This website uses cookies. The Coruba team will be observing the 2-minute silence to honour the brave men and women who lost their lives during World War II and other conflicts. We will remember them. While food was one of the main commodities rationed in Britain, the American public was subject to the rationing of rubber tyres.
The problem was compounded because the cargo ships were being requisitioned for military use, reducing the nation's ability to import rubber from South America. A synthetic rubber programme had been launched but it didn't produce enough to meet military and civilian needs. Although America had stockpiled crude rubber before the war, there was only enough to last for one year in peacetime. Desperate measures were needed to ensure the rubber required by the military didn't run out. The armed forces needed rubber for many purposes including vehicle and aircraft tyres, gas masks, oxygen masks, pontoon bridges, medical equipment and military wear, such as raincoats, boots and shoes.
The rationing of tyres and other rubber goods began on 5th January and continued until 31st December A number of Local Tyre Rationing Boards were set up to monitor local use. A certificate was required to have new tyres fitted and they were reserved for public health and safety vehicles including ambulances, fire engines, police vehicles, bin lorries and mail vans.
People simply had to make do with what they had. Public service campaigns educated people on how to care for rubber products to make them last for the duration — protection from heat and moisture, proper cleaning, avoiding folding or crumpling, careful stretching of elastic, and speedy repair of holes or tears.
From June , the United States held a nationwide rubber drive. People were encouraged to donate used or surplus rubber items. People brought in old or excess tires, raincoats, hot water bottles, boots, and floor mats. In exchange they received a penny a pound. Although , tons of scrap rubber was collected, used rubber was found to be of poor quality for military use. Since civilians had to make five tires last the entire war, they had to be extremely careful. People were encouraged to drive less — in fact, the primary purpose for nationwide gasoline rationing was to protect tires.
Japanese occupations in the Far East had made it impossible to get rubber from plantations in the Dutch East Indies, and what little rubber was available went straight to airplane and munitions factories. Because no one had yet figured out how to make really high-quality artificial rubber, the OPA especially wanted to encourage people to care for the automobile tires they already had. Ads urged people to put less wear on their tires by driving in carpools. Meanwhile, scrap-rubber drives collected old raincoats, garden hoses and bathing caps.
Tire rationing finally ended on December 31, But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! On December 27, , Benazir Bhutto, a former Pakistani prime minister and the first democratically elected female leader of a Muslim country, is assassinated at age 54 in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. A polarizing figure at home and abroad, Bhutto had spent three decades Murder and mayhem have been the subject of many popular songs over the years, though more often than not, the tales around which such songs revolve tend to be wholly fictional.
Donna Dahlke, age 3, and Captain W. Tyler of the Sunshine Division stand next to a rubber salvage barrel at Embassy Apartments on June 18, This photograph shows young Portlanders paying Shell Oil Company representatives with rubber as admission to a game at Vaughn Street ballpark on June 27, Workers prepare silk-stocking bales for shipping on January 25, , which were eventually used to make powder bags. The views expressed in user comments do not reflect the views of OHS.
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