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- ↑ "Walter Sherbondy Pneumatic Tyre: Patent No: 499,600". patents.google.com. 1893-06-13.
- ↑ Jr, Quentin R. Skrabec (2014-01-23). Rubber: An American Industrial History. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-1217-1.
- ↑ U.S. Patent No.635,141
- ↑ B. F. Goodrich Company (1918). The Growth of an Ideal, Embracing the History of the Goodrich Company, and the Economoy of Factory and Branch Organization and Operation. Superior Printing Company. p. 11.