Alexis Louis Nihon, O.B.E. (May 15 1902 – April 8 1980) was a Belgian-born Canadian inventor and businessman. He was the inventor of the tubeless tire.

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  • Alexis Louis Nihon, O.B.E. (May 15 1902 – April 8 1980) was a Belgian-born Canadian inventor and businessman. He was the inventor of the tubeless tire. Born in Liège, Belgium, the son of Alexis Laurent Nihon and Marie Florentine Thiry, he moved to Canada when he was 18. In 1940, he started the glass manufacturer Compagnie industrielle du verre limitée in Saint-Laurent, Quebec; it was one of the few Canadian glass manufacturers during the Second World War. He sold it in the 1940s. In 1946, he started Corporation Alexis Nihon which would become one of the largest real estate companies in Canada. He was married to Alice Robert Nihon. They had five children. He died at his home in Nassau, Bahamas in 1980. In addition to the REIT, his name lives on as a major residential/commercial thoroughfare, Alexis Nihon Boulevard, in Saint-Laurent, and the Place Alexis Nihon shopping mall in downtown Montreal. (en)
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  • Alexis Louis Nihon, O.B.E. (May 15 1902 – April 8 1980) was a Belgian-born Canadian inventor and businessman. He was the inventor of the tubeless tire. (en)
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  • Alexis Nihon (en)
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