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The Uniroyal Giant Tire was created by the United States Rubber Company for the 1964 New York World's Fair, where it functioned as a Ferris wheel. Since 1966 it has been a static display alongside Interstate 94 in Allen Park, Michigan , United States between the Southfield Freeway interchange and Outer Drive overpass.
The company formerly known as the United States Rubber Company, now Uniroyal, is an American manufacturer of tires and other synthetic rubber-related products, as well as variety of items for military use, such as ammunition, explosives, chemical weapons and operations and maintenance activities (O&MA) at the government-owned contractor-operated facilities. [1]
JC Reindl, Detroit Free Press October 23, 2024 at 7:13 PM A nearly two-decade-old vision for redeveloping the old Uniroyal site along the Detroit riverfront with housing has come to an end.
Detroit has a moratorium on permits for used tire sales, but the shop has a license and 9,000 new and used tires stacked to the ceiling, which helps explain the allure of the business.
Captured in images that span the decade, here's a look at Detroit in the 1980s.
Taylor was born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in Ellsworth, Michigan. [1] He gained brief fame outside the business world when he made an unsuccessful run for the Republican nomination in the U.S. presidential election of 1996, a campaign chronicled in his book Kill all the lawyers – and other ways to fix the government.
The Dominion Tire Plant, later known as the Uniroyal Tire Plant then the Uniroyal-Goodrich Tire Plant and today known as AirBoss Rubber Compounding is a rubber and tire company located on Glasgow Street in Kitchener, Ontario. It is the largest independent rubber mixing plant in North America.
When the Uniroyal tire plant opened in 1970, the whole town celebrated. City officials said at the time that Ardmore had competed against 60 other towns for the $75 million factory and won out ...