Bicycle Handlebar Grip
notes: label: Description
content: The “Flex-grip” inscription on this red vinyl bicycle handlebar grip was introduced and trademarked by the Hungerford Plastics Corp. in 1949. Daniel C. Hungerford organized this firm as a research and development company in New Jersey, in 1942. After a reorganization in 1946, the Hungerford Plastics Corp. built a factory in New Jersey and began manufacturing vinyl products.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0874.7
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0874.7
label: accession number
content: 1981.0874
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bicycle Handlebar Grip
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: opening: 25 mm; x in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x in; 12.7 cm x 2.50012 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 13.0175 cm x 3.4925 cm