The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company never built any of their own bicycles but contracted through different manufacturers such as Murray Ohio, Westfield, and Colson to build Goodyear badged bicycles. In 1941, Goodyear sold the Double Eagle Clipper and Double Eagle Deluxe. Designed by Wilbur Henry Adams, a noted industrial designer of the time, they were manufactured by the Colson Company of Elyria Ohio for only one year for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Both of these bikes are the Double Eagle Deluxe which featured built in tail light and the exclusive Colson “Cushioner” spring fork. Colson offered the Clipper after the war under their own name but the bike no longer featured the Cushioner fork and was not as deluxe as the pre-war Goodyear versions. Owner: Shawn Sweeney