Period Cyclists Seen at Firm's Jubilee London, July 28.
The 50th anniversary of John Boyd Dunlop's application of patent rights for the first pneumatic tyre was celebrated today at Birmingham, where Dunlop tyres are made.
Some 1,500 cyclists this afternoon rode in parties of 50 from Birmingham to Fort Dunlop in celebration of their own Diamond Jubilee. The reconstruction of the tyre factory 50 years ago, with the workers dressed in period costume, was one of the features of the celebration.
During the afternoon, there was also a display of old-time cycling.
The momentous results, both socially and industrially, which have flowed from the invention of the pneumatic tyre, are emphasised in the many tributes published in connection with the celebration—Wireless Through Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.