The Archive · 1938

Overseas Expansion

Road transport ihe world over has developed enormously during recent years and it is safe to say that there is no country which is not familiar with the name "Dunlop" It is a name which is associated with exccllence and with quality, a fact of which the firm is justly proud Dunlcp's invention has helped man, but it helped beast for hss also bullock carts in certain parts of the ast and West are fitted with these tyres, when it is found that the beast can carry heavier loads with great ease than with the d style wh Even our familiar rickshaw coolies have Dunlops fitted to their vehicles, though it is doubtful if any coolie re would dream of dissociating his rickshaw with the tyre he always known.

When the time comes that our ancient wheelbarrows of China d the Peking ci t are "shod" with tyres of ihe pneumatic order. then e shall know that the firm of Dunlop has no more worlds to conquer DT qoe 50 years ago to-day, John Boyd Dunlop was granted a patent for his invention of the pneumatic tyre which in half-a-century has revolutionized transport throughout the world.

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