Saturday, February 15, 2014

Metzeler tires promo items

Kaiser Franz Josef, emperor of Austro-Hungary 1848-1916, was happy with them...
race victors with Benz cars on Metzeler tires
"Metzeler above everything in the world" - nothing modest here...
at some stage the German word for tire was changed from Pneumatik to Reifen

This firm was founded in 1863 in Munich, Germany; since 1986 it has been part of Pirelli.  A history of the firm and its products is here (Czech)

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