Firestone Tyre & Rubber Co Ltd

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  • Rubber & plastic products manufacture Rubber products inc tyre manufacture

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Traced origins to a selling agency established in Tottenham Court Road, London, in c1915 to market the products of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co of Akron, Ohio, established in 1900. 1928 Firestone acquired a large site on Great West Road, Brentford, and incorporated Firestone Tyre & Rubber Co in UK to manufacture tyres from a large modern factory. Factory closed 1979

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