A Great British Tyre Factory.
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-LIVERY ONE is aware of the fact vithat.an advanced industrial organization lies behind the Dunlop tyre; but only those who have actually visited the parent works of the company at Birmingham can realize the size of • tho' undertaking. The opportunity to visit these works was recently afforded the journalists attending the International Conference' of the Press, held in London, and it was accepted by a party of about 200. journalists, representing in all 15 .different nationalities.
The international character • of the visitors was -very appropriate in connection with a Visit to a concern the • products of which are Sold 'all over the world. This was :one'. of the . points
Mentioned by gir George Beharrell in the course of an interesting speech aft-pr the luncheon, at which he presided as chairman in the absence of Sir Eric Geddes through indisposition. Other points mentioned by Sir George Beharrell were the difficulty of coping with no fewer than 158 different tyre sizes; the improvement in riding comfort induced by low-pressure tyres for private cars and pneumatics for commercial vehicles, and the greatly reduced wear and tear of the roads due to the general use of such tyres.
The visitors were divided into parties for the purpose of inspecting the works, and were enabled to obtain a good idea Of the 'careful scientific control extendedthroughout all the many and complex processes involved in tyro manufacture. They were able to see the whole sequence of operations, from the reception of the raw rubber to the moulding and curing of the tress, but little information could be obtained concerning the new anode process, which has been fully described in The Commercial Motor, this being, presumably, due to the fact that it is only as yet in it infancy.
A special train took the visitors 'from London to Birmingham and back, the • remainder of the journey to• Fort Dun-: lop being very comfortably made in a fleet of the well-known Midland " Red" saloon buses, all of which, incidentally, were equipped with Dunlop pneumatics.