Frog on the right.
Posted on 05/26/2006 12:02:39 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
PARIS -- Edouard Michelin, the co-managing partner of France's Michelin, the world's leading tire maker, was killed in a boating accident, the company said Friday.
A short statement from the company gave no details about his death or the accident. It said that another managing partner, Michel Rollier, would take over direction of the company. A company official told Dow Jones Newswires that Mr. Michelin, 42 years old, died in a boating accident. The accident took place near Ile de Sein, off Brittany's coast.
Mr. Michelin took over the company's reins from his father, Francois Michelin, in 1999.
Michelin is the world's leading tire maker with a 20% global market share. It started up in 1889 in the small town of Clermont-Ferrand in central France. Two brothers, Edouard and André Michelin, converted a struggling family factory that made farm machinery and rubber balls into a tire manufacturer, producing the first pneumatic tires for cars.
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tire fire pyre?
tyre pyre fire higher sire
( use southern version of higher)
Michelin makes a damn fine tire.
Frog on the right.
I know...I hate to buy French. But the tires are good.
Had he been wearing a PFD, he may have lived.
Big Tire?
But apparently, a much too fragile Edouard.
I'll stick with Cooper tires thanks.
Okay. They're cheaper.
How about some Interco Super Swamper Boggers?
The circumstances of the shipwreck were still unexplained.
'Nobody saw anything, nobody heard anything. The sea was calm, but there was a thick fog that didn't lift until the middle of the day,' a spokesman for the Atlantic maritime prefecture said.
Edouard Michelin's body was found in the water near the island of Sein, off the coast of Finisterre in northwest France.
Police were still searching for the body of a local official who was with Michelin in the boat.
That's near the Ile of Lucy, for those if you in Rio Linda.
"Interco Super Swamper Boggers"!!!!
No swampers for my truck ... too loud and don't forget, your fender needs to cover the entire tire or you don't get an inspection sticker.
Cooper ATR's are fine for my Dodge Ram CTD and the Lifeliner II's for my Jetta.
Yep. I've got a set on my truck that have over 65,000 miles on them and they've got at least another 20k of tread on them. Expensive--and, yes, French--but amazingly long-lived.
}:-)4
Hubby says he was a good guy. This from someone not really fond of the French.
Didn't Michelin make use of US POWs in Vietnam on their rubber plantations? I seem to remember my dad saying this when I was a kid, at the same time he admonished me to not buy Michelin tires.
I had Michelins on a Taurus wagon for 80k miles(about the lifetime of that crapmobile) they still had a lot of tread left.It's about the only good thing the frenchies make.
LTX MS advocate, here.
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