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2 unusual facts about B.F. Goodrich


B.F. Goodrich

Benjamin Goodrich, a physician and industrialist who founded what became the B.F. Goodrich Company, a tire and rubber manufacturer

Goodrich Corporation, an aerospace manufacturer and defense company that is descended from the former B.F. Goodrich Company


City Plan for Cincinnati

It was let by Alfred Bettman, a Cincinnati lawyer, Ladislas Segoe, an immigrant planner from Hungary, and George B. Ford and Ernest P. Goodrich, of New York the owners of the first American planning consulting firm.

Constellation Space Suit

The design of the suit was announced by NASA on June 11, 2008, and it will be manufactured by Houston, Texas-based Oceaneering International, the first company other than the David Clark Company, Hamilton Sundstrand, and ILC Dover (and, before 1964, B.F. Goodrich) to produce life-support hardware, as a prime contractor, for in-flight space use.

Dominion Tire Plant

In 1966, the company’s corporate name was changed to Uniroyal, and in the 1980s Uniroyal merged with B.F. Goodrich.

Gilberto Zaldívar

Zaldívar was hired by the local affiliate of B.F. Goodrich, a position that lasted until 1961 when his personal disagreements with the direction of the government of Fidel Castro led him to emigrate to the United States, where he found an accounting job with Diners Club in New York City and worked his way up to become an executive there.

James Goodrich

James F. Goodrich (1913–2012), United States Under Secretary of the Navy

Lord Willin'

In 2010, B.F. Goodrich launched a series of tire commercials starring snowboarder Shaun White and featuring the track "Young Boy".

Marvin Breckinridge Patterson

She was born Mary Marvin Breckinridge October 2, 1905 in New York City, to John C. Breckinridge, of the prominent Kentucky Breckinridge family, and Isabella Goodrich Breckinridge, daughter of B. F. Goodrich.

SagamoreHill Broadcasting

The company, which was founded in 2003, is a joint venture of the investment firm Duff Ackerman & Goodrich of San Francisco, California and former Benedek Broadcasting and Spartan Communications executive Louis Wall (who is also CEO of the group).

Thomas Newman O'Neill, Jr.

He was a law clerk to Judge Herbert F. Goodrich, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit from 1953 to 1954, and to Justice Harold H. Burton, Supreme Court of the United States from 1954 to 1955.


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Navy Mark IV

B.F. Goodrich would only be used after Mercury for the production of the landing gear tires for the Space Shuttle, but this has since been done by Michelin.