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Dunlop is a brand of tyre originally produced by the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company from the end of the 19th century, taking its name from John Boyd Dunlop. The brand is used for many other products made from rubber or with rubber components and some with a looser connection to rubber. Ownership of the brand has become fragmented over the years.
In 2016, it was announced that Sumitomo would commence the second phase of its US$ 131 million investment for the upgrade and expansion of its Dunlop tyre manufacturing plant in Ladysmith, South Africa. [12] Until May 2014, Goodyear Dunlop occupied a compact part of the Fort Dunlop site in Birmingham as its UK office. In the UK, the company ...
Sumitomo Rubber South Africa manufactures the Dunlop, Sumitomo and Falken passenger car tyre brands in Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal. The Ladysmith plant began to produce Dunlop truck and bus radial tyres in July 2018, following the second of two large investments by Sumitomo Rubber Industries to upgrade and modernise the plant.
Dunlop Ltd. (formerly Dunlop Rubber) [1] was a British multinational company involved in the manufacture of various natural rubber goods. Its business was founded in 1889 by Harvey du Cros and he involved John Boyd Dunlop who had re-invented and developed the first pneumatic tyre: he invented the first practical pneumatic tyres for his child's tricycle.
Originally introduced in early 1968 as the Roadmaster K81 rear tyre [6] by Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd, [7] the tyre was renamed "TT100" because it was the first production tyre to reach a lap speed of 100 mph over the Isle of Man TT race course when Malcolm Uphill rode his works Thruxton Bonneville to victory in 1969 with a fastest lap of 100.37 mph during the 750 cc class production race.
Goodyear Dunlop Sava Tires is a Slovenian tyre and other rubber related products' manufacturer, and a subsidiary of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. It is located in Kranj , Slovenia . The company was formed in 1998 under the name Sava Tyres d.o.o., although tyre manufacturing had started in 1920.
In 2013, it disposed of the Dunlop brand in Africa along with most of the South African operation in a sale to Sumitomo Rubber Industries of Japan. [16] The very same year, it started its Global R&D Centre, in Enschede, the Netherlands. [17] In 2015, Apollo Tyres bought Germany's Reifencom tyre distributor for €45.6 million. [18]
Dunlop Aircraft Tyres was established in 1910 as part of Dunlop Ltd. (formally Dunlop Rubber), which itself had been founded by pneumatic tyre pioneer John Boyd Dunlop in Belfast, Ireland, in 1888. It was Dunlop Ltd., the original company, who designed the brakes for Concorde and had also invented Maxaret , the world's first anti-lock braking ...