* October 11 – October 12 – Fire destroys a Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Fall River, Massachusetts, consuming 15, 850 tons of rubber and causing a setback to the United States war effort.

* Avon Tyres, a UK car, motorcycle and racing-tyre manufacturer, owned by the Cooper Tire & Rubber Company

The first race car ( in concept only ) fitted with a turbine was in 1955 by a US Air Force group as a hobby project with a turbine loaned them by Boeing and a race car owned by Firestone Tire & Rubber company.

Statue of Paul W. Litchfield in Akron, Ohio, headquarters of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.

He was an executive of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company who came to the Phoenix area in 1916 in search of suitable land to farm a long-staple cotton that had previously been available only from the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia and from Egypt.

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It includes a number of gas stations including ( Exxon, Shell, Chevron, and Arco ), a McDonald's, a Carl's Jr., a drive through Starbuck's, Willow Ranch BBQ restaurant, an Indian restaurant, Subway, a Mexican-Salvadoran restaurant, TravelCenters of America, and Castro Tire & Truckwash.

In 1937, their huge plant waterfront on Water Street was acquired by the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company and soon employed 2, 600 people.

* Tecumseh, Furniture Brands International, Hancock Fabrics, Inc., Magnolia Fabrics, Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Mississippi, H. M. Richards, JESCO Construction, MTD Products, Savings Oil Company ( Dodge's Stores ), and Cooper Tire & Rubber Company all operate or are headquartered in Tupelo and Lee County.

The Byrne Sieberlings ( 1920-30's ) sponsored by the J. P. Byrne Tire Company featured some of Central New York's greatest semi-pro ball players: George & Oscar Dear, Tommy Allen, Andy Burns, Henry " Dutch " Dotterer Sr, Don Miller ( 1927 NY Yankee ), Vic Hanson ( SU All-American ,) " Gotch " Carr, Louis " Doc " Morgan.

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company operated a plant in the city from 1969 to 2011.

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant in Union City was the only plant licensed to produce tires for the Chevrolet Corvette.

Several businesses have left ( Akins Food, B & H clothing, Tru-Value Hardware and Les Schwab Tire ) and very few new businesses have been established.

On the strength of his samples and of his " Chip Martin, College Reporter " AT & T advertising comic-strip pages in Boys ' Life magazine, and of his similar Goodyear Tire ads, Adams landed the assignment.

Hamilton Tire & Garage was sold in 1923 and the Billes brothers moved several times before they settled their site at 639 Yonge Street.

* Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Dissenting

* Robert J. Keegan-former Chairman of the Board of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and President of the Consumer Imaging business and an Executive Vice President of Eastman Kodak.

Industrial expansion during that time included the Goodall-Sanford Co. off Ash Street, later sold to General Tire & Rubber Company, later known as GenCorp.

Abington has enjoyed many new businesses moving into town since the late 1990s such as Lowe's, Target, Stop & Shop, Wal-Mart, Sullivan Tire, Bank of America etc.

The closures of Canadian Tire and IKEA in the mid 1990s left vacancies that sat unfilled until the spaces were converted into a " Chinatown "- themed area in 2002 which includes an Asian supermarket, T & T Supermarket, and an entertainment complex that consisted of a billiard hall, bowling alley and nightclub, respectively.

* Chinatown-Businesses catering to the Asian population, headlined by T & T Supermarket ( in the former Canadian Tire location ).

In 1898, almost four decades after his death, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company was founded and named after Goodyear by Frank Seiberling.

New Toronto always had a large industrial base including plants operated by: Ritchie and Ramsay Co. paper mills, Anaconda American Brass Ltd., Canadian Industries Ltd., Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. Ltd., Plibrico, Charis Ltd., W & A Gilbey Ltd., Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd. ( all demolished ), as well as the Campbell Soup Company of Canada Ltd. and Dominion Colour Corporation Ltd. ( surviving ), McDonald Stamping Works / Robert Menzie Wallpaper Co ./ Reg.

* Toyo Tire & Rubber Company, Japan

By May 1990, Michelin Group had completed its buyout of Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Company from Clayton & Dubilier of New York.

Conemaugh Township includes the towns of Jerome, Davidsville, Tire Hill, Thomas Mills, part of Holsopple, and surrounding countryside.

There are also plans to open a South Vancouver store in the Fall of 2012 as part of a development that includes Canadian Tire, Best Buy, and Mark's.

The town has a very active and developing downtown core area which includes the Tillsonburg Town Centre mall, built in 1980 and the recently opened big box stores including Canadian Tire, Shopper's Drug Mart and Staples-Business Depot.

The area also includes the remaining portion of Marcel Breuer's landmark Armstrong Rubber / Pirelli Tire Building ( 1969 ).

The partnership includes a renaming of the track to Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.

Distribution also includes Canadian Tire in Canada.

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Canada's automobile industry, on the other hand, has been dominated by American firms from its inception, explaining why Canadians use the American spelling of tire ( hence, " Canadian Tire ") and American terminology for the parts of automobiles ( for example, truck instead of lorry, gasoline instead of petrol, trunk instead of boot ).

After his discharge, Willkie worked as a corporate lawyer for the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio.

* 1987: Staff of the Akron Beacon Journal, " for its coverage, under deadline pressure, of the attempted takeover of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. by a European financier.

Grand Am's Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge, a support series for the Rolex Series, provides a similar series to the old Trans Am Series, mixing conventional sports cars and touring cars.

Tire pressure for 12-and 15-passenger vans is a critical safety concern that is often overlooked, as these vans are designed to have a higher pressure in the rear tires in order to carry the heavier load safely.

Goodyear was established in 1917 with the purchase of of land by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company to cultivate cotton for vehicle tire threads.

In the 1980s, the remaining of the original Goodyear Tire acreage was sold for development.

The Auburn Rubber Company was started in 1913 as the Double Fabric Tire Company, making tires for Auburn Automobile Company.

It is a manufacturing site for Bridgestone Aircraft Tire and General Tobacco.

) and carpet underlay as part of General Tire in its later years ; but the original Pennsylvania Rubber Works provided products for Jeeps and gas masks during World War II.

Union City is best known for two things: It was the site of a minor battle in the American Civil War in March 1864, and it formerly had a Goodyear Tire Plant.

Late in 2011, Titan Tire Corporation, a subsidiary of Titan International, Inc., purchased the former Goodyear plant and announced plans to use the facility as a warehouse for farm and off-road tires, with further uses to be determined.

In an effort to keep up with the studio's growth, and need for additional sound stages, Desi and Lucy purchased RKO Radio Pictures from General Tire in 1957 for over six million dollars, effectively owning the studio where they had started as contract players.

* Timothy Edward Connolly-Rear Tire Changer for NASCAR driver Tony Stewart

Tire irons have not been in common use for automobile tires since the shift to the use of tubeless tires in the late 1950s.

Tire irons for bicycles are usually referred to as tire levers, as they are often made of plastic, not metal.

Tire levers for bicycle tires have one end that is tapered and slightly curved.

The retailer is known for its Canadian Tire money, a loyalty program first introduced in 1958.

Certain merchandise items are branded specifically for Canadian Tire.

Customers using Canadian Tire's Options Mastercard for their purchases also receive around 2 % Canadian Tire money, in electronic form, " on the card ".

* Consumer tips for Canadian Tire shoppers