Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
firestone .com. 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.
The Yokohama Rubber Company, Limited (横浜ゴム株式会社, Yokohama Gomu Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese manufacturing company based in Hiratsuka, Japan. [ 1] The company was founded and began on October 13, 1917, in a joint venture between Yokohama Cable Manufacturing and BFGoodrich. In 1969, the company expanded to the United States as ...
Footnotes / references. [ 2] The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is an American multinational tire manufacturer headquartered in Akron, Ohio. Goodyear manufactures tires for passenger vehicles, aviation, commercial trucks, military and police vehicles, motorcycles, RVs, race cars, and heavy off-road machinery. It also licenses the Goodyear brand ...
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 ...
There are two aspects to how pneumatic tires support the rim of the wheel on which they are mounted. [76] First, the tension in the cords pull on the bead uniformly around the wheel, except where it is reduced above the contact patch. [77] Second, the bead transfers that net force to the rim. [78] [77] Tires are mounted on the wheel by forcing ...
The Ford Ranger (T6) is a range of mid-size pickup trucks manufactured and sold by Ford Motor Company since 2011. The T6 consolidated worldwide production of the Ranger onto a single model range, replacing both the 1998–2012 Ranger marketed in North America and South America and the Mazda-derived Ranger sold in Asia-Pacific, Europe and several Latin American markets.
The following is a list of motorcycle manufacturers worldwide, sorted by extant/extinct status and by country. These are producers whose motorcycles are available to the public, including both street legal as well as racetrack-only or off-road-only motorcycles.
Apollo Vredestein B.V. is a Netherlands -based tire manufacturer. Since 2009, it has been owned by Apollo Tyres, Ltd., of India. Apollo Vredestein has its head office in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and its production facility in Enschede. It designs, manufactures, and sells tires under the Apollo and Vredestein brand names through offices in Europe ...