Object Details
- Description
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.
- ID Number
- 1981.0874.7
- catalog number
- 1981.0874.7
- accession number
- 1981.0874
- Object Name
- Bicycle Handlebar Grip
- Measurements
- opening: 25 mm; x in
- overall: 5 in x in; 12.7 cm x 2.50012 cm
- overall: 5 1/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 13.0175 cm x 3.4925 cm
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_550
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a0-ebcf-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
