The first practicable pneumatic tyre was tetted On a Mmall "aicyan A child' $ tricycle was the first vehicle to travel on pneumatic tyres_ That was 58 years ag0 in 1888 when John Boyd Dunlop, tired of being jolted in his dog-cart; thought of an air-filled tube With sheet rubber 1/32 inch thick he made a tube, inflated it with a football Pump, and secured it to a wooden disc; with a covering strip of linen. The first Dunlop tyre _ and the world's first practicable pneumatic tyre was ready for the initial test. Dunlop next made two more tyres and fitted them to the wheels of his son'$ tricycle in the backyard with complete success: Dunlop made the first practicable pneumatic tyre the name Dunlop is scill the last word in tyres: DunLOP meGmA Leadstshih im Rullen 1 B Dunbof D4.12 7
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 380, 4 October 1946, Page 20
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141Page 20 Advertisement 2 New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 380, 4 October 1946, Page 20
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