Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1916 — Pneumatic Tire Business. [ARTICLE]

Pneumatic Tire Business.

How many people realize the sensational development that the pneumatic tire business has experienced? The first company to undertake the manufacture of pneumatic tires was the Dunlop company, organized in Dublin, Ireland, in 1889, with a capital of about $75,000 to make tires for bicycles, and it rapidly grew to be a great business. Then came ffief automobile to add its demands, and today, only 27 years later, the pneumatic tire business of the world is estimated at the enormous sbm of $650,000,000.