Firestone has been making tires since 1900 and is the official tire supplier of NXT IndyCar racing. Who owns the company, and ...

Henry Ford had one thing to say to the clerk at the front counter of Columbus Buggy Works in Detroit: “I’m here to see Harvey Firestone.” It was 1895. Ford was using bicycle tires for a car ...

The founder of the company whose slogan for many years was “Where the rubber meets the road” had much to do with paving the way for the current truck transportation network. University of ...

Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. Firestone Tire ... 1941–1963. Firestone Tire and Rubber Company 1941–1963. Industry: Automotive & Aerospace; Era: 1940; Firestone inaugurated the company’s Liberian ...

In 1944, the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company approved a $1 million donation to finance Princeton’s new library — with one condition. The Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library had to serve the company’s ...

Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Nevin walks with board member Kimball C. Firestone, the grandson of Harvey S. Firestone Sr., at E.J. Thomas Hall before a ...

MIDDLETOWN, Md. — Kimball Curtis Firestone, former executive of the tire company founded by his grandfather Harvey S. Firestone, died June 3 at his home in Middletown. He was 90. Firestone was born in ...

But in the 1980s, the company surprised the industry when it announced that it was offloading 75% of its manufacturing division to focus on selling tires rather than making them.The announcement ...