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4 unusual facts about United States Rubber Company


Francis Lynde Stetson

He became general counsel of the International Mercantile Marine Company, the Northern Pacific Railway, the Southern Railway, and the United States Rubber Company; also director in several railway companies and other corporations.

Samuel P. Colt

In 1892, he merged it with several other companies he had acquired to form the United States Rubber Company.

Sherburne Hopkins

In 1892, Flint, also from an old Massachusetts family, had merged several rubber companies to form the monopolistic conglomerate United States Rubber Company.

United States Rubber Company

One of Uniroyal's best known products is the Tiger Paw tire introduced in the 1960s and included as original equipment for that decade's muscle cars such as the Pontiac GTO, which itself was promoted as The Tiger during its early years.



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