Demand Dunlop!

Free Lance, Volume XV, Issue 817, 25 February 1916, Page 19

Demand Dunlop!

Encourage Australasian Industry. The Dunlop Rubber Company of Australasia, Ltd., can be cited as a fine example of progress and enterprise. Tlie name "Dunlop" is, of course, a household word. It conjures up a mental picture of the tyre which not only made the bicycle a practicable, inexpensive, and pleasurable means of locomotion, but which, in its later developments, rendered possible the motor ear also. Yet there may be still some who are not yet fully apprised of the fact that for the last fifteen years the -Dunlop Rubber Co. of Australasia, Ltd., besides the manufacture of their celebrated cycle tyres (("First in 188S- - Foremost ever since") and tyres for nny carriage .you can travel in from the crade to the grave—motor cars, motor lorries', motor cycles, cabs, buggies., coaches, perambulators, trucks, and aeroplanes—turn out vast quantities of all and every kind of rubber goods now demanded by advancing civilisation. This Compan}-. which hold all theparent, the English concern's patents, trade marks and trading rights for the whole of Australasia, now use capital in the business amounting to over £750,000, all of Australian and New Zealand investment. With this amount, and the goodwill involved in the name "Dunlop" at stake, operating in a market wholly confined to the Australian States and New Zealand, this Company must make quality their first aim. The Dunlop Rubber Co. have built up a great industrv ir> theSb southern lands. At their mills at Montague, Melbourne, which stand over a ground area of over six acres, over 1400 work people are employed. The plant comprises the most modern machines for the manufacture of x-übber goods which human ingenuity has yet produced, and is capable of turning out as much as two hundred tons of rubber ware per week. The Dunlop Rubber Co. fill the rubber requirements of the Governments of the Commonwealth and of all the Australian States' and New Zealand. Most of the municipalities, harbour boards, mines ,and manufactories in Australasia have found it to be eminently more satisfactory to obtain their rubber supplies of Australasian manufacture than to import them from abroad. Moreover, they have the great satisfaction of supporting and expanding an important local industry. At the Company's stand in the main thoroughfare of th e Patriotic Exhibition is set out a wonderfully fine and varied display of Dunlop manufactures: Tyres of all kinds, rubber in sheets, rubber is coils of cord and tubing, rubber in rolls, hose of all kinds, boot heels and soles, hot water bags, football bladders, tennis balls, jar and bottle rings, engine packing, belting of all kinds, mats and matting, waterproofs, tobacco pouches, wringer rollers, milking machine requisites, gloves, corks, bandages, studs, springs, buffers, bands, plugs, valves, washers, ebonite goods, etc., etc. There are some of the articles for the use of Australasians made at the Company's celebrated manufactory. Every caller at the Dunlop exhibit will be presented with a small brochure "All About Rubber, 1 ' being a short description of its production and manufacture, a compendious and most interesting little souvenir. A tour through the great mill at Montague, Melbourne, is a liberal education in the science of economical production. No New Zealander visiting Melbourne should fail to pay a visit to this mill, which is only a short distance from til® city There all visitors are welcome, and a competent cicerone is always ready to conduct them through its well-ordered mazes. The Dunlop Rubber Co. of Australasia, Ltd., have their Wellington warehouse at 95, Courtenay-place. and the Christchurch warehouse at 116, Worces-ter-street, while in Australia they have branches at Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane. Adelaide, Perth, and Launceston. and, as before mentioned, th e mills are at Montague, Melbourne. Take Your Place among the Nations ! Help to Build a Greater Britain! » * « « A Progressive Industry. Commenced nine years ago in an outhouse 20ft by 12ft, with one small 10gallon. copper boiler and a fortnightly output of 210 tins, the Radium Polish business has steadily grown until now the floor space occupied by the factory and offices is about 4000 square • feet, and the steam jacketed, blending and mixing pans have a total of 360 gallons. The annual output of tins, if placed side by side would reach fmnearly 100 miles, and if placed one step apart, a man would have to walk much more than 1000 miles, or farther than from one end of New Zealand to the other, before coming to the end of them. The polish produced would be sufficient to cover 20.000 acres of floor space and shoe leather, or if placed on boots alone would polish nearly 50,000.000 pairs, so that now the Radium

Polishes have taken their place as one of the leading manufactures of the Dominion. The addition some two years ago of the Radium Patent Easy Opening Dent marked another point in the development of the business, as this excellent device has proved itself a blessing to all boot and floor polish users in doing away with the old-time difficultv of removing the lids from polish tins. The latest addition to the factory is

The Comprehensive Rubber Goods Exhibit of the Dunlop Rubber Company of Australasia Ltd., 95, Courtenay Place, Wellington.

BRANCHES ALSO AT CHRISTCHURCH, SYDNEY, BRISBANE, ADELAIDE, PERTH, AND LAUNCESTON HEAD OFFICE : MELBOURNE. MILLS : MONTAGUE. MELBOURNE.

an up-to-date plant for the manufacture of Metal Cream Polish, including an electric automatic filling machine, which fills and Aveighs containers to the fraction of an ounce- as fast as operators can carry tins to and from the machine. The mottor, "Keep the Quality Up," that the business commenced with is still rigidly adhered to, and the public can depend that in using the Radium goods they are getting the best value that money can buy.

Wellington's Oldest Piano Firm. The distinction of being the oldest piano firm m Wellington belongs to F. • w-^ y '. d -> show-rooms are m. V\ ilhs-street, and who makes a prominent dispiay of British-made instruments m the Exhibition. This firm was established 35 years ago by Mr F J. Pinny and it attributes its continued long and successful record to the fact that it has always pinned its faith to British-made pianos. German pianos were stocked to a limited extent prior to the war, because there was a demand for them, but the firm has always urged upon its buyers that British pianos are and always have been better than the "Made-in-Germany" article. Being an all-British firm, with its capital all subscribed in New Zealand, F. J. Pinny, Ltd., claim the attention of prospective purchasers of pianos. It stocks several makes of the best British instruments, also organs gramophones, records, etc. The exhibition is one of the most attractive in the Town Hall. British General Electric Co., Ltd. A Prominent Exhibit. Adjacent to the platform and prominent among the exhibits are the stands of the British General Electric Co., Ltd., and in view of the fact that this firm is the New Zealand Branch of both the G.E.C. (the largest British Electric Manufacturers), and also Pirelli and Co. (the famous Italian Rubber House), the position is well warranted. From the excellence of the varied exhibits that are staged, both of Electric Appliances, Osram Lamps; and Pirelli tyres (Motor Car, Motor Cycle and Cycle) we strongly advise all parties interested in these goods to visit the Company's Showrooms at 8, Willestonstreet.