Record #:

11315

Author(s):

MacFayden, Alex

Abstract:

People laughed when Albert Harrelson built the first retread rubber plant in North Carolina. They said it would never succeed. Harrelson Rubber Co. received support from B. B. Walker, president of Walker Shoe Co., who bankrolled the new company. Walker and Harrelson built a plant in Asheboro, and it produces over 20,000 pounds of retread rubber a day. Projected sales for the first year are estimated at $2 million. No one is laughing now.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 33 Issue 20, Mar 1966, p13, 38, il

Subject(s):

Tires--Retreading and recapping--Asheboro; Harrelson Rubber Co. (Asheboro)