably
clean boxcar would be suitable for tires.
Jim Gates
On Monday, November 16, 2020,
02:49:43 PM CST, Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
<mallardlodge1000@...>
wrote:
Elden,
I second your comments on the
complexity of pools. And when it comes
to sub-assemblies, one also should
consider that some parts were made by
contractors. For instance,
American Metal Products supplied seat
frames and springs to a number of
manufacturers. We usually think only of
the Big Three manufacturers today, but
Willys/Kaiser/Henry J/Frazier/Allstate,
Hudson, Packard, Studebaker, Nash and
others were still in the game into the
1950s, and these smaller marques likely
used many more sourced products than
Ford, GM or Chrysler. And remember,
every car made in the US came with five
tires, and AFAIK, none of auto
manufacturers were making their own
tires (though Ford had tried). There
must also have been pools from the tire
manufacturers to auto assembly plants.
Fred;
Unfortunately,
not yet. I know a guy that has been
working on this for 30+ years with
the intention of doing a book(s),
but he is overwhelmed with data.
Every RR
did their own version of how they
handled it, and I am personally
overwhelmed with just the PRR part
of this, in the moment.
In
addition, the pools changed almost
yearly, with new models, changed
models, and the whims of the auto
makers. I can attest to the
numerous code changes, stencil
changes, rack changes, and classes
in use, from what I’ve dug up.
For your
edification, you may want to look up
the various auto and parts plants
on-line, to see the enormous number
of same in play over the years.
Elden
Gatwood
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io>On Behalf
Of Fred Swanson via groups.io
Sent: Friday, November 13,
2020 10:41 PM
To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
Subject: [Non-DoD Source]
[RealSTMFC] Pool Service into
California
Many cars
serving the auto industry were in
pool service. Are there listings or
other information on what lines to
and from where, when?
Fred Swanson
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