Metzeler
Sign in to savethumb|Metzeler elephant mascot of the 1990s Metzeler is a German motorcycle tyre company founded in 1863. Metzeler originally produced a variety of rubber and plastic products, expanding into aviation in 1890 and automotive and motorcycle tyres in 1892. The factory was destroyed in World War II and rebuilt after the war. In the 1950s and 1960s the American distributor of Metzeler tyres was Berliner Motor Corporation. After 1979, Metzeler focused only on motorcycle tyres, and was acquired by Pirelli in 1986.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- enterprise
- Country
- Germany
- Headquarters
- Munich
- Owned by
- Pirelli
- Parent organization
- Pirelli
- Legal form
- joint-stock company
- Followed by
- Bayer
- Official website
- www.metzeler.com
- Image
- METZELER-Elefant.jpg
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- Commons category
- Metzeler (Memmingen)
- inception
- 1863-01-01
- location of formation
- Munich
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1975-01-01
- has works in the collection
- Het Scheepvaartmuseum
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thumb|Metzeler elephant mascot of the 1990s Metzeler is a German motorcycle tyre company founded in 1863. Metzeler originally produced a variety of rubber and plastic products, expanding into aviation in 1890 and automotive and motorcycle tyres in 1892. The factory was destroyed in World War II and rebuilt after the war. In the 1950s and 1960s the American distributor of Metzeler tyres was Berliner Motor Corporation. After 1979, Metzeler focused only on motorcycle tyres, and was acquired by Pirelli in 1986.
==Notes==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Metzeler” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.