DEMAND DUNLOP

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3117, 22 June 1917, Page 8

DEMAND DUNLOP

liverjronc who visile the ralnicLvstdn Winter tihow should see the 'wondcriuilly varied ami interesting exhibit of tyres and rubber {foods islioivn by the Duiilop Kuljbcr Company. All tho Roods oxhibiicJ are manufactured by that well-known company, whose namo :s llio standard lor quality. . The .Dunlop liubbcr Company of Australasia, LUI., can bo cited as a good example of progress and oulerpriso. 'J'lib name "Dunlop" is, of course, a household word. Whon anyone hears it, sees it, or thinks it, there appears ft menial picture of the tyre, which, not only made tho bicycle a practicable, inexpensive, .■mil pleasureable means of locomotion, but which, in its later developments, rendered possible tho motor-cav also. Yol, there may bo still bo mo who are not yet fully apprised of the fact that for the last sixteen years tho JJu.nlop Iliibber Company of Australasia, Ltd., besides the manufacture of then- celebrated cycle tyres (first iu ISSS-i'qroniost ever since) and lyres for any carriage you can travel in from the cradle to the grave— motor-cars, motor tarries, molo-cyolcs, cabs buggies, coaches, perambulators, trucks, and aeroplanes-turn out. vast quantities of all and every kind of rubber goods now demanded by advancing civilisation. " .. ~ Thie company, which holds all the parent, tho English concern's, patents, trade marks, and trading rights for the wKolo of Australasia, now uses capital in tho business amounting to over .£1,230,000 all of Australian and New Zealand investment. With this amount, and the ■'oodwill involved in the name Dunlon at stake, operating in a market wholly confined to tho Australian States and New Zealand, this company must make quality their first aim. Its goods cannot bo sofa elsewhere. If they nre not up to the mark" they cannot be snipped 13,000 milea away to "foreign' or ' colonial" markets. They are, so to speak, made on tbe buyer's doorstep. The Dunlop Rubber Company has built up a great industry in these southern lands. At its mills at Montague, Melbourne, which stand over a ground area of over six acres, over 1100 workpeople are employed under conditions which cannot be'bettered in any particular m any part of the world. Yet, although the rates of wages paid the operatives are higher than elsewhere, eo high is the standard of education, intelligence, and adaptability in these young Dominions, that the efficiency of their labour, is high alto. And they are operating a plant Which comprises the newest and most perfect machines for the manufacture of rubber goods which human ingenuity, has vet produced; and which is capable of turniU out as much as two hundred tons of rubber ware per week, and every ounce of'it up to the value which tho namo ."Dunlop" calls for; Wonderfully fine and varied are the Dnnlop manufactures-tyres oM kinds, rubber in sheets, rubber in coils of cord and tUibing, rubber in rolls; hope of all kinds, boot heels and soles; hot-water bac*. football bladders, tennis talis, jar and bottle rings, engine packing, belting, of all kinds, mats and matting, wateiliroofe, tobacco pouches wringer rollers, milking machine requisites gloves, coiks, bandages, studs, springs, buffers, bands, phi"S, valves, washers, ebonite goods, etc etc These aTe some of the articles for the use of Australasians made at the company's celebrated manufactory. A. small brochure. "All About Kubber, l)»in" a short description of its production and manufacture, is a very compendious and most interesting little eonvemr,which the company will be hajopy to post to any of our readers on application. A tour throueh the great null at Mon- ■ fairiie, , Melbourne, is a liberal education , in the science of economical production, j No New tfealander visiting Melbourne should fail to. par a visit to this mill, which is only a short distance from tho /itv bein" . Tight alongside the Mont.itjue j railway station, the first on the Port | Melbourne line. There all visiters are i welcome, and a competent cicerone is nl- | wavs ready to conduct them through its I well-ordered mazes. All the stages of rubber manufacture are laid down be- I '.fore them, from the washing of thecrudn rubber to whero the triant presses and vulcanises ?ivi> forth their products steaminsr hot. The whole mal,'o=, a journey both interesting nmi instructive, a"' , no 1 a littln astonishing. \ Tim Duuloo Piibber Oompai'v of AwIralns'fl. Ltd.. have their Wellington warehouse ■ at 95 Courfenay Place, .nml their Christclnircli at 110 Worcester Street, and their Auckland warehouse nt 02 l''ort Street; whilo in Australia tlipv have branches at Melboun-ne. Sydney', Brisbane, Adolaide, Perth, and Tiauncesto/i. mid, n.s before lnentioiiecl. th» mill? ;ivo at Montague, Melbourne. Tli not fail |p u-i-Hp for n n'-icc list of tho new llunlon White Trend Molnr Tyre, whieh is giving marvellous results in miles for money.—(Published by Arrs.Dgcmont.)