12 Facts About Trico

Trico is an American company that specializes in windshield wipers.

Trico, then known as Tri-Continental Corporation, invented the windshield wiper blade in 1917.

Trico is today one of the leading manufacturers of windshield wiping systems, windshield wiper blades and refills globally, with wiper plants on five continents.

Trico was involved in a patent dispute with William M Folberth who, with his brother Fred, invented a vacuum-powered wiper motor in 1919.

The patent was granted in 1922, and Trico later purchased the Folberth company to settle the dispute.

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Vacuum wiper motors produced by Trico carry an earliest patent number that dates back to 1928.

Trico produced an air-pressure powered system for heavy-duty trucks and large military vehicles, as well as marine applications such as Chris-Craft and others where diesel engines were used.

In 1998, Trico then moved their head office from Buffalo to Rochester Hills.

Trico eventually gave in after 21 weeks, offering the women workers their legal equal pay.

Trico were the unfortunate party to be recorded, by posterity, in the national press for this.

The right wing press coined the nickname "Costa del Trico, " referencing the Spanish "Costa" summer holidays fashionable at the time.

Trico had been the largest employer in Buffalo, New York, and DiFranco marked the devastation the company wrought with its decision to leave the city and shift operations to Mexico.