He suddenly finds himself being offered a contract to work at the very same investment firm from his real life, having impressed the Chairman of the firm with his business savvy when he came in for a tire change.

" Other appellations were " Queen City of the Gas Belt " and ( because of the vulcanizing and the rubber tire manufacturing business ) " Puncture Proof City.

In Los Angeles, during the 1940s, car and tire companies teamed up against the Pacific Electric Railway system and bought them out of business.

Even though B. F. Goodrich is still a popular brand name of tires, the Goodrich Corporation exited the tire business in 1988.

By 1986 B. F. Goodrich had become an S & P 500-listed company in diverse business, including tire and rubber fabrication.

In August 1986, one of its biggest competitors in the tire business, Uniroyal Inc., was taken private when it merged with the tire segment of the B. F. Goodrich Company, in a joint venture private partnership, to become the Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Company.

B. F. Goodrich by then exited the tire business entirely, in line with its plan to build its chemicals and aerospace businesses through reinvestment and acquisitions.

* Space Shuttles ( wheels and brakes ; tire business sold to Michelin in 1988 )

Now renamed Goodrich Corporation, the company abandoned the tire business in 1988 and now describes itself as " a global supplier of systems and services to the aerospace, defense and homeland security markets ".

F. Goodrich's tire business in 1994.

She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Russian Jewish immigrants Esther ( née Ottenstein ), who was a childhood friend of Golda Meir, and Meyer Lubotsky, a retail tire business owner.

He then spent the next three years as a salesman before tiring of the constant travel and investing in a tire business.

In 1964, now 58-years old, de Hory began to tire of the forgery business, and soon his work began to suffer.

In 2004, American tire business giant Michelin gave Cidon their " Estrella de la Guia Michelin " award (" Michelin Guiding Star "), given by that company to Spain's top business achievers.

He decides to set up a mobile tire sales business so that he will no longer be employed by others, and applies for a government loan to set up the business.

He decides that as he is certain to receive his loan he can order his tires now and start the business, and breaks into his brother's tire sales business to make a large order, to be delivered to his best friend and prospective business partner, Bonny.

Homer uses one of his coupons at a tire business on a free wheel balancing, and is told by the " customer care specialist " that his car will not take a balance, and that he will need four new tires because they cannot legally let customers drive off with faulty tires.

They purchased The Giant Tire & Rubber Company of Akron, a tire rebuilding business, in 1920, and in 1922 moved the business to Findlay, Ohio, at a site at the intersection of Lima and Western Avenues that is still occupied by Cooper Tire, adjacent to The Cooper Corporation facility.

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 ).

The pound per square inch ( psi ) is still in widespread use in the US and Canada, for measuring, for instance, tire pressure.

With a growing desire to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the use of the super single tire is gaining popularity.

In the UK, the spelling tyre was revived in the 19th century for pneumatic tires, though many continued to use tire for the iron variety.

Roadway noise can be reduced by the use of noise barriers, limitation of vehicle speeds, alteration of roadway surface texture, limitation of heavy vehicles, use of traffic controls that smooth vehicle flow to reduce braking and acceleration, and tire design.

One month later the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad presented the Fire Company with a locomotive tire iron for use as a fire alarm.

The use of non-weapons in an aggressive manner, such as a baseball bat or tire iron, may also be considered deadly force.

Even when the suspension is not independent, split axles permit the use of a differential, allowing the left and right drive wheels to be driven at different speeds as the automobile turns, improving traction and extending tire life.

Some trikes use a geometry ( also called center point steering ) with the kingpin axis intersecting the ground directly ahead of the tire contact point, producing a normal amount of trail.

Bicycle tire irons are still in use for those tires which have a separate inner tube, and can have a hooked C-shape cut into one end of the iron so that it may be hooked on a bicycle spoke to hold it in place.

In some cases, the tire can be reinserted on the rim, and sometimes removed from the rim, without the use of tire levers.

Once the extra line is on the reel, an angler can use the reel's drag system to tire the fish.

Veteran RV-spotters use the presence of a tag axle ( as well as large tire size ) to separate out the truly expensive motorhomes from those that just look that way.

During cold winters, when the higher areas are covered in snow, people in Kashmir have been known to use a technique to tire the birds out to catch them.

Other devices use the inner or outer surface of rotating drums, sliding planks, conveyor belts, or a trailer that presses the test tire to an actual road surface.

Tire swings can also be used in spinners, where the occupants use their feet to propel the tire.

Some bicycle wheels are labeled in metric as " 700c " for a nominal 700 mm diameter road bike tire, but mountain bikes tend to use 26-inch wheels.

He could use this to blackmail her, but says he has come to tire of her.

The track remains available for private use, such as car & tire testing, as well as filming.

Two-stage machines for home use are usually self-propelled, using either large wheels equipped with tire chains or, in some cases, tracks.

The use of insulation on the outside of tire walls, which was not common in early designs, is improving the viability of Earthships in every climate without compromising their durability.

However, a particular benefit of the tubular-clincher design is that the risk of pinch flats is very low ( like the tubular tire ), yet it allows the use of the more popular clincher wheel.

* Non-pneumatic tire, another name for an airless tire

For example, De Poerderlé, writing in the 18th century, asserted, " Cet arbre tire son nom de l ' Arménie, province d ' Asie, d ' où il est originaire et d ' où il fut porté en Europe ..." (" this tree takes its name from Armenia, province of Asia, where it is native, and whence it was brought to Europe ...").

Gislaved used to have a large tire factory under the same name as the town but it has shut down.

( When he tells Adrian about this, he concludes his son is going to tire soon of his new name, Wole Mole.

Prior to the start of the 1999 season, Dunn Tire, a local chain of retail tire outlets, became the naming rights holder for the stadium, thus the name Dunn Tire Park.

" The latter name means that one could look at it until sundown, and not tire of seeing it.

The village elders began to tire of the jokes surrounding the name Bullock Smithy.

They were designed for quick and easy tire replacement during combat, hence the name.

Today, Uniroyal still uses the Tiger Paw brand name in its tire line.

The subsidiary which operated Australian plants under the name Uniroyal Tyre Company became Bridgestone Australia Ltd. and was traded on the Australian stock exchange as a majority-owned subsidiary of Japan's tire company.

The train continued to Wagontire Mountain, a name it later received when early settlers found a wagon tire there.