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Falken is a brand of passenger car, light truck, and medium truck tires owned by the Japanese company Sumitomo Rubber Industries (SRI). It was launched in its native country of Japan in 1983, and was introduced to the North American market two years later and in Europe in 1988.
By 1925, Deere & Company realized the standard Model D did not meet customers' needs for industrial applications. Steel wheels were not suitable for hard surfaces, and the gearing was too slow for safe road speeds. Solid rubber tires were added, and engineers fitted a 28 tooth sprocket to the final drive, giving a road speed of 4 mph (6 km/h ...
1975 Western Auto Garden Tiller. Western Auto was known for its private labelled Western Flyer Bicycle and Performance Radial GT tire brand. Other Western Auto private-labeled brands included Davis tires, Tough One batteries, TrueTone electronics, Citation appliances, Wizard tools, and Wizard typewriters — the latter as re-branded typewriters manufactured by Brother Industries of Nagoya, Japan.
Hesston 5670 round baler, in 2010. AGCO was established on June 20, 1990, when Robert J. Ratliff, John M. Shumejda, Edward R. Swingle, and James M. Seaver, who were executives at Deutz-Allis, bought out Deutz-Allis North American operations from the parent corporation Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG (KHD), a German company which owned the Deutz-Fahr brand of agriculture equipment.
Cyrus Hall McCormick patented an early mechanical reaper. 1900 ad for McCormick farm machines—"Your boy can operate them" 1921 International Harvester Model 101 on display at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum, Walcott, Iowa. 1925 International Model 63 Street-Washing Truck on display at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum, Walcott, Iowa.
The Goodrich Corporation, formerly the B.F. Goodrich Company, was an American manufacturing company based in Charlotte, North Carolina.Founded in Akron, Ohio in 1870 as Goodrich, Tew & Co. by Dr. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, the company name was changed to the "B.F. Goodrich Company" in 1880, to BFGoodrich in the 1980s, and to "Goodrich Corporation" in 2001.
In 2022, American Tire Distributors sold their Canadian operations (National Tire Distributors) to Groupe Touchette. [15] In October 2024, ATD filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time, listing assets and liabilities between $1 billion and $10 billion. The company plans to sell itself to new owners in efforts to eliminate debt.
Three years after opening the store, Tire Rack got into the mail order business and by 1990 the store was shut down. [2] In 1995, Tire Rack began its website where it posted reviews of tires it sold. [2] In 1998, Tire Rack began online sales. [3] By 2005, Tire Rack had grown into a nationwide company that distributes more than 2 million tires ...