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Continental Tire North America.


The Continental Tire
For the German corporation, see Continental AG.


A Continental tire is an upright, external, mounted spare tire behind an automobile's trunk compartment. This term also describes a completely fake design that is stamped into the trunk lid.
 North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere.  plant in Mayfield Mayfield, city (1990 pop. 9,935), seat of Graves co., SW Ky., in an area of farms and clay deposits; founded 1823. It is an agricultural trade center with a tobacco market. , KY, will close in six months, eliminating 150 jobs. The company said the Mayfield plant was doomed by declining business conditions for passenger and light truck tires business, plus rising energy and materials costs.
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Title Annotation:Corporate, financial news
Publication:Rubber World
Date:Sep 1, 2006
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