Budd–Michelin rubber-tired rail cars Budd–Michelin rubber-tired rail cars The Budd–Michelin rubber-tired rail cars were built by the Budd Company in the United States between 1931 and 1933 using French firm Michelin's "Micheline" rail car design. Michelin built its first rail car in 1929, and by 1932 had built a fleet of nine cars that all featured innovative and distinctive pneumatic tires. In September 1931, an agreement signed between the two companies allowed Budd to use the new rubber rail tires on its shot-welded, stainless-steel carbodies, and at the same time allowed Michelin to expand into the American market. After building two demonstrators in what
Dunlop Semtex rubber factory, Brynmawr January 2015, the chimney joined to the boiler house was forced crashing down by strong winds causing power cuts around the town. Dunlop Semtex rubber factory, Brynmawr The Brynmawr Rubber Factory was a notable building situated in Brynmawr in Wales. It was designed between 1946 and 1951 by The Architect's Co-Op, a group of Architecture students from the AA in London, in collaboration with engineer Ove Arup. It was built for the Brimsdown Rubber Company to produce various products (mainly tyres) and is considered by many as a Modernist icon and as an exemplar of 'Festival of Britain' period architecture.