The Giant Tire Company, with C. E. Hart as president, moves to Findlay, Ohio, into buildings vacated by the defunct Toledo Findlay Tire Company. Total employment is 29. I. J. Cooper of Cincinnati, owner of several wholesale auto accessory stores, becomes a director of the company and contributes to its growth until his death in 1941. 1919 Fire destroys the main building of the Giant plant.
Reconstruction begins immediately on a new single story plant.