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The Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Factory, the world's first pneumatic tyre factory, was built in the area in 1889. [8] [9] A fire broke out at Moore & Co's garage on Stephen Street on 15 July 1970, one of the 1970 arson attacks thought to have been carried out by the Ulster Volunteer Force. [10]
John Boyd Dunlop (5 February 1840 – 23 October 1921) was a Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon who spent most of his career in Ireland. Familiar with making rubber devices, he invented the first practical pneumatic tyres for his child's tricycle and developed them for use in cycle racing.
It is a major petrol retailer in Ireland, and operates convenience stores and motorway service areas. Applegreen's headquarters are based in Park West Business Park in Dublin, Ireland. [5] In 2018, Applegreen purchased the majority of UK motorway service area operator Welcome Break for €361.8m. [6]
The crash was caused by a faulty tyre on the wheel of the second coach, which broke just north of the station. Although damage to the train and platforms was quite severe it remained upright, and the fact that the crash occurred where it did, and on a Saturday evening when traffic was relatively light, resulted in only walking wounded.
ATS Euromaster Ltd. is the British affiliate of the European tyre service provider Euromaster, which is a subsidiary of the tyre manufacturer Michelin. ATS Euromaster was established in 1965, and has a network of service centres throughout the United Kingdom.
William Harvey du Cros (19 June 1846 – 21 December 1918) [1] was a Dublin-born financier who became the founder of the pneumatic tyre industry by supporting development of the innovations of John Boyd Dunlop and mass-producing Dunlop's tyres.
It operates public service obligation contracts with transport operators, including Córas Iompair Éireann, Transport Infrastructure Ireland and private operators. It was originally intended that the Railway Procurement Agency would, like the Dublin Transportation Office, be subsumed into the NTA, but a lobbying campaign by the agency led to ...
Aircoach, a private operator, does however operate a competing Dublin to Belfast Express service via Dublin Airport. According to an Irish Times article in September 2022, 14.3% of national journeys in the Republic of Ireland were undertaken by bus, compared to the European average of 8.8%. However, this may be partly due to the lack of ...