WOOLSTON FACTORY
2m. Battery Cases
The Woolston factory of Dunlop (New Zealand), Ltd., yesterday manufactured its two millionth motor-vehicle battery casing, said the factory’s general manager (Mr J. M. Randles).
The manufacture of battery casings began at the factory in 1943 as a war-time measure for vital Army supplies, he said. The company has developed this industry till today it produced from 150,000 to 200,000 battery casings a year. An interesting feature of the industry, said Mr Randles, was that 90 per cent of the content of the battery cases was a carbon filler derived from coal from the Roa mine on the West Coast. He said in 1961 the company became the first manufacturers to introduce high impact-resistance battery cases in New Zealand to replace the brittle type of battery case made of regenerated rubber. Mr Randles said that Dunlop’s Woolston factory would produce its two millionth bicycle tyre shortly. This production had been achieved in 20 years.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30561, 2 October 1964, Page 14
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