The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

Japanese: グッドイヤー・タイヤ・アンド・ラバー[会社](英語表記)The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
The world's largest tire manufacturer, based in the United States. Headquartered in Akron, Ohio. Founded in Akron in 1898 by Frank Seiberling. Originally a rubber company run by Charles Goodyear, son of Charles Goodyear, inventor of the rubber vulcanization process. Starting out by manufacturing bicycle tires, the company soon switched to automobile tires, and by 1916 had become the largest tire manufacturer in the United States. Since 1910, the company has also established production subsidiaries overseas, and started operating a rubber plantation in Sumatra, becoming a huge international trust by the late 1920s.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
アメリカにある世界最大のタイヤ・メーカー。本社オハイオ州アクロン。1898年セーバーリングFrank Seiberlingによってアクロンに設立された。前身は,ゴム硫化法を発明したチャールズ・グッドイヤーの子チャールズが経営していたゴム会社である。自転車タイヤの製造からスタートし,まもなく自動車タイヤに転じ,1916年にはアメリカ最大のタイヤ・メーカーになった。また1910年以降海外に生産子会社を設立,スマトラでもゴム園経営を開始,20年代後半には巨大な国際的トラストになった。

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