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2. Toyo Tires - Wikipedia

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   Toyo Tire & Rubber acquires a capital interest in Cheng Shin-Toyo Tire & Rubber (China) Co., Ltd December 1998: The Itami Manufacturing Complex is closed September 1999: Toyo Tire & Rubber forms a business partnership with Kinugawa Rubber Industrial Co., Ltd., April 2000: The East Japan Automotive Parts Technical Center is opened December 2000

3. List of tire companies - Wikipedia

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   Titan Tire Corporation [79] USA: 1993 Goodyear (farm tires), Titan, Continental (OTR only) [80] Tigar Tyres Serbia: 1959 Tigar: Tomket Tires [81] [non-primary source needed] Czech Republic: 1997 Tomket (Czech brand of low category is made in China) Toyo Tire & Rubber [82] Japan: 1945 Nitto, Silverstone, Toyo: Trayal Corporation Serbia: 1955 ...

4. Radial tire - Wikipedia

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   A cross-section of a tire. Number 12 indicates the radial ply. Numbers 14 and 16 are bias plies. A radial tire (more properly, a radial-ply tire) is a particular design of vehicular tire. In this design, the cord plies are arranged at 90 degrees to the direction of travel, or radially (from the center of the tire).

5. Firestone Tire and Rubber Company - Wikipedia

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   Radial tires were introduced to the U.S. market by rivals B.F. Goodrich and Michelin in the late 1960s, and Firestone lacked their own radial tire. The first radial tire developed and produced by Firestone was the ill-fated Firestone 500 radial. Manufacturing of the new tire was performed on equipment designed to manufacture bias-ply tires. [41]

6. Tire - Wikipedia

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   Following the 1968 Consumer Reports announcement of the superiority of the radial design, radial tires began an inexorable climb in market share, reaching 100% of the North American market in the 1980s. [20] Radial tire technology is now the standard design for essentially all automotive tires, but other methods have been used. [26]

7. Racing slick - Wikipedia

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   The first production slick tyre was developed by M&H Tires in the early 1950s for use in drag racing. By eliminating any grooves cut into the tread, such tyres provide the largest possible contact patch to the road, [ 5 ] and maximize dry traction for any given tyre dimension.