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Started in Auburn, Indiana , in 1913 as the Double Fabric Tire Company, it made tires for the Auburn Automobile Company . In the 1920s , the company changed its name to Auburn Rubber, phased out its production of tires and introduced new products such as shoe-soling sheets. In 1935 , it began making rubber toys, including toy cars, trucks, tractors and animals. During World War II , it made soles for combat boots and gaskets for so-called " Jerry Can s."

The company was sold in . Auburn Rubber went out of business in 1969 .


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  • Jonathan Kwitny, ''Vicious Circles: The Mafia in the Marketplace'', New York: W.W. Norton, 1979, 422 pages. ISBN 0-39301-188-7

  • [http://www.kpcnews.net/special-sections/cruising2/cruising7.html Lee Sauer, ''When it wasn't cars, it was car parts'']