(December 2009) Coup de Grace is the fourteenth album by The Stranglers released in 1998. The tracks on Coup de Grace represent a greater writing input from Jean Jacques Burnel (JJ Burnel) than on more recent outings; he also sings four of the ten tracks.
BFGoodrich, Cooper, Dunlop, Firestone, General, Goodyear, Michelin, and Yokohama currently build tires here in America, although these are not all truly American brands.
At the same time, solid rubber tires disappeared from the highways, mostly because of legislation that discouraged their use because they were hard on the roads. In 1898 Goodyear Tire and Rubber Companynamed after George Goodyear, the discoverer of vulcanized rubberwas formed in America by Frank Seiberling.