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

The Firestone company hired additional workers and raised its payroll to 130 employees. A short year later, the company produced more than 28,000 tires and sold more than $1 million worth of product.

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 ...

On February 7, 1938, a man by the name of Harvey S. Firestone died of coronary thrombosis—or, a blood clot in the heart. He was the founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, which he kicked ...

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 ...

Founded in 1900, Harvey Firestone's eponymous tire company originally supplied tires for firefighting equipment, wagons, buggies, and other non-powered transportation of the era.

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 ...

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 ...