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D19419-5

Lloyd Suiter Tire Company. Percy Dunlop, a representative of the National Institute of Treading Standards, explains that "instrument tests show this to be a perfect section cure". L-R, Lloyd Suiter, Rudy Searle, shop foreman, and Percy Dunlop. (T.Times, 6/6/1945, p.10)


Tires; Lloyd Suiter Tire Co. (Tacoma); Suiter, Lloyd; Searle, Rudy; Dunlop, Percy;

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Temple Motors opened a used cars division in the Banford & Newsome Bldg. on Pacific Avenue on March 1, 1953. The building formerly had housed various tire companies. According to their many signs, Temple Motors offered easy terms for purchasing one of their vehicles as well as paying cash for the customer's trade-in. Temple Motors was owned by Henry G. Geissler and Ed M. Williams. They were a Studebaker dealership whose main location was on Saint Helens. View of Temple Motors, Used Cars division; four cars are parked in the two open garage doorways. Photograph ordered by Henry Geissler. (TPL-6384)


Temple Motors, Inc. (Tacoma); Automobile dealerships--Tacoma; Signs (Notices);

D19419-3

Lloyd Suiter Tire Company. Percy Dunlop, a representative of the National Institute of Treading Standards, visited the Lloyd Suiter Tire Company. Here he is checking the curing system of one of the large molds, a Lodi Recap Mold. L-R, Mr. Poston of Wilson Brothers Logging Company, Rudy Searle, shop foreman, Lloyd Suiter and Percy Dunlop. (T.Times, 6/6/1945, p.10), (See D19520-2 for an exterior view of building)


Tires; Lloyd Suiter Tire Co. (Tacoma); Searle, Rudy; Suiter, Lloyd; Dunlop, Percy;

D19419-6

Lloyd Suiter Tire Company. Percy Dunlop, a representative of the National Institute of Treading Standards, and Lloyd Suiter test a tread cure on a recapped tire. The tags on the tire are attached to thermocuple wires, testing tread cuts from one to six ply depths. L-R, Lloyd Suiter and Percy Dunlop. (T.Times, 6/6/1945, p.10)


Tires; Lloyd Suiter Tire Co. (Tacoma); Suiter, Lloyd; Dunlop, Percy;

D19419-7

Lloyd Suiter Tire Company. Lloyd Suiter and Percy Dunlop show the findings of their test on a cross-section cut of a recapped tire. Mr. Dunlop is a representative of the National Institute of Treading Standards from Washington, D.C. (T.Times, 6/6/1945, p.10)


Tires; Lloyd Suiter Tire Co. (Tacoma); Suiter, Lloyd; Dunlop, Percy;