Which company was founded and named after the inventor of vulcanised rubber in 1898, almost 4 decades after his death, by Frank Seiberling?
Seiberling Rubber Company Seiberling Rubber Company The Seiberling Rubber Company was an American tire manufacturer for motor vehicles. In 1898 Frank A. Seiberling acquired an old strawboard factory in Akron, Ohio and founded the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (naming it after Charles Goodyear, the inventor of vulcanized rubber). He served as the company's president for 15 years when, in 1921 the company was refinanced and reorganized. Frank Seiberling and his brother Charles resigned from the company and founded a rubber and tire company bearing his name. The Seiberling Rubber Company was founded in 1921 in Barberton, Ohio. In only six years Seiberling
Seiberling Rubber Company rose from 330th to 7th place in the tire industry. During World War II, Seiberling supplied tires for heavy artillery pieces. Seiberling is also credited for inventing the Saw-Tooth Tread and the tire Heat-Vents. Seiberling Tire's advertising in the 1940s through the 1950s was famous for the brand's slogan of "A name you can trust in Rubber." In the mid-1960s, Seiberling launched the SuperWideSport series, a bias-belted tire aimed to the Muscle Car market, booming at the time. The tire featured a whitewall on one side and a redline on the other, also common on the tire market at the