THE OLDEST PRODUCTION DUNLOP TYRE?
17th August 1951, Page 45
17th August 1951
Page 45
Page 45, 17th August 1951
— THE OLDEST PRODUCTION DUNLOP TYRE?
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Keywords :
Scottish Inventors, John Boyd Dunlop, Dunlop, Tire, Bicycle, Dunlop Rubber, André Michelin
I N the Castle Museum here, we have a rival to John Boyd Dunlop's first pneumatic tyre,. which I see has gone to the Festival of Britain in London from the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. Ours is, I think. the oldest of his pneumatic tyres to be commercially produced. It is on a bicycle which belonged to the late Thomas Humber a pioneer of the cycle trade who, in 1890, built a bicycle weighing only 23 lb., which Dunlop himself described as a masterpiece of engineering. Among three inscriptions on our model is one which runs "The Patent DunlopWelch Multiflex Pneumatic Tyre"; for the Dunlop company, I believe, took over the Welch business.
Nottingham. W. WRENCH.