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Model Aviation Magazine, AMA - Airplanes and Rockets

United States Rubber Company Advertisement
April 1957 American Modeler

April 1957 American Modeler - Airplanes and Rockets

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These pages from vintage modeling magazines like Flying Aces, Air Trails, American Modeler, American Aircraft Modeler, Young Men, Flying Models, Model Airplane News, R/C Modeler, captured the era. All copyrights acknowledged.

United States Rubber Company was one of the original 12 companies used to calculate the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) for the stock market on Wall Street. In addition to manufacturing automobile and airplane tires, it also supplied the free flight model world with T-56 rubber for powering. T-56, along with tan rubber from Pirelli, Dunlop, was considered the cream of the crop back in the middle and late 20th century. Many old timers still lament of its eventual disappearance from the market and treasure their hordes of the stuff from days of yore.

Here is U.S. Rubber Company ad from a 1955 edition of Air Trails.

United States Rubber Company Advertisement April 1957 American Modeler

Vintage Model Aircraft Magazine Advertisements:

AM = American Modeler | AAM = American Aircraft Modeler | AT = Air Trails | FA = Flying Aces | FM = Flying Models | MAN = Model Airplane News

Ace Radio Control, May 1957 AM

Ace Radio Control, Jan 1970 AAM

America's Hobby Center, Jan 1962 AM

America's Hobby Center, Sep 1970 AAM

Berkeley Models, Jan 1941 FA

Berkeley Models, Dec 1954 AT

Berkeley Models, Jul 1957 AM

Bonner Digimite, Feb 1967 MAN

Carl Goldberg, Feb 1967 MAN

Carl Goldberg, Jan 1970 AAM

Citizen Ship Radio Corp, Jun 1957 AM

Citizen Ship Radio Corp, May 1971 AAM

Cox Thimble Drome .049, Annual 1961 AM

deBolt Model Engineering, Jun 1957 AM

Du-Bro Products, Nov 1970 AAM

K&B Fokker D.7 Biplane, Jun 1963 AM

EK Products, Nov 1970 AAM

Enterprise Model Aircraft, Jun 1957 AM

Eureka Importing Co., Jun 1957 AM

Fox Fuels, Jan 1962 AM

Fox Manufacturing, Apr 1962 AM

Guillow's, Dec 1969 AAM, Dec 1969 AAM

Guillow's, March 1955 AT

Hawk Model Company, Jun 1957 AM

Heathkit, Sep 1970 AAM

Herkimer (OK) Tools & Model Works, Sep 1957 AM

Hobby People, Mar 1970 AAM

Hobby People, Sep 1970 AAM

Jetco, Jul 1972 AAM

Lafayette Radio, Jun 1957 AM

Model Rectifier Corporation (MRC), May 1971 AAM

OS-Graupner Wankel Engine in World Engines, March 1972 AAM

Pan American World Airways Ad (PAA-Load), Annual 1955 AT

Polks Hobbies, Apr 1957 AM

Revell, Feb 1967 MAN

Royal Products, Sep 1970 AAM

Scientific Models, Nov 1970 AAM

Sig Manufacturing, Nov 1970 AAM

Sig Manufacturing, Jan/Feb 1963 AM

Sterling Models, Dec 1954 AT

Sterling Fokker D-7, Aug 1968 AAM

Sterling Models, Sept 1970 AAM

Sterling Models, Nov 1970 AAM

Tatone Products, Nov 1970 AAM

Thimble Drome, July 1957 AM

Thimble Drome, Sep 1957 AM

Top Flite, Dec 1969 AAM

United States Rubber Company, Apr 1957 AM

United States Rubber Company, Annual 1955 AT

World Engines, Mar 1973

Posted January 4, 2013



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