Abstract: Tire building apparatus for building complete uncured tires includes a triad of orthogonally oriented tire building drums mounted on a turret rotatable about an axis inclined at an angle of between 35 and 36 degrees with respect to a horizontal plane. Each of the drums occupies successively two tire fabricating stations wherein the respective drums are oriented horizontally and a third station wherein the building drums successively occupying such third station are oriented vertically and from which completed tires fabricated in the apparatus can be removed vertically and at an elevation above the two fabricating stations so as to eliminate completely interference between the movements of tire building material coming to the machine and of the completed tires removed from the machine.