SOME OF THE EXHIBITS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3127, 4 July 1917, Page 11

SOME OF THE EXHIBITS

DEMAND DUNLOI' Everyone who visits tho Hawera Winter Show should seo tho wouder'tii.lly varied and interesting exhibit of tyres ami rubber goods shown by tho Dunlop Kubber Company. All tho goods exhibited an iiKiniiiuciurcd by that well-known company, whoso namo .s tho standard for quality.

Tho JJunlop Rubber Company of Australasia, Ltd., can bo cited jus a good example- of progress and enterprise. The namo "Dunlop" is, of cour.se, a household word. When anyono hears it, sees it, or thinka it, thero appears a montal picturo of the tyro which not only mndo tho bicyclo a practicable, inexpensive, and plea-surenblo means of locomotion, but which, in its later developments, rendered possible tho motor-car also. "Yet thero may bo still some who aro not yet fully apprised, of tho fact that for tho last sixteen years tho Dunlop Eubber Company of Australasia, Ltd., besides the manufacture of their celebrated cycle tyre 3 (first in 188S—foremost ever since) and tyres for any carriage you can travel in from tbo cradle to the grave-motor-cars, motor loTries, moto-oyoles, cabs, buggies, coaches, perambulators, trucks, and aeroplanes—turn out vast quantities of all and every kind of rubber, goods now demanded by advancing civilisation.

This company, which holds all the parent, tho English concern's, patents, trade, marks, and.trading righfr. for tho whole of Australasia,- now uses capital in the business amounting lo over -£1,250,000. all of Australian and New Zealand investment. With I his amount, and the goodwill involved in tho name "Dunlop" at stake, operating in a market wholly confined, to the Australian State.-, and New Zealand, this company must make quality their first aim. Its goods cannot be sold elsewhere. If they ore not. "up to tho mark" they caunot be shipped 18,000 miles away to "foreign" or ' colon, ial" markets. They are, so lo speak, made on tho'buyer's doorstep. The Dunlop Rubber Company has built up a great industry in. thcao southern lands. At its mills at Montague, Melbourne, which stand over a ground area of over sit acres, over 1400 workpeople aro employed under conditions which cannot be'bettered in any particular in any part of tho world. Tel, although tho rates of wages paid tlio operatives are higher than elsewhere, so high is tho standard of education, intelligence, _ and adaptability in these young Dominions, that the ellicioney of their labour is,high also. And they aro operating i plant .vhich comprises tho newest and most perfect machinea for the manufacture- ot 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, ™*<"™l dunce of it up to the valine which tho name "Dunlop' calls for. . Wonderfully fine, and varied are the Dunlop manufactures-tyres of all kinds, rubber in'sheets, rubber in coils of cord and tubing, rubber in rolls; hose ot au kinds, boot -heels and soles; -hohratw bags, football bladders, tennis balls, jar and bottle rings, engine packing, belting of all kinds, mats and matting, Materproofs, tobacco pouches, wringer rollers, milking machine requisites, cloves coiks, bandages, studs, springs, buffers,-hands, nil™ valves, washers, ebonite goods, etc.: etc.These are some of the arheks tor the use of Australasians made at tho company's celebrated manufactory. A small brochure. "All About Buhber being a'short description of lis production a.nd manufacture, ts a very compendious and most, interesting: little ™uvenir, which the company mil be happy to post lo any of our readers on apP)}^ 1 ' 0 ": A tour through the great mill at Monbmie, Melbourne, is a'liberal education in"the science of economical production. No New Zoalander visit ng Melbourne should fail to pay .™ to tins mill, which is only a short distance -from tl 0 ntv, being right alongside the MonUgua railway station, tho first on .tlio Port Melbourne line. There all. visitors are welcome, and a competent cicerone is always ready to conduct them through its well-ordered mazes. AU the stages of, .rubber manufacture aro laid down before them, from the washing of tnecrude rubber lo where the giant presses andvulcanisers give forth their products steaming hot. Tho whole mokes a journey both interesting and instructive, and not. a littlo astonishing. The Dunlop Rubber Company of Australasia, Ltd., have their Wellington warehouse at 95, Courtonay Place, and their Christchurch warehouse at 116 Worcester Street, and their Auckland warehouse at 62 Fort Street; while in Australia they have branches at Melliouirne. Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, and Launc'estoji, and, as before -mentioned, the mills are at Montague, Melbourne. Do not fail to write for a price list of the new Dunlop White Tread Motor Tyro which is giving marvellous results in miles for money—(Published by Arrangement.)