DUNLOP RUBBER COMPANY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 31, 31 October 1918, Page 8

DUNLOP RUBBER COMPANY

The Duulop Rubber Company, of Australasia, . Ltd., can be cited as a good examplo 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 plea-sureablo .means of locomotion, but whichi in its later developments, rendered possible the motorcar also. Yet there may bo still eomo who are not yet fully apprised of the fact that for tho last eighteen years the Dunlop Rubber Company, of Australasia, Ltd., besides the manufacture of their celebrated Cycle Tires (First in ISBS—Foremost ever 6ince) and lyres for (any earrioge you can travel in from the cradle.to the grave—Motor-cars, Motor Lorries, Motor Cycles, Cabs, Buggiea, 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, the English, concern's patents, trafle marks, and trading rights for the whole of Australasia, now uses capital in tho business amounting to over .£1,250,000, alt of Australian and New Zealand investment. With this amount, and the goodwill involved in the name "Dunlop" at stftke, operating in a market wholly confined to the Australian States and New Zealand, this company must make quality tneir first aim. Its goods cannot, be sold elsewhere.. If they are not "up.to the mark" they cannot be shipped 18,000 miles away to "Foreign' , or "Colonial" markets. They are, so to speak, made on the buyer's doorstep. The Dunloj) Eubber Company has. built up a great industry in. thea> southern I'knds. At its 'mills/at Montague, Melbourne, which stands over a ground area of. over six acres,.' over 1800 workpeople are employed under conditions which cannot be bettered in any particular in any part of tho world. .' Yet, although the rates of wages paid'the operatives are- higher than elsewhere, so high is the standard of education, intelligence, and adaptability in these young Dominions, that the efficiency of their labour is high also. And they are operating a plant ■fehich comprises the newest and most I perfect machines for the manufacture of Bubber 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 every ounoe of it up to the value which the name "Dunlop" calls for. ■ ■ Wonderfully fine and varied are the Durdop Manufactures—Tyres of all kinds, Bubber in Sheets, Bubber in coils of cord and tubing, Bubber in Rolls; Hose of all kinds, Boot Heels and Soles; Hot-water Bags, Football Bladders,' Tennis Balls. Jar.and Bottle Rings, Engine Packing, Belting of all kinds, Mats and Matting, Waterproofs, Tobacco Pouches, Wringer Hollers, Milking Machine Eequisites, Gloves, Corks, Bandages, Studs, Springs, Buffers, Bands, Plugs, Valves, Washers, Ebonite Goods, etc., etc. These are some of the articles for the uso of Australasians made at the company's celebrated Mills.

We have just perused a small brochure "All About Rubber," being a short description of its production and manufacture, a very compendious and most interesting little souvenir, which the company will be happy to post to any of our readers on application.

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 tx> pay a visit to this Mill, which is only a short distance from the city, being right alongside the Montague Railway Station, tho first on «/ie Port Melbourne line. There all visitors, ere welcome, and a competent cicerone is always ready to conduct them through its well-ordered mazes. All the etages of rubber-manufacture are laid down before them, from the washing of the crude rubber to where the giant presses and vulcanizers give forth their.products steaming hot. The whole makes a journey both interesting and instructive, and not a little astonishing. The Dunlop Rubber Company, of Australasia, Ltd., have their Wellington Warehouse at 95 Courtenay Place, and their Christchurch Warehouse at 116 Worcester Street, and thoir Auckland Warehouse. at 62 Fort Street; whilo in Australia they havo .branches in . Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, and. Launce3ton, and, as before mentioned, tho Mills are at Montague, Melbourne.

No one who attends the Manawatu Show, at Palmereton North, should fail to visit the "Dunlop" Exhibit in No. 8 Hall, where a fine display of their varied manufactures in rubber can be inspected, including the new Dunlop Whito Tread Grooved and Bed Trend Railroad Motor and Motor Cycle Tyres, which are giving New Zealand motorists such fine- service and cheap mileage. Get a Price List thero or write to any of their New Zealand Denote for one. Ji will pay you".—(Published by arrangement.)