developed, tires were metal bands fitted around wooden wheels to hold the wheel together under load and to prevent wear and tear. Early rubber tires were solid...
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and Europe and distributes tires and automotive components through fourteen sales companies throughout the world. Toyo Tires posted net sales of 497B Japanese...
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The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is an American multinational tire manufacturer headquartered in Akron, Ohio. Goodyear manufactures tires for passenger...
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Shane Gillis' Netflix show 'Tires,' the humor doesn't veer far from juvenile". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 27, 2024. Tires on Netflix Tires at IMDb ...
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cross-ply tire 1- or 2-digit number: Diameter in inches of the rim that the tires are designed to fit. There is the rare exception of metric-diameter tires, such...
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Tires, LLC., is a tire and auto service shop headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Big O Tires is one of North America's largest retail tire franchisors...
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Discount Tire does not manufacture tires, it sells brands made by external manufacturers as "exclusive" tires. Discount Tire operates as America's Tire in regions...
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automotive tires in North America for over 75 years. In 1906, Henry Ford chose Firestone to supply tires for its car models. In 1918, Firestone Tire and Rubber...
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-Division Passenger and Light Truck Tires". Retrieved 2009-12-24. "Continental Corporation -Division Commercial Vehicle Tires". Retrieved 2009-12-24. "Summer...
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tire (also spelled as tubeless tyre in Commonwealth English) is a pneumatic tire that does not require a separate inner tube. Unlike pneumatic tires which...
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speeds for limited distances. First developed by tire manufacturer Michelin in the 1930s, run-flat tires were introduced to the public market in the 1980s...
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subsidiary of Chinese tire conglomerate Doublestar. An industrial conglomerate chaebol, Kumho Tire manufactures a full range of budget tires under the Kumho...
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União Recreativa e Desportiva de Tires is a Portuguese football club located in Tires, Portugal. Tires' colours are green and white. Official website...
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the tire flexes, reducing the tire's rolling friction. This allows vehicles with radial tires to achieve better fuel economy than with bias-ply tires. It...
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Off-road tires (Off-road tyre) are a category of vehicle tires that use deep tread to provide more traction on unpaved surfaces such as loose dirt, mud...
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Triangle Group (redirect from Triangle Tires)
Tyre) is a Chinese tire company that manufactures a range of tires for vehicles from passenger cars to construction equipment and tires fit for special purposes...
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These tires are a challenging source of waste, due to the large volume produced, the durability of the tires, and the components in the tire that are...
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Hankook (redirect from Hankook Tires)
The company now supplies tires as original equipment to various automakers. In addition to producing about 102 million tires annually, the company also...
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under the name Heung-A Tire Company. In 1985, Nexen dedicated a facility in Yangsan, Korea, to the production of radial tires. The company changed their...
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for automobile tires since the shift to the use of tubeless tires in the late 1950s. Bicycle tire irons are still in use for those tires which have a separate...
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Schwalbe Tires is a brand name of Ralf Bohle GmbH, a German manufacturer of pneumatic tires for bicycles and wheelchairs. Schwalbe produces a wide range...
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Whitewall tires or white sidewall (WSW) tires are tires having a stripe or entire sidewall of white rubber. These tires were most commonly used from the...
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fuel economy, and increased tire wear due to under-inflated tires through early recognition of a hazardous state of the tires. This functionality first...
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Maxxis (redirect from Maxxis Tires)
Yuanlin City, Changhua County, Taiwan, by Luo Jye. Maxxis Tyres and CST tires are wholly owned subsidiaries of Cheng Shin. The company began as a producer...
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extends the useful life of a set of tires, but the value of this is disputed. The differing weight placed on the tires by the front and rear axles causes...
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bicycle tires are pneumatic, the stiffness of the tires is easily controlled by controlling the air pressure inside of the tire. Airless tires utilize...
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BFGoodrich (category Tires)
Goodrich Tire Company) by the French tire maker Michelin. BFGoodrich was the first American tire manufacturer to make radial tires. It made tires for the...
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the tires during the busy summer season. The brothers opened a retail store at Yonge and Gould Streets in Toronto, Ontario. A product focus on tires was...
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truck tires, and has subsidiaries that specialize in medium truck, motorcycle, and racing tires. With headquarters in Findlay, Ohio, Cooper Tire has 60...
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