General Tire [SEP] parent company
with General Tire and RKO General as subsidiaries.
GenCorp sold General Tire to German tire maker Continental AG in 1987. General Tire still exists today as part of Continental's American operations.
External links.
- General Tire website
- General Tire Club
RKO General
RKO General, Inc. (previously General Teleradio, RKO Teleradio Pictures, & RKO Teleradio) was the main holding company from 1959 through 1991 for the noncore businesses of the General Tire and Rubber Company and, after General Tire's reorganization in the 1980s, GenCorp. The business was based around the consolidation of its parent company's broadcasting interests, dating to 1943, and the RKO Pictures movie studio General Tire purchased in 1955. The holding company acquired the name of RKO General in 1959 after General Tire dissolved the