I agree...all characteristics point to a marmac liner...but you're right about the confusion part...a marmac liner stamped F? Possibly unissued Firestone shell completed in the early 60s by marmac industries...or am I definitely wrong?
I agree...all characteristics point to a marmac liner...but you're right about the confusion part...a marmac liner stamped F? Possibly unissued Firestone shell completed in the early 60s by marmac industries...or am I definitely wrong?
According to Reynosa's book Firestone leased moulds to Marmac.
Makes yer head spin doesn't it?!!
During ww2 Westinghouse was the only company to actually own its own molding heads/tools etc,everybody else was on the government lend-lease program,once the war ended about 80 molds went into government storage,all postwar production including Westinghouse produced Liners with whatever mold heads they were given,sort of a lucky dip,during the 1960's the main tool heads that were issued would consist of Westinghouse/Firestone/US some as said would be loaned out within the industry,hence why this Liner even tho its a Marmac carries a Firestone mark,because once a tool head was added to a mold it was permanently sealed for the duration of the molding Heads life,companies found ways of adding there own markings to a Liner so to distinquish it from another maker,the large ink stamped number after the contract date on the webbing is only found on these P64 Marmac liners made between 1965-1972.
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