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For passenger and light truck tyres, the manufacturers or importers have the choice of either putting a sticker on the tyre tread or a label accompanying each delivery of batch of tyres to the dealer and to the end consumer. The tyre label will use a classification from the best (green category "A") to the worst performance (red category "G").
Tire Manufacturers and Companies Company Country Found. Brands Aeolus [1] China: 1965 Aeolus Apollo Tyres India: 1972 Apollo, [2] Apollo Tyres South Africa, [a] Bearway, [3] Kaizen, Maloya, Regal, Vredestein: Birla Tyres India: 1991 Birla Tyre [4] Belshina Belarus: 1965 Belshina [5] Bridgestone Japan: 1931
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, recreational vehicles, race cars, and heavy off-road machinery.
Dunlop Tyres is a brand of tyres which is managed by different companies around the world. It was founded by pneumatic tyre pioneer John Boyd Dunlop in Belfast, Ireland, in 1888. [5] The brand is operated by Goodyear [1] in North America (passenger car & light truck), Europe, Australia and New Zealand. [6]
The tyre load index (LI) on a passenger-car tire is a two- or three-digit numerical code used to cross-reference a load & inflation table that will give the maximum load each tire can carry at a given pressure. The load index is sometimes used in conjunction with the load range, which appears elsewhere on the tire.
In 1906, Henry Ford chose Firestone to supply tires for its car models. [7] In 1918, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company of Canada was incorporated in Hamilton, Ontario, and the first Canadian-made tire rolled off the line on September 15, 1922. [8] During the 1920s, Firestone produced the Oldfield tire, named for racing driver Barney Oldfield. [9]
Dunlop Aircraft Tyres, a company in Birmingham, England (sold by BTR in 1996; 75% of stack was sold to AAC Capital Partners. [12] AAC sold company to Liberty Hall Capital Partners for $135 Million). [13] Dunlop Aerospace, including Dunlop Equipment and Dunlop Precision Rubber, owned by Meggitt plc [14] (the result of a sale by BTR in 1998).
Uniform Tire Quality Grading, commonly abbreviated as UTQG, is a set of standards for passenger car tires that measures a tire's treadwear, temperature resistance and traction. The UTQG was created by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in 1978, a branch of the United States Department of Transportation (DOT). [ 1 ]