Tyres it would seem!

I noticed this on an old Transit van I parked next to.. ill be getting a set on the octy tomorrow

Was actually tyres first (early 1930s IIRC) then mobile phones...

Rob.

Well i never..

and i thought that being made in Indonesia that it would just be some cheap rip off!

Bloody hell , those tyres must be old.

They split from Nokia 20 years ago and are now branded Nokian.

Used nokian tyres on my mountain bike they were ok.

Being half Finnish (on my mother's side) I feel the urge to shed some light on this:

Nokia started already in 1865 as a paper mill and the company got its name from the Nokianvirta river (which in turn got its name from the ancient Finnish word nokia = sable):

The company activities extended to a rubber plant in 1898 (galoshes, wellingtons, tyres). In 1967 they amalgamated wit a cable manufacturer that already also developed systems for radiocommunication.

As Alex said, the conglomerate was split up during the 90's.

My Felly's galosches are Nokian's low budget mark Nordman (the Norseman ) - a little bit noisy but otherwise OK.

Being half Finnish (on my mother's side) I feel the urge to shed some light on this:

And being Brisky's resident Paper Scientist, its only right that I add a picture of the Nokia Paper Mill - now owned by Georgia Pacific....

I used to be friends with someone at the Georgia Pacific plant in Bolton, if you work there?

I swear this world is getting smaller! Only last week, I found out that my in-laws are very friendly one of the boffins who helped put away that Steve Wright guy (the serial killer, not the DJ!), who also used to work with someone I used to know from university, completely independent of SWMBO and her family...

Back to Nokia(n) tyres, I used to have some on my MTB, too!

How weird is that! I actually own a Nokia mobile phone!!!