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  • #16
    " To our clumsy regulation boots we nailed strips of rubber, usually bits of old bicycle tires (sic) ..."

    40 years of Scotland Yard - Fred. Wensley
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    • #17
      Originally posted by drstrange169 View Post
      " To our clumsy regulation boots we nailed strips of rubber, usually bits of old bicycle tires (sic) ..."

      40 years of Scotland Yard - Fred. Wensley
      Presumably from Dunlop tyres.
      Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.

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      • #18
        Goodyear.
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        • #19
          Oops,Dunlop made the first tyre in Belfast in 1888.
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          • #20
            I was about to suggest they had Dunlop on the right boot and Goodyear on the left, but the different tread patterns might have caused them to walk in circles.
            Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.

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            • #21
              Originally posted by DJA View Post
              Oops,Dunlop made the first tyre in Belfast in 1888.
              First pneumatic tyre, that is....bicycle tyres had existed for a long time before this but were simply solid rubber strips.
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              • #22
                Suspect garden hose would have been used by the police in 1888,not tyres or tubes.

                In the tyre/industrial rubber timeline,that is what John Dunlop was first recognised for.

                Thomas Hancock and Charles Goodyear had patented rubber vulcanization mid 1845.
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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Enigma View Post
                  I was about to suggest they had Dunlop on the right boot and Goodyear on the left, but the different tread patterns might have caused them to walk in circles.
                  Reminds me of handling Michelin's first assymetrical car tyre in 1967.It was a 145x10 for a Mini.

                  Was employed by Pirelli's distributor in Melbourne.We had hold of one before AP Sutherlands,Michelin's distributor down here.
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