The History Of Goodyear Company
Posted on April 2, 2010
Filed Under Dunlop Tires, Goodyear Tires, Interesting
The history of the Goodyear company started in 1898 when Frank Seiberling decided to name his newly-founded company after Charles Goodyear, great inventor of rubber compounds. The full name of the company – Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. Frank Seiberling purchased his first plant for the money borrowed from his stepbrother. A former plant on the production of cardboard on the bank of the Cuyahoga River in eastern Acron, Ohio became the first enterprise of the company. Rubber and cotton were to be transferred from the other part of the world in a small town with restricted railway network. The staff of the company included only thirteen workers who were producing tires for bicycles and carts. The company also produced fire hoses and even rubber poker chips.
Seiberling also invented a trade mark – a sandal with wings that appeared in the newspaper commercials already in 1901. It was also the year when Seiberling offered his tires to a young car producer Henry Ford for his first racing car. It was the first time when Goodyear tires participated in motor races.
In 1903 the first tubeless tire was patented, in 1908 – the first all-weather tire. In 1909 Goodyear opened “aerospace” page – the company presented special tires for planes. Before this skis or bicycle tires were used for landing. In 1910 the company opened a plant in Canada and entered international markets. In a year Goodyear tires “flew” over the whole continent – from Long Beach in New York to Long Beach in California. Of course the flight wasn’t non-stop and took 84 days. In 1912 the first airship of the company appeared. In the same year Goodyear started its activity in Europe – London representative office was opened.
The Goodyear company passed a way from the first bicycle tire to the largest tire manufacturing company. This honorable title was given to the company already in 1916. It was the time when the slogan “Goodyear tires are used wider than any others” appeared. In 1926 Goodyear became the biggest tire company. These first legendary years predetermined its working pace that can be felt even today. At the moment the company produces tires for almost all kinds of transport – from motorcycles to buses.
Today the Goodyear company is the largest tire producer in the world, it works on six continents and its sales volume amounts to more than 15 billion dollars a year. Besides tires under Goodyear trade mark the company also manufactures tires of other world-renowned brands: Dunlop, Kelly, Fulda, Lee, Sava and Debica. The company also produces rubber technical goods and polymers for automobile and industrial markets.
Innovations – uninterrupted stream of new ideas, materials and technologies – has always constituted the basis of the company’s activity. In 1943 Goodyear founded the first research laboratory that later got thousands of patents. Many of the Goodyear specialists’ inventions were applied not only in tire and automobile industry but also for the production of artificial heart and joints, glues, artificial lawns for sport grounds, food packing, etc.
Today the Goodyear research center employs scientists and engineers from all over the world who contribute to the state-of-the-art scientific field engaged in the production of rubbers and polymers.
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