The Cycle Race that changed the World 4 ZN When John Boyd Dunlop, founder of the Dunlop Company, made the frst practicable pneumatic tyre in 1888 little did he think that his invention would revolutionise road transport; it remained for an obscure sports meeting near Manchester, England,tofurnish convincingproofoftheir value. At that meeting in the late summer of 1889 three strangers from Ireland the du Cros brothers-~riding cycles fitted with the frst Dunlop air-filled tyres defeated the rest of the feld, including some of the best pro- fessional riders of the day, who were relying on the solid rubber tyres then in vogue: Finishing first, second and third, the du Cros brothers began a revolution in road locomotion_ Those first Dunlop tyres changed the history of world transport: Today, Dunlop tyres are still the standard by which all tyres are judged: DunLOP {BDubob meGmA Ieadshhih im Rullen D.47.12
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 382, 18 October 1946, Page 33
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