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  2. 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.

  3. Indy NXT - Wikipedia

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    The Andersen team implemented a number of cost-reducing updates to the chassis and engine package in 2014 and introduced a new chassis and engine combination in 2015. On October 31, 2013, the series announced that Dallara would be the manufacturer of the fourth-generation Indy Lights chassis and it would be named the Dallara IL-15. [ 6 ]

  4. Firestone Tire and Rubber Company - Wikipedia

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    Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is an American tire company founded by Harvey S. Firestone (1868–1938) in 1900 initially to supply solid rubber side-wire tires [2] for fire apparatus, [3] and later, pneumatic tires for wagons, buggies, and other forms of wheeled transportation common in the era.

  5. National Tire and Battery - Wikipedia

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    National Tire and Battery (NTB) is an American brand of auto service centers.It was formerly owned by Sears until it was spun-off in 2003. In 2020, Mavis Tire Supply Co. bought 112 NTB Tire & Service Centers, leaving the parent TBC Corporation with 615 locations under the Tire Kingdom and NTB brands.

  6. Firestone and Ford tire controversy - Wikipedia

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    The recall was estimated to cost $6 million. [52] On August 9, 2000, Firestone issued a recall covering 6.5 million P235/75R15 Firestone ATX and ATX II tires and P235/75R15 Wilderness AT tires manufactured after 1991 and 1996 respectively. The recall covered all ATX and ATX II tires regardless of which plant they originated from but only ...

  7. Bridgestone - Wikipedia

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    6 Firestone: 1950–1975: 121 49 11 ... caudal fin in cooperation with Bridgestone to replace Fuji's fin. ... purchased Firestone in 1988, cost cutting measures led ...

  8. Ti-6Al-7Nb - Wikipedia

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    Ti-6Al-7Nb (UNS designation R56700) is an alpha-beta titanium alloy first synthesized in 1977 containing 6% aluminum and 7% niobium. It features high strength and has similar properties as the cytotoxic vanadium containing alloy Ti-6Al-4V. Ti-6Al-7Nb is used as a material for hip prostheses. [1]

  9. Freestone and Webb - Wikipedia

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    Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud drophead coupé, built for October 1957 Earls Court Motor Show. Freestone and Webb were English coachbuilders who made bodies for Rolls-Royce and Bentley motor cars but also built bodies on other chassis including Alfa Romeo, Packard, and Mercedes-Benz.