Goodyear Pimpin’

06. Oct, 2016 0 Comments

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a woman adjusts her stocking by the light of the new Goodyear illuminated tyres. The tyre is made from a single piece of synthetic rubber and is brightly lit by bulbs mounted inside the wheel rim. The Goodyear Tyre Company intend to produce the tyres in a variety of colours

above photos by Douglas Miller, October 16, 1961

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John J Hartz, tire development manager for The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, checks the intensity of the glow emitted by an experimental translucent tire as Engineer John Corl looks on. The tire is lighted from within by 18 tiny bulbs

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cover of Overseas News, a Goodyear publication, December 1960

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Goodyear tries out glow-in-the-dark wheels in 1960s

 
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