B. F. Goodrich Co
of Akron, Ohio
1870 Dr. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich founded a rubber industry in North America, in Akron, Ohio.
At first, the factory made bicycle tyres, then car tyres that could handle the speed and load of the evolving automobile. This led Charles Goodrich, Benjamin Franklin's son, to establish the very first tyre research centre in the United States. Then entered the rapidly expanding industry of aeronautics.
1924 The Corporation decide to begin manufacturing in Great Britain in Lancashire, Mr F. E. Titus, vice-president of the International B. F. Goodrich Corporation of U.S.A., said in an interview yesterday[1]. The Ajax Rubber Works, at Leyland, in Lancashire, have been purchased for the purpose of manufacturing in this country Goodrich Tyres, rubber belting, and rubber hose and other products ...[2]
British office: Snow Hill, London (1905)
Predecessor at this address: The Goodrich Co
1909 Advertised Goodrich tyres[3]
1911 of Golden Lane, London EC[4]
1924 Public company. The British Goodrich Rubber Co was a wholly owned subsidiary of the B.F. Goodrich Company, Akron, Ohio.
1933 Acquired a controlling interest in India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works Co.
1934 The following year B.F. Goodrich Company sold most of its shares in the British company which at the same time changed its name to the British Tyre and Rubber Co.
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Sources of Information
- [1] Company website