Bib Michelin Man -Bibendum –original from Michelin Dealer- 1966 Made In Finland

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Bib Michelin Man
Bibendum
–original from Michelin Dealer
Marked 1966 Made In Finland
My Family had several tires stores and gas stations in Los Angeles, from 1957 up to the late 1980’s
around 1974 we became one of the first few
Authorized
Michelin Dealer’s in Los Angeles
This Michelin man
Bibendum
(Bib) was intended to go on top of Michelin Tire Dealers service truck, (not to be confused with the more common countertop display Bib.) My Dad thought he was too cute to get beat up on a service truck, so this pampered Bib sat in a display case in our main lobby.
After the business was sold (1980’s) I brought Bib to my home office and he has spent all these years in a smoke free home.
Bib is in Excellent shape no cracks, a few tiny scuffs,
No fading
on the letters as can be seen in the pictures Bib is in great – to near mint shape, especially for a nearly 55 year old!!!
Bib Looks great and he is ready to head off to his new home , he has NEVER been mounted.
Bib is approximately 19” tall.
Marked 1966 Made In Finland
And weighs 4-5 pounds.
Made of hollow hard plastic so you could put a light in him.
Bibendum, lovely referred to “Bib” or as the Michelin Man. is the official mascot of the
French Michelin tire company SCA
the world’s Largest Tire manufacture,
Introduced in 1894 at the Lyon Exhibition where the two Michelin brothers
Édouard
and
André
had a display stand, Bibendum is one of the world's oldest and most recognizable trademarks.
Today
Michelin manufactures tires for nearly everything, from the
space shuttles
to your race winning mountain bike tires.
Michelin Brothers History
n 1889 two brothers,
Édouard Michelin
and
André Michelin
, ran a rubber factory in
Clermont-Ferrand
, France. One day, a cyclist whose pneumatic tyre needed repair turned up at the factory. The tyre was glued to the rim, and it took over three hours to remove and repair the tyre, which then needed to be left overnight to dry. The next day, Édouard Michelin took the repaired bicycle into the factory yard to test. After only a few hundred meters, the tyre failed. Despite the setback, Édouard was enthusiastic about the pneumatic tyre, and he and his brother worked on creating their own version, one that did not need to be glued to the rim. Michelin was incorporated on 28 May 1889. In 1891 Michelin took out its first patent for a
removable pneumatic tyre
which was used by
Charles Terront
to win the world's first long-distance cycle race, the 1891
Paris–Brest–Paris
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