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Employees were happy with their new employer since production workers made 12 : cents an hour, supervisors received 22 cents per hour and tire builders were paid 27 cents per hour. By the standards of the day, Goodyear Goodyear salaries were considered considered to be quite high. Goodyear received its first large order for tires from the McLaughlin Motor Car Company of Oshawa, Ontario (known today as General Motors.) The order was for 70 tires and was to be completed in only three days. The size of the order and the time constraint constraint was a clear test of Goodyear's credibility as a supplier. To meet the challenge, Goodyear increased its staff to about 200 people with production production running flat out, 24 hours a day in three shifts. While the addition of a night .shift meant increased productivity, productivity, there were logistical logistical problems to be overcome. Operations at night were difficult difficult because the building, as yet, was not equipped with proper lighting. The employees, however, were determined to complete their first major order to deadline. To solve the lighting problem employees gathered gathered pieces of long wire to make an extension cord, which was connected to the lights in the old Durham Rubber plant. This one light, plus a lantern borrowed from the night watchman, were the employees' only illumination. illumination. This dedication and ability to innovate enabled enabled the order to be successfully successfully completed on time. Goodyear Canada's tradition of innovative thinking, quality quality products and customer service had begun. The production schedule was so tight that the tires were not ready for shipment until the night of the third and final day. Three employees employees drove 21 kilometers (13 miles) over rough, gravel roads, to the McLaughlin plant and delivered Good- year's first "Made in Canada" Canada" tires on time. From that day on, Goodyear Goodyear Canada's reputation for quality products grew so quickly that several expansions expansions were made to the original original factory. By 1916, 700 men were working under one roof in the small plant and, as the manager of the factory's lab put it: "We were tramping on each other's heels." It was time to build a second plant. Bowmanville was considered considered at the time as a possible home for the firm's new factory. factory. But, there was a problem. problem. It was a small town in farming country. During the winter, help was plentiful, but once summer came many employees left the plant to go back to working their land. So, the location chosen for the new factory was in Toronto's Toronto's west end, on Lake- shore Blvd. This spot was close to CPR and Grand Trunk rail systems and near Lake Ontario. The facility was equipped with transformers transformers to handle the current current obtained from the Niagara Niagara Falls Power Company, and reports say that "past its doors ran a magnificent 40 mile stretch of concrete highway highway from Toronto to Hamil ton." The plant was to employ employ over 800 people. Toronto's Toronto's substantial population had plenty of people looking for full-time, year-round work. In 1917 the Toronto Plant started full production of auto, carriage and bicycle tires and horseshoe pads, while Bowmanville was making yet another "first" for Goodyear Canada - it became became the first Canadian location location to produce industrial rubber products. The plant continued in this capacity through the 20's and 30's paralleling Canada's growth as a nation. During the Second World War, the Bowmanville factory factory became a vital supplier of rubber goods to the Canadian Canadian armed forces. The facility produced more than two million feet of hose in 50 foot lengths to meet the emergency emergency of the German air attack on London. Three-quarters of this huge order was shipped to Britain. Along with this product, the plant supplied a staggering variety variety of other rubber items: heels and soles of soldiers boots, bren-gun clips, tarpaulin tarpaulin straps, mud flaps for fielc gun carriers, truck fan belts radiator and defroster hose and oil and gas lines for thi tanker trucks which service c other military vehicles. Prod ucts for the navy includec engine parts, waterproo: gaskets for the doors of boat: and landing craft and a ney hose for gasoline and oi which was designed to floa on the surface of the water. 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