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The Pennsylvania Rubber Works, which moved to Jeannette from Erie, Pennsylvania, around 1903, was yet another key part of the city's significant industrial base.

Not only did this factory become a significant supplier of play balls ( basketballs, footballs, tennis balls, etc.

) and carpet underlay as part of General Tire in its later years ; but the original Pennsylvania Rubber Works provided products for Jeeps and gas masks during World War II.