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Title	Vital Part of Tanks, Guns, Planes Poster
Subject	Military Ohio Transportation Business and Labor Bearings industry Advertisements
Place	Canton (Ohio) Stark County (Ohio)
Description	The Timken Company produced a series of posters in the 1940s and 1950s advertising the many uses and functions of their roller bearings. This one features an image of a roller bearing as well as the slogan "A Vital Part of Tanks, Guns, Planes likewise a vital part of cars, trucks and buses...That's why we use genuine Timken bearings to replace Timken bearings!" The reverse features the information about "How the rolls for a Timken bearing are selected? What this means to you." The poster measures 9" by 11" (22.86 by 27.9 cm). The Timken Company began as the Timken Carriage Company in 1898 in St. Louis, Missouri. The company developed a new kind of roller bearing that they first used on their buggies and wagons. Making roller bearings for other manufacturers became the company's focus. Henry Timken patented a tapered roller bearing in 1898 and started a company to produce it in 1899. Henry's sons, Henry H. (H.H.) and William R. (W.R.) Timken, took over the business soon after. As their business grew, they realized their distance from the steel market was resulting in high freight costs and shipping delays. They chose Canton as their new location and in 1901 they broke ground for a new building. The Timken Company became an internation leader in the production of roller bearings, alloy and specialty steels, and related products. Their bearings have been used in all types of vehicles from trains to cars to space shuttles. Timken produced more than 6 billion bearings between 1899 and 2003.
Creator	Timken Company
Date of Original	1940 - 1950 circa
Collection	Timken Company Collection
Source	Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution	McKinley Museum and National Memorial
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om2340_2557900_020
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2340_2557900_020.tif
Image Height	4378
Image Width	3355
File Size	3445.526 KB

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