Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is an American tire company founded by Harvey S. Firestone (1868–1938) in 1900 initially to supply solid rubber side-wire tires for fire apparatus, and later, pneumatic tires for wagons, carriages, and other forms of wheeled transportation common in the era. Firestone soon saw the huge potential for marketing tires for automobiles, and the company was a pioneer in the mass production of tires. Harvey S. Firestone had a friendship with Henry Ford and used this to become the original equipment supplier of Ford Motor Company automobiles and was also active in the replacement market. In 1988, the company was sold to the Japanese Bridgestone Corporation. We celebrate this remarkable tyre company with an scale model of a racing truck sponsored by Firestone …