

| Subject: | Re: vanagon Digest - 16 Feb 2007 to 17 Feb 2007 - Special issue (#2007-213) |
| From: | d spence |
| Date: | Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:36:20 -0700 |
Uh Robert, Pirelli is Italian. History In 1872 , the twenty-four year old engineer Giovanni Battista Pirelli founded Pirelli & C. in Milan, establishing the first factory for the manufacture of rubber goods. By the end of the century he had begun to diversify into the production of insulated wires for telegraphy (1879) and undersea telegraph cables (1886), and had launched the first pneumatic bicycle tyre (1890). Pirelli's first pneumatic car tyre appeared in 1901 On Saturday, February 17, 2007, at 10:19 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote: > Pirelli still seems to think they are acceptable. > Although, the French are way ahead of most neanderthal > countries around issues of human body. Or perhaps > the French choose to ignore the nay-sayers and print > what they enjoy... I dunno....
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