Goodyear Tires at West Coast Tire and Service

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE TIRES

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1898-1916

1898 Frank A. Seiberling borrowed $3,500 from his brother-in-law Lucius C. Miles for the down payment to buy an abandoned strawberry factory in Akron, founding the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

1899 Automobile tires are added to the original product line of bicycle tires, carriage tires, and horseshoe pads

1901 The first advertisement with the wingfoot trademark appears in the Saturday Evening Post

1908 The first diamond-studded All-Weather tread design is adopted, and will be used with only minor modifications for nearly 40 years

1914 All the cars in the Indianapolis 500 use Goodyear tires

1916 Goodyear becomes the world's largest tire company, initiating the slogan "More people ride on Goodyear tires than on any other kind"

2001-TODAY

2001 The U.S. Postal Service selects Goodyear to be their exclusive ground tire supplier for the next 10 years

2003 The Eagle F1 GS-D3 wins the NorTech Innovation Award

2005 Goodyear introduces Duraseal, a revolutionary commercial tire technology that repairs punctures when they occur

2007 Government funding facilitates a Goodyear-NASA partnership, resulting in Goodyear developing tires for NASA's Mars exploration

2008 Audit Integrity and Forbes magazine recognize Goodyear as one of America's most trustworthy companies

2009 Goodyear is recognized as one of the Greenest Big Companies in America by Newsweek magazine.... Goodyear's Assurance Fuel Max tire is named one of the 100 Most Innovative Products of the Year by Popular Science magazine