RUBBER HEELS
A YOUNG MAN’S INVENTION. One day about a quarter of a century ago, we read, a young man had a job in a factory where heavy machinery jarred the whole building, including those who worked in it. The young man was not robust, and did not like the jar of the machinery, so one day he brought a rubber mat to the factory and stood on it. At once he found relief. After several days somebody stole his mat, so he got two pieces of rubber and nailed them on his heels.
The name of the young man was O’Sullivan. He was the inventor of rubber heels, and to-day his firm is one of the biggest manufacturers of rubber heels in the world.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11934, 28 January 1936, Page 3
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