Firestone Tire and Rubber Company

In 1926 the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company established what became a vast rubber plantation operation centred on Harbel. Liquid latex and crepe rubber are shipped via the company’s river port to Monrovia (32 miles west) for export. At Harbel, Firestone operates a hospital, a hydroelectric power plant,…

…for his establishment of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, which was for some 80 years a major U.S. tire manufacturer.

…for them when the American Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, worried lest its supplies of raw material should become a British colonial monopoly, secured a new American loan for Liberia and began to operate a one-million-acre plantation concession in the hinterland of Monrovia. The country was now supplied with a…

The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company obtained a concession of 1,000,000 acres (400,000 hectares) for a rubber plantation in 1926. At the same time, a loan was arranged through the Finance Corporation of America, a Firestone subsidiary. Using this private loan, the Liberian government consolidated and…

…he joined forces with the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company to form the Oldfield Tire Company, of which he served as president.