Dunlop Rubber was a British multinational company involved in the manufacture of various rubber goods. Its business was founded in 1889 by Harvey du Cros and he involved John Boyd Dunlop who had re-invented and developed the first pneumatic tyre.
The story of how Dunlop became inspired to begin producing tyres sounds today like a legend, comparable to that of Archimedes and his “Eureka” moment. In 1888 the Irishman was observing his son outside the house riding his tricycle on bumpy cobblestones. The tricycle had hard rubber tyres, which made it difficult for the boy to gain speed, and also made the ride uncomfortable. Dunlop decided to help him by gluing a thin layer of rubber around the wheels, and then inflating it using a football pump. The “valve” was the top of a baby’s feeding bottle!
From this innocent game there emerged one of the most important inventions in car history. John B. Dunlop had created the basis for the first pneumatic tyre. Just a year later this Belfast vet’s invention was put to use on a traditional bicycle. A little-known cyclist used the bike to secure a series of decisive race victories. The secret of his success? Pneumatic tyres.
Naturally Dunlop soon patented his work (31 October 1888), and in 1889, together with several Dublin businessmen, he set up the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company. A year later in Dublin he opened his first tyre factory, from which bicycle tyres were being sold after just a few months to Australia, and by Christmas 1890 to the United States. The firm expanded impressively in its first years – in 1893 it began production at two foreign plants, in Hanau in Germany (now Dunlop’s research centre) and in Australia, and later in the US.
Dunlop also opened an office in Melbourne. Soon the firm’s products were being sold over practically all of Western Europe, in the United States and Canada, as well as in the southern hemisphere. By the end of the decade Dunlop’s Dublin factory was no longer able to meet the demand for tyres for bicycles, which had become a very popular means of transport. Therefore production was moved to Coventry in 1898, and four years later to a huge site of more than 160 hectares in Erdington near Birmingham, with an impressive building called Fort Dunlop, where the firm had all of its offices alongside its modern factory.
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The story of how Dunlop became inspired to begin producing tyres sounds today like a legend, comparable to that of Archimedes and his “Eureka” moment. In 1888 the Irishman was observing his son outside the house riding his tricycle on bumpy cobblestones. The tricycle had hard rubber tyres, which made it difficult for the boy to gain speed, and also made the ride uncomfortable. Dunlop decided to help him by gluing a thin layer of rubber around the wheels, and then inflating it using a football pump. The “valve” was the top of a baby’s feeding bottle!
From this innocent game there emerged one of the most important inventions in car history. John B. Dunlop had created the basis for the first pneumatic tyre. Just a year later this Belfast vet’s invention was put to use on a traditional bicycle. A little-known cyclist used the bike to secure a series of decisive race victories. The secret of his success? Pneumatic tyres.
Naturally Dunlop soon patented his work (31 October 1888), and in 1889, together with several Dublin businessmen, he set up the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company. A year later in Dublin he opened his first tyre factory, from which bicycle tyres were being sold after just a few months to Australia, and by Christmas 1890 to the United States. The firm expanded impressively in its first years – in 1893 it began production at two foreign plants, in Hanau in Germany (now Dunlop’s research centre) and in Australia, and later in the US.
Dunlop also opened an office in Melbourne. Soon the firm’s products were being sold over practically all of Western Europe, in the United States and Canada, as well as in the southern hemisphere. By the end of the decade Dunlop’s Dublin factory was no longer able to meet the demand for tyres for bicycles, which had become a very popular means of transport. Therefore production was moved to Coventry in 1898, and four years later to a huge site of more than 160 hectares in Erdington near Birmingham, with an impressive building called Fort Dunlop, where the firm had all of its offices alongside its modern factory.
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