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2. Firestone Tire and Rubber Company - Wikipedia

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   The first Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. store. Newspaper ad from 1919 for their cord tire. Firestone was originally based in Akron, Ohio, also the hometown of its archrival, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and two other midsized competitors, General Tire and Rubber Companyand B.F. Goodrich Company. Founded on August 3, 1900,[5]the company ...

3. Firestone Natural Rubber Company - Wikipedia

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   Firestone constructed hangars, ancillary buildings, and an 8,700 foot runway on the site. [9] Advertisement for Firestone's factory and exhibition building at the World's Fair showing Liberians harvesting and transporting rubber. The Firestone Plantation was originally envisioned for 350,000 people to be employed on the newly created plantations.

4. Firestone and Ford tire controversy - Wikipedia

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   The Firestone and Ford tire controversy of the 1990s saw hundreds of people die in automobile crashes caused by the failure of Firestone tires installed on light trucks and SUVs made by Ford Motor Company . Unusually high failure rates of P235/75R15 ATX, ATX II, and Wilderness AT tires installed on the first-generation Ford Explorer and similar ...

5. List of tire companies - Wikipedia

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   Titan Tire Corporation [77] USA: 1993 Goodyear (farm tires), Titan, Continental (OTR only) [78] Tigar Tyres Serbia: 2002 Tigar: Tomket Tires [79] [non-primary source needed] Czech Republic: 1997 Tomket (Czech brand of low category is made in China) Toyo Tire & Rubber [80] Japan: 1945 Nitto, Silverstone, Toyo: Trayal Corporation Serbia: 1955 ...

6. Harvey S. Firestone - Wikipedia

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   Idabelle Smith Firestone. . . ( m. 1895) . Children. 7, including Harvey Jr. and Leonard. Firestone c. 1931. Harvey Samuel Firestone Sr. (December 20, 1868 – February 7, 1938) was an American businessman, and the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, one of the first global makers of automobile tires.

7. Bridgestone - Wikipedia

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   Bridgestone. Bridgestone Corporation (株式会社ブリヂストン, Kabushiki gaisha Burijisuton) is a Japanese multinational manufacturing company founded in 1931 by Shojiro Ishibashi (1889–1976) in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. The name Bridgestone comes from a calque translation and transposition of ishibashi ( 石橋 ), meaning ...