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Title: Interview with Thomas Hoopes, 1969 July 23 [audio](part 1)
Date(s): 1969-07-23
Contributor(s): Hoopes, Thomas (interviewee), Scafidi, John A. (interviewer), Ryff, Allen (interviewer)
Description: Hoopes gives a history of the company including the addition of rubber to wagon wheels, the changes the company underwent during World War II, the introduction of electricity, the relationships with the competition, best business practices, the management of the company, and different types of tires.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_72913_Hoopes_part1
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Interview with Thomas Hoopes, 1969 July 23 [audio](part 2)
Date(s): 1969-07-23
Contributor(s): Hoopes, Thomas (interviewee), Scafidi, John A. (interviewer), Ryff, Allen (interviewer)
Description: Hoopes gives a history of the company including the addition of rubber to wagon wheels, the changes the company underwent during World War II, the introduction of electricity, the relationships with the competition, best business practices, the management of the company, and different types of tires.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_72913_Hoopes_part2
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Interview with George Christ, 1969 July 23 [audio]
Date(s): 1969-07-23
Contributor(s): Christ, George (interviewee), Scafidi, John A. (interviewer), Ryff, Allen (interviewer)
Description: George M. Christ, a worker in the blacksmith shop at Hoopes Brothers and Darlington, describes his career manufacturing wagon wheels. In his interview he details the wheel-making process, various types of tires, the rate of production of wagon wheels, and how the workers utilized the shrinker machine to make wheels.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_72913_Christ
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley