"DUNLOPS" AT PALMERSTON

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2918, 2 November 1916, Page 7

"DUNLOPS" AT PALMERSTON

A FINE EXHIBIT. One of.'tlj& chief features of the splendid exhibit of tho Dunlop Rubber Company at tho . Palmerston Show is an excellent display of thoir new white tread motor tyres. There are three designs, grooved, non-skid, and threeribbed, and judging by the results clairacd for them there is little doubt that tho Dunlop white tread will find itself in great demand by motorists throughout the Dominion. Tho results achieved by these covers up to tho present are extraordinarily good, and without exception have given entire satisfaction. Callers at tho stand will bo shown sections, also a display of rubber goods, the like of which, it is claimed, have never before been displayed in the Dominion.

The Dunlop Rubber Company, of Australasia, Ltd., can bo 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 bioyolq a practicable, inexpensive and pleasurable means of locomotion, but which, its later developments, rendered possible the motorcar also. Yot there may still be some who are not yet fully apprised of tho fact that for the last 16 years the Dunlop Rubber Co. of Australasia, Ltd., besides the manufacture of their cele-

brated cycle tyro (first in 1888) and tyres for any carriago you can travel in from the cradle to tho grave—motorcars, motor-lorries, motor-cyclcs, cabs, buggies, coaches, perambulators, trucks, and aoroplanes—turn, out vast quantities of all and every kind of rubber goods now demanded by advancing civilisation. This company, which holds all the parent, the English concern's patonts, trade marks and trading rights for tho whole of Australasia, now uses capital in tho business amounting to over £1,250,000, all of Australian and New Zoaland investment. With this amount, and tho goodwill involved in the name "Dunlop" at stake, operating iii a market wholly oonfined to the Australian.and New Zealand, this company must make quality tho first aim. Its goods cannot be sold elsewhere. If they aro'noli "up to tho mark" they cannot be shipped 13,000 miles away to "foreign" or. "colonial" markets. They are, so to spoak, made on tho buyer's doorstep. >•

Tho Dunlop Jtubber 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, over 1400 work people are employed under conditions which cannot bo bettered in any part of tho world. Yet; although ' tho ' rato s of wages paid the operatives are higher than elsewhere, so high is the standard of education, intelligence, and adaptability in theso young Dominions, that tho efficiency of their labour is high also. They aro operating a plant which comprises the newest and most perfect machines for tho manufacture of rubber goods which human ingenuity has ypt produced, and which i 6 capable of turning out as much as two hundred tons of- rubber waro per week, and every ounco of it up to the value which tho name "Dunlop" calls for.

At the company's stand in the main building at the showground is set out a wonderfully fine and varied display of Dunlop manufactures, tyreß of all. kinds, rubber in sheets, rubber in coils of cord and tubing, rubber in rolls, hose of all kinds, boot heels and soles, hot water hags, football ten-

nis balls, jar and bottle rings, ongine packing, belting of all kinds, mats and matting, waterproofs, tobacco pouches, wringer rollers, milking machine requisites, gloves, corks, bandages, studs, springs, buffers, bands, plugs, valv«s, washers, obonito goods, etc., etc. Theso are some of the articles for tho 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.

' A tour through tho great mill at Montague, Melbourne, is a liberal education in the scienco of economical, production. No New Zealander visiting Melbourne should fail to pay a visit to' which is only a short distance from tho city, being right alongside tho Montaguo railway station, tho first on tho Port Melbourne line. There all visitors aro weloome, and a competent cicerono is . always ready to conduct them through its well ordered mazes. All tho stages of rubber manufacture aro laid before visitors, from the washing of tho crudo rubber to whore the giant presses and vulcanisers givo forth their products-steaming hot, The whole makes a journey both interesting and instructive, and not a littlo astonishing. The Dunlop Rubber Co. of Australasia, Ltd., havo their Wellington warehouse at 95 Courtcnay Place, and their Christchurch warehouse at 116 Worcester Street, while in Australia they have branohes at Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adolaido, Perth, and Launccston, and as before inpntioned the mills arc at Montague, Melbourne. I)o not fail to inspect new "Dunlop" White Tread Motor Tyre, .which is giving. marvellous results in miles for money.—(Published by- arrangement.)