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  2. List of tire companies - Wikipedia

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    Titan Tire Corporation [79] USA: 1993 Goodyear (farm tires), Titan, Continental (OTR only) [80] Tigar Tyres Serbia: 1959 Tigar: Tomket Tires [81] [non-primary source needed] Czech Republic: 1997 Tomket (Czech brand of low category is made in China) Toyo Tire & Rubber [82] Japan: 1945 Nitto, Silverstone, Toyo: Trayal Corporation Serbia: 1955 ...

  3. A Dictionary of First Names - Wikipedia

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    A Dictionary of First Names is an onomastic work of reference on given names, published by Oxford University Press, edited by Patrick Hanks, Kate Hardcastle, and Flavia Hodges in 1990 and 2006. The second edition of 2006 (as paperback 2007) discusses a total of "over 6,000 names".

  4. Wheelwright - Wikipedia

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    The basic parts of a wooden wheel are nave (or hub), spokes, felloes (felly) and tyre (tire). [3] [4] The nave is the central block of the wheel. In a wooden-spoked wheel, the nave acts as the hub. One end of each spoke is set into the nave in a process called tennoning. In older wheels, the nave had a 6-inch sleeve that fit over the axle to ...

  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. Tire Rack - Wikipedia

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    By 2005, Tire Rack had grown into a nationwide company that distributes more than 2 million tires annually. [4] The company now offers 24 tire brands and has ten warehouses in nine states. [3] [5] Customers who pick up orders from a warehouse location are offered a discount. After 26 years of being a privately-owned family company, Los Angeles ...

  7. Les Schwab Tire Centers - Wikipedia

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    Les Schwab Tires entered the Denver metropolitan area with five stores in October 2012, the first in Colorado, bringing the total number of company owned stores to 374. [9] The company does more than $1.6 billion in sales each year, [ 8 ] and is the second largest independent tire retailer in the United States .

  8. Glossary of automotive terms - Wikipedia

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    Also gas pedal. A throttle in the form of a foot-operated pedal, or sometimes a hand-operated lever or paddle, by which the flow of fuel to the engine (and thereby the engine speed) is controlled, with depression of the pedal causing the vehicle to accelerate. admission stroke See induction stroke. aftermarket air brake 1. A type of brake in which the force that actuates the brake mechanism is ...

  9. Harvey S. Firestone - Wikipedia

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    The family name was originally Feuerstein; Nicholas Feuerstein, Firestone's paternal ancestor, immigrated from Alsace in 1752 and settled in Pennsylvania. [3] He was the second of Benjamin and Catherine ( née Flickinger) Firestone's three sons; Benjamin also had a son and a daughter by his first wife.