Michelin Tire

Michelin was a company founded in 1889 and one of the first things that it manufactured was brake pads. This was their first venture into the transportation field. Seeing the difficulties of repairing tires, that were in those days more used by bicycles, Michelin ventured into designing a tire that was easy to repair and could be detached from the rim. They adapted this technology to pneumatic car tires and first used them in a car race in 1895. In 1898 the caricature the Michelin Man was first created. Michelin has always been at the forefront of tire innovations and is today well established in all the continents of the world with manufacturing facilities everywhere backed by their constant research and improvements in technology.