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" To our clumsy regulation boots we nailed strips of rubber, usually bits of old bicycle tires (sic) ..."
40 years of Scotland Yard - Fred. Wensley
40 years of Scotland Yard - Fred. Wensley
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Presumably from Dunlop tyres.Originally posted by drstrange169 View Post
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.Comment
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Goodyear.Comment
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Oops,Dunlop made the first tyre in Belfast in 1888.Comment
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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.Comment
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First pneumatic tyre, that is....bicycle tyres had existed for a long time before this but were simply solid rubber strips.Originally posted by DJA View Post
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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.Comment
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Reminds me of handling Michelin's first assymetrical car tyre in 1967.It was a 145x10 for a Mini.Originally posted by Enigma View PostI 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.
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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