Photo Record
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Metadata
Collection |
Waterloo Region Museum |
Object ID |
2012.031.001.151 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Title |
[Assembly line] |
Description |
Black and white print with a white border. Conveyor belt in a square-shape with unidentified employees working around it. There are numerous presses in the centre of the conveyor belt, each one marked with a number - 8, 9, 10, etc. There is an out-of-focus employee on the far right adjusting press #8. There are two female employees on the left side, placing something on the trays being sent along the conveyor. There appears to be a pile of scrap rubber in the background. Overhead fluorescent lighting and ducts. The reverse of the photograph is blank. No photographer's mark. |
Date |
1960 |
Date |
1975 |
Copyright |
Waterloo Region Museum |
History |
The Merchant's Rubber Company was formed in 1903 by Talmon Henry Rieder and Jacob Kaufman. Both men had been shareholders in the Berlin Rubber Manufacturing Company and formed their own company after a disagreement with the other shareholders. In 1907, both the Merchant's Rubber Company and the Berlin Rubber Manufacturing Company were acquired by Canadian Consolidated Rubber of Montreal. T.H. Rieder became a Director of Consolidated Rubber and General Manger of all its Canadian footwear factories. This company was later referred to as Dominion Rubber Systems but the factory at 51 Breithaupt Street was still known as the Merchants Rubber Factory. In 1966, Dominion Rubber changed its name to Uniroyal. Uniroyal and BF Goodrich merged in 1986, and the Merchant's factory was then owned by a succession of companies that manufactured automotive parts and accessories. As of 2013, the building is part of a redevelopment known as the Breithaupt Block. |
Search Terms |
Uniroyal Limited |