DUNLOP RUBBER COMPANY.

Free Lance, Volume XVIII, Issue 956, 7 November 1918, Page 19

DUNLOP RUBBER COMPANY.

The Dunlop Rubber Company, of Australasia, Ltd., can be cited as a good example of progress and enterprise. The name "Dunlop" is, of course, a household word. When anyone hears it, sees it, or thinks it, there appears a mental picture of the Tyre which not only made the bicycle a practicable, inexpensive, and pleasureable means of locomotion, but which, in its later developments, rendered possible the motor-car also. Yet there may be still some who are not yet fully apprised of the fact that for the last eighteen years the Dunlop Rubber Company, of Australasia, Ltd., besides the manufacture of their celebrated Cycle Tyres (First in 1888 —Foremost ever since) and tyres for any carriage you can travel in from the cradle 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 Company, which holds all the parent, the English concern's patents, trade marks, and trading rights for the whole of Australasia, now uses capital in the business amounting to over £1,250,000, 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. Its goods cannot be sold elsewhere. If they are not "up to the mark" they cannot be shipped 13,000 miles away to "Foreign" or "Colonial" markets. They are, so to speak, made on the buyer's doorstep.

The Dunlop Rubber Company has built up a great industry in these Southern lands. At its Mills at Montague, Melbourne, which stands over a ground area of over six acres, over 1800 workpeople are employed under conditions which cannot be bettered in any particular in any part of the world. Yet, although the rates of wages paid the operatives are higher than elsewhere, so high is the standard of education, intelligence and adaptability in these young Dominions, that the efficiency of their labour is high also. And they are operating a plant which

comprises the newest and most perfect machines for the manufacture of Rubber Goods which human ingenuity has yet produced; and which is capable of turning out as much as two hundred tons of rubber ware per week/ and every ounce of it up to the value which the name "Dunlop" calls for.

Wonderfully fine and varied are the Dunlop Manufactures—Tyres of all kinds, Rubber in Sheets, Rubber in 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, G-loves, Corks, Bandages, Studs, Springs, Buffers, Bands, Plugs, Valves, Washers, Ebonite Goods, etc., etc. These are some of the articles for the use of Australasians made at the Company's celebrated factory satisfactorily.

We have just perused a small brochure "All about Rubber," being a short description of its production and manufacture, a very compendious and most interesting little souvenir, which the Company will be happy to post to any of our readers on application.

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 the city, being rigM alongside the Montague Railway Station, the first on the Port Melbourne line. There all visitors are welcome, and a competent cicerone is always ready to conduct them through its well-ordered mazes. All the stages o'f rubber-manufacture are laid down before them, from the washing of the crude rubber to where the giant presses and vulcanizers give forth their products steaming hot. The whole makes a journey both interesting and instructive, and not a little astonishing.

The Dunlop Rubber Company, of Australasia, Ltd., have their Wellington Warehouse at 95, Courtenay Place, and their Christchurch Warehouse at 116, Worcester Street, and their Auckland Warehouse at 62 Fort Street; while in Australia they have branches in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Launceston, and, as before mentioned, the Mills are at Montague, Melbourne.

No one who attended the Manawatu Show, at Palmerston North, could fail to have been attracted and impressed by the "Dunlop" Exhibit in No. 3 Hall, where a fine display of their varied manufactures in Rubber was on view, including the new Dunlop "White Tread Grooved and Red Tread Railroad Motor and Motor Cycle Tyres, which are giving New Zealand motorists such fine service and cheap mileage. Get a Price List there or write to any of their New Zealand Depots for one. It will pay you.