A Hundred Years of Pirelli Truck
In the Pirelli Historical Archives, among other documents dating back to 1911, there is a product list with sizes and prices of tyres the company produced at that time. It is here we see the size “1000 x 150” scribbled in by hand. This was the size that, for the first time, made truck weights possible on pneumatic tyres.
A hundred years have passed since those first experiments with giant tyres. A hundred year anniversary that Pirelli has celebrated at the Izmit facilities in Turkey with a photo exhibit and a video, produced by the Pirelli Foundation, that traces the company’s history producing pneumatic tyres for industrial vehicles.


In the Pirelli Historical Archives, among other documents dating back to 1911, there is a product list with sizes and prices of tyres the company produced at that time. It is here we see the size “1000 x 150” scribbled in by hand. This was the size that, for the first time, made truck weights possible on pneumatic tyres.
A hundred years have passed since those first experiments with giant tyres. A hundred year anniversary that Pirelli has celebrated at the Izmit facilities in Turkey with a photo exhibit and a video, produced by the Pirelli Foundation, that traces the company’s history producing pneumatic tyres for industrial vehicles.