What were the michelin tire plants in operation in 1965?
Michelin did not operate any plnats in the United States between the Great Depression (1929/1930) and 1970. Read the short company history below: After toying with making rubber balls, Edouard Daubrée and Aristide Barbier formed a partnership in Clermont-Ferrand, France, in 1863 and entered the rubber business in earnest. Both men soon died, but Barbier in-law André Michelin, a successful businessman, took over the company in 1886. André recruited his brother, Edouard, a Parisian artist, to run the company, and in 1889 it was renamed Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin. That year Edouard found that air-filled tires made bicycling more comfortable. But pneumatic tires were experimental and, because they were glued to the rims, required hours to change. In 1891 Edouard made a detachable bicycle tire that took only 15 minutes to change. The Michelins promoted their tires by persuading cyclists to use them in long-distance races where punctures were likely. They demonstrated the
