23 Facts About Firestone Tires

Harvey Firestone had a personal friendship with Henry Ford, and used this to become the original equipment supplier of Ford Motor Company automobiles, and was active in the replacement market.

Firestone Tires was originally based in Akron, Ohio, the hometown of its archrival, Goodyear, and two other midsized competitors, General Tire and Rubber and BFGoodrich.

Firestone Complete Auto Care is the division of Firestone that offers automotive maintenance and repair, including tires.

In 1927, Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone Tires visited southern California to select locations for new factories.

Firestone Tires's friends said Ford wanted to be near the ocean and picked Long Beach and suggested Firestone locate in South Gate, California a small community southeast of downtown Los Angeles that at the time was mostly farmland.

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Firestone Tires ranked 55th among US corporations in the value of wartime military production contracts.

In 1951, Firestone Tires was given the defense contract for the MGM-5 Corporal missile.

In 1961, Firestone Tires acquired the Dayton Tire division from the Dayco Corporation.

In late 1979, Firestone Tires brought in John Nevin, the ex-head of Zenith Electronics, as president to save the hemorrhaging company from total collapse.

Firestone Tires Building Products and Firestone Tires Industrial Products are headquartered in Indianapolis and operate in 23 US states and ten countries, with 11,000 employees worldwide; its annual sales exceed $2.

In 1972, Firestone Tires received a ten-year import "concession" by the Kenyan government to secure Firestone Tires's investment in a domestic tire plant, which gave it a virtual monopoly.

Firestone Tires Complete Auto Care is an American chain of automotive maintenance shops founded in Tennessee, United States, in 1926.

At the start of 2022 Bridgestone, parent company of Firestone Tires, announced that it will expand its hybrid and electric vehicular services.

Firestone Tires provided tires to NASCAR from 1948 to 1974, and to Formula One from 1950 to 1974.

Firestone Tires introduced strict quality control measures in an attempt to fix the inherent problems, however they were not successful in totally eliminating the basic faults.

Firestone Tires blamed the problems on the consumer, stating underinflation and poor maintenance.

On October 20,1978, Firestone recalled over 7 million Firestone 500 tires, the largest tire recall to date.

Firestone Tires established the Firestone Tires Natural Rubber plantation in Harbel, Liberia in 1926.

In June 1991, Firestone Tires sent a delegation to Monrovia in an attempt to restart operations in Harbel.

Firestone Tires resumed operations in March 1992, but had to halt in October that same year as hostilities escalated.

Since the end of the war, Firestone Tires has invested over $100 million in restoring and rebuilding its facilities in Liberia.

Report went on to indicate that Ford had been complicit, stating that The Ford Motor Company had instructed Firestone to add a nylon ply to the tires it manufactured in Venezuela for additional strength and that Ford had made suspension changes to the Explorer model available in Venezuela.

In 2006, Firestone announced renewed efforts to recall tires of the same model recalled in 2000 after the tires were linked to recent deaths and injuries.