DEMAND DUNLOP!

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2699, 19 February 1916, Page 7

DEMAND DUNLOP!

ENCOURAGE AUSTRALASIAN

INDUSTRY!

A GREAT PLANT

Tho Dunlop Rubber Company of Australasia, Ltd., can be cited as a good example of progress and enterprise. The name "Dunlop" is, of course, a household word. When anyone hears it, sees it, or thinks it, there appears a mental picture of the tyre which not only made the bicycle a practicable, inexpensive, and pleasurable means of locomotion, but which, in its later developments, rendered possible the motor-cars also. Yet there may ho still some who are rut yet fully apprised of tl-.o fact ri-afc for the last fifteen years tho Dunlop T! libber Co. of Australasia, Lid., besides tfie manufacture of their celebmted

cjxile tyros (first in 1888—foremostover since), and tyres for any carriage a person can travel in, from the crndloto the grave—motor-cars, motor lorries, motor cycles, cabs, buggies, ccaches, perambulators, trucks, and aeroplanes —tnm out vast quantities of all and every Mnd of rubber goods now Jemanded by advancing civilisation. This compan}', wluch holds all the patent, £he English concern's patents, trpdt marks, and trading rights for tho whole of Australasia, noir uses capital in the business amounting to over £760,000, all of Australian and New Zealand investment. With this amount,, and the goodwill involved in tlie name "Dunlop" at stake, operating !ii' a market wholly confined to tho Australian States and New Zealand, this company must make- quality their' urst. aim. Its goods cannot be sold elsewhere. If the goods are not "up to the -mark," they cannot be shipped 13,000 miles away to "foreign" or "colonial" markets. They are, so to speak, made on the buyer's doorstep.

A Creat Industry Built Up. The Dunlop Bubber. Co. has built up a great industry in these southern lands. At its mills at Montague, Melbourne, which stand over a ground area of over six acres, more than 1400 workpeople are employed, under conditions which, it is claimed, cannot he bettered in any particular in any part of the world. Yet, although the rates of wages paid the operatives are higher than elsewhere, 60 high is the standard of education, intelligence, and adaptability in these young Dominions that the efficiency of their labour is higli also. And they are operating a plant which comprises the newest and most perfect machines for the. manufacture of rubber goods which human ingenuity has yet produced, and which is capable of turning out as much as two hundred' tons of rubber ware per week, and evory'ounce of it up to the vaiuo which the name "Dunlop" calls for.

The Dunlop Rubber Company fill the rubber requirements of the Govern-' ments of the Commonwealth and of all the Australian States and New Zea-

land. Most of the municipalities, harbour boards, mines, and manufactories in Australasia have found it lo bo eminently moro satisfactory to obtain their rubber supplies of .Australasian manufacture than to import them from abroad. Moreover they have the great satisfaction of supporting and expanding an important industry. And tho establishment of such an industry in our midst is important, for it „ tends to broade:i tho outlook and increase the opportunities of tho community where it is placed. Everyone who buys a Dunlop article is helping in this. And it is to-day more than ever evident that in encouraging such an enterprise ns that of the Dunlop Rubber Company of Australasia, Ltd., not only do m assist in defeating the enemies of ths British race, but tve aid in solidifying and strengthening the position of the free peoples of these lands. Let us help to build a Greator\ Britain, and take our placs among«t the nations.

Stand at the patriotic' Exhibition, At the company's stand, in the main thoroughfare of the Patriotic Exhibition, is sot out a fine and varied display of Dunlop manufactures —tyres of nil kinds, rubber in sheets, rubber in coils of cord and tubing, rubbdi" in rolls, iiose of all kinds, boot; beels an<J soles, hot water bags,'football bladders, t-ennis balls, jar aud bottle rings, engine packing, belting of all kinds, mats and matting, waterproofs, tobacco pouches, wringer rollers, milking-machine rcquisi?os, gloves, corks, bandages, sj.uds, springs, buffers, bands, plugs, valves, washers, ebonite goods etc., etc. These are so.me of the articles for the use of Australasians made at the company's celebrated manufactory.

Every caller at the Dunlop exhibit will be presented with a small brochure "All About Rubber," being a short description of its production and manufacture, a very compendious and most interesting little souvenir.

Great Mill at Montague. A tour through the great mill at Montague, Melbourne, is a liberal education in the science of economical production. No New Zealander visiting Melbourne should fail to pay a visit to this mill, which is only a short distance from the city, being right alongsido tho Montague Railway Station, the first ou tho I'ort Melbourne lino. There all visitors are welcome, and a competent cicerone is always ready to conduct thorn through its well-ordered mazes. All the. stages of rubber manufacture are laid before them, from the washing of the crude rubber to where tho giant presses and vulcanisers give forth their products steaming hdt. Tho wholo makes a journey both interestpig ana instructive, and not a little astonishing. The Dunlop Rubber Co. of Australasia, Ltd., have their Wellington warehouse at 95 Courtenay Place, and their Übrietehurch warehouse at 116 Worcester Street, while in Australia they have brandies at Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, and Launc.eston, and, as before mentioned, tho mills are at Montague, Melbourne. ' TAKE YOUR PLACE AMONG THE NATIONS. '| HELP TO BUILD A GREATER I BRITAIN.